{"id":2235,"date":"2009-04-21T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2009-04-21T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T23:26:00","slug":"results-for-people-when-our-polling-numbers-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2235","title":{"rendered":"Results for People…When our Polling Numbers Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Jack Layton’s “I’m the only man willing to oppose Harper<\/a>” shtick seems to have run its course:<\/a><\/p>\n

OTTAWA \u2014 The House of Commons should spend the next couple of months focusing on reforms to employment insurance and pensions, not electioneering, NDP Leader Jack Leader says.<\/p>\n

It’s a significant change in tactics for Mr. Layton, who portrayed himself as executioner-in-chief of the Harper Conservatives through a raucous winter run that threatened to topple the minority government at every turn.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quite the change<\/a>, eh?<\/p>\n

New Democrats unleashed the first in a series of radio ads Thursday lambasting the newly minted Liberal leader for propping up Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government.
[…]
But the NDP ads drip with withering scorn for Ignatieff’s decision to allow the federal budget to pass, albeit with conditions.<\/p>\n

“Some things just don’t change,” intones a woman in one ad.<\/p>\n

“Another Conservative budget rubber stamped by another Liberal leader. It’s official: Michael Ignatieff failed his first big test as Liberal leader. He’s thrown his lot in with Stephen Harper.”<\/p>\n

The ad portrays NDP Leader Jack Layton as the only political leader who can be trusted to look out for average families.<\/p>\n

“Jack Layton’s the only leader strong enough to stand up to Harper.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Jack Layton’s “I’m the only man willing to oppose Harper” shtick seems to have run its course: OTTAWA \u2014 The House of Commons should spend the next couple of months focusing on reforms to employment insurance and pensions, not electioneering, NDP Leader Jack Leader says. It’s a significant change in tactics for Mr. Layton, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235"}],"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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}