{"id":1561,"date":"2007-11-04T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2007-11-04T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T01:02:00","slug":"on-the-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"On the Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tories have pounced on Dion\u2019s somewhat misguided <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">GST<\/span> musings with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservative.ca\/EN\/2444\/#videoPlayer\">new attack ad<\/a>. Apparently Dion has made &#8220;billions of dollars&#8221; in spending promises which is news to me because, outside of the environment, I haven\u2019t really heard <em>any<\/em> promises. We also learn in the ads that <strike>5<\/strike> <strike>4<\/strike> <strike>3.5<\/strike> <strike>10<\/strike> a nebulous number of priorities beats 3 pillars.<\/p>\n<p>As for the ads themselves, yeah it looks like Ben and Rachel put them together, but it&#8217;s still smart politics. With Dion down, might as well keep punching. And for the Tories flush with cash, they can certainly afford to run them.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">ve<\/span> been saying for a long time that the biggest problem with the Liberal Party isn&#8217;t the leadership, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">MPs<\/span>, policy positions, or recent baggage. The biggest problem is the structural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca\/govrel\/news.cfm?story=68385\">inability of the party to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">fundraise<\/span><\/a>. And the most discouraging thing is that there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any sort of plan out there to turn things around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tories have pounced on Dion\u2019s somewhat misguided GST musings with a new attack ad. Apparently Dion has made &#8220;billions of dollars&#8221; in spending promises which is news to me because, outside of the environment, I haven\u2019t really heard any promises. We also learn in the ads that 5 4 3.5 10 a nebulous number [&hellip;]<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","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=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}