tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917457418053046748.post5843171465738199528..comments2023-11-05T07:15:12.693-05:00Comments on blogging a dead horse: "I'm beginning to wonder who the leader is.” Liberals go back to "playing dead"Blogging Horsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814673326602261801noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917457418053046748.post-3569150381617140312008-01-31T01:56:00.000-05:002008-01-31T01:56:00.000-05:00Thanks for the olive branch.http://scottdiatribe.g...Thanks for the olive branch.<BR/><BR/>http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2008/01/30/layton-making-overtures-to-dion-on-afghanistan-position/<BR/><BR/>Can Scott and I be your friends now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917457418053046748.post-38847205380838424332008-01-30T12:46:00.000-05:002008-01-30T12:46:00.000-05:00I'm actually a dissenting New Democrat on this iss...I'm actually a dissenting New Democrat on this issue. I support our mission in Afghanistan, but I acknowledge that there are several legitimate arguments to support the party's opposition to the mission. <BR/><BR/>(That said, I wish the party would use those arguments a little more and drop the sentimental mythology about Canada's "tradition" of Pearsonian peacekeeping. Canada has a military history that predates Suez - and much of that history is about effective and determined warriors.)<BR/><BR/>I'm quite glad that our party has historically tolerated dissent.<BR/><BR/>But I am equally glad that our party has had the cojones to define a position - even if I must dissent.<BR/><BR/>The Liberals, on the other hand, are just playing their old game of being on whatever side of an issue the listener wants them to be on.<BR/><BR/>This is hardly new. The hypocrisy of "conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription" was repeated in reference to BOMARC missiles, universal health care, wage and price controls, free trade, universal child care and the Kyoto Treaty.<BR/><BR/>Face it, folks. There hasn't been a Liberal with principles since Pearson, and there hasn't been a Liberal with the gumption to stand by his principles since Chubby Power. Both Mike and Chubby are long dead - along with whatever integrity may once have existed in the Liberal Party.<BR/><BR/>Clearly the problem for the Liberals is tactical and not ideological. Having no clear position on the issue, they don't know whether to support the government or to abstain.<BR/><BR/>They certainly won't be opposing the government on this issue.Malcolm+https://www.blogger.com/profile/08469936715413110334noreply@blogger.com