{"id":314,"date":"2005-04-23T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=314"},"modified":"2005-04-23T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T20:20:00","slug":"314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Vertigo<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

-You know you\u2019re in campaign mode when innocuous comments by a communications director <\/a>and critique from\u2026Bono<\/a>, become big news. It\u2019s kind of funny, if you think about it. Paul Wells recently posted a link to the \u201cMaking History<\/a>\u201d speech and I remember the buzz at the leadership convention was of whether or not Paul could crack the 200 seat plateau, whether or not we\u2019d win 9 Alberta seats, whether or not he\u2019d be PM for 10 years. Looking bad, Bono\u2019s comment that “About a year from now he’s going to regret tonight<\/em>” was probably the only prediction that came to fruition.<\/p>\n

-For anyone who missed it, Friday\u2019s broooooooaaaaaadcast of Politics <\/a>featured back to back interviews <\/a>with Paul Martin and Stephen Harper. I must say that Martin looked a lot better there than on the 2004 Mad as Hell Tour. He didn\u2019t look that desperate and seemed about 5 years younger than on Thursday night (but, I only say that because he seemed about 80 during that broadcast). He gave fairly credible answers when Don Newman sent some really hard hitting questions his way. Harper seemed defensive but he did make the valid point about Paul Martin’s offer amounting to a “10 month campaign”.<\/p>\n

-This talk of an NDP coalition <\/a>is very interesting. I would have never in a million years thought a government would completely re-write its budget two months after the fact but with the kind of desperation we\u2019ve seen lately, you never know. And why wouldn\u2019t the Liberals want to give the NDP whatever they want? It would push back the election and tell NDP voters who are considering voting Liberal that their own leader approves of Paul Martin. This is a very dangerous game Jack Layton is playing.<\/p>\n

It also raises the very fun to speculate about numbers game. Mike Brock <\/a>points out the obvious fact that commentators everywhere seem to be missing \u2013 there are two sick Conservative MPs. That means 151 Bloc\/Con votes and 151 Lib\/NDP votes. Which means the fate of the house rests with the three independents. Chuck Cadman has said he won\u2019t bring down the government and David Kilgour has said he might. Everyone assumes Carolyn Parrish will vote with the Liberals since her political career and political paycheck both come to an end when this House dies. That means the Liberals would survive\u2026or would they?<\/p>\n

What if Cadman is too sick to make a vote? What if the Tories manage to fly in their two MPs? What if Carolyn Parrish is vindictive and sees this as her chance to be the person who ends Paul Martin\u2019s political career? We might very well be heading towards one of the most exciting votes in the history of the Canadian Parliament.<\/p>\n

-Courtesy of \u201cTrudeau\u2019s Children<\/a>\u201d comes this hilarious picture. Gallows humour seems to be spreading across the Liberal land, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vertigo -You know you\u2019re in campaign mode when innocuous comments by a communications director and critique from\u2026Bono, become big news. It\u2019s kind of funny, if you think about it. Paul Wells recently posted a link to the \u201cMaking History\u201d speech and I remember the buzz at the leadership convention was of whether or not Paul […]<\/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\/314"}],"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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}