{"id":1466,"date":"2007-08-07T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:49:34","slug":"ode-to-anders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Anders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Jackson’s man crush on Rob Anders continues in today’s Sun<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I tell Calgary West MP Rob Anders he is known as the “rock star” of Canadian federal politics.<\/p>\n

“Gee, I can hardly sing, and I can’t play one chord on the guitar,” he answers.<\/p>\n

<\/span>But, in a very real way, Anders is a political tidal wave.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

If he and his strategists spot a riding that can be won by a Conservative candidate they go to bat for them.<\/p>\n

This may well explain why, when some malcontents in his riding launched legal actions to overturn his re-nomination, national party headquarters spent an estimated $250,000 fighting to preserve his status.<\/p>\n

And they won hands down.<\/p>\n

He is just too precious to lose.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I agree — I’ve contended for some time if Harper can win a majority, and he will, he will become a beloved PM of our nation, and will be able to hold the job for as long as he wants. As for the issues, Anders offers this tantalizing aspect.<\/p>\n

“By the next election we will have cut the GST<\/span> to 5%, and at 3% the GST<\/span> would be revenue neutral, giving the rebates to lower income Canadians and business. So we go into the next election promising to abolish the GST<\/span> entirely.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

So there you have it. Anders, a winner all the way, revealing how we can win our entire country back.
<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fawning aside, Anders’ musings on the GST<\/span> are interesting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Jackson’s man crush on Rob Anders continues in today’s Sun: I tell Calgary West MP Rob Anders he is known as the “rock star” of Canadian federal politics. “Gee, I can hardly sing, and I can’t play one chord on the guitar,” he answers. But, in a very real way, Anders is a political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1068],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rob-anders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}