{"id":230,"date":"2005-01-15T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=230"},"modified":"2005-01-15T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T05:02:00","slug":"230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of Ink<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Wells must be snowed in today with his jazz records broken. Either that, or he\u2019s making a last gasp push to win blog of the year<\/a>. He\u2019s gone on a mad posting spree and put up 10, count \u2018em, 10, posts today. Among the highlights:<\/p>\n

1. In depth discussions on Pepe le Pieu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Speaking of skunks, Wells concludes that not much smells <\/a>in the leadership review to date. It\u2019s fairly much the same conclusion I reached <\/a>after starting up the entire topic, although I\u2019d still have preferred getting my damn ballot<\/em><\/strong>. And I\u2019ll still be very suspicious when we see the final numbers. But I guess David Herle is too busy planning clever stunts (\u201chey guys! How about we send Liza Frulla and John McCallum to Harper\u2019s house at 3 in the morning and they can shout insults at him to wake him up<\/em>!\u201d) for the next election. Which, by the way, I really can\u2019t see happening before next fall, at the earliest.<\/p>\n

3. Short sentences that contain their own punchlines<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

They’re sending Joe Volpe in to clean things up.<\/em><\/p>\n

Heh heh. Although I am surprised that none of the eager Parliamentary Secretaries are getting promoted. Surely they\u2019ve all been lobbying hard enough for a seat at the grown-ups table.<\/p>\n

4. Martin sends a letter <\/a>off to Danny Williams which begins, quite predictable with \u201cI have been clear from the very beginning\u201d. At times like this, I really wish there was a Canadian version of the Daily Show. The host could then read that quote and show clip after clip of Martin and the PMO fumbling to get their side of the story out on this.<\/p>\n

5. Finally, we get more on McKenna\u2019s appointment<\/a>. Appointment being the key word since it doesn\u2019t look like it will be reviewed, as promised. To be fair, Martin has been kind of rushed in to filling this position, having been publicly searching for an ambassador for at least 13 months. Wait 13 months and I guess it\u2019s thoughtful review \u2013 wait 14 months to allow a review and people might start calling the guy a ditherer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of Ink Paul Wells must be snowed in today with his jazz records broken. Either that, or he\u2019s making a last gasp push to win blog of the year. He\u2019s gone on a mad posting spree and put up 10, count \u2018em, 10, posts today. Among the highlights: 1. In depth discussions on Pepe […]<\/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\/230"}],"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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}