Corcoran is quite right. The grits msm is usually lockstep with their political masters. Not this time. I suspect at least 12 grits will be ill, if there are any non confidence votes, wheteher or not iggy wants them to be.Rarely, maybe never, has a Liberal Leader charged off into a general election with so little support from the media. What did Michael Ignatieff ever do to the punditocracy to deserve this constant drubbing in editorial after editorial, column after column, profile after profile. The only outlet that believes Mr. Ignatieff is on his way to the Canadian prime minister’s office is The New Yorker, and even there Adam Gopnick seemed to be straining to generate reasons for affection and enthusiasm. And now the polls are turning. A staggering 73% of Canadians said an election...
I am happy that HM PM Harper thinks that taxes are intrinsically bad. They are. I do see a need for some aspects of the state so I grudgingly accept some taxes. However the less tax the better. the grits and the other lefties love taxes. They love the control it gives them over the populace and they think they know how to spend our money better than we do. leftie simpson has never met a tax he didn't like except for the GST and now he doesn't want to cut that. The Reverend Jeffrey Simpson, keeper of The Globe and Mail’s firm grasp on conventional gospel, the Al Sharpton of Canadian Liberalism, an old fogie from the day he began writing his Globe column in 1949, knee-jerk anti-Conservative and now fire-and-brimstone preacher of climate doom, champion of carbon controls and higher...
Corcoran correctly writes that Obamessiah will not be able to do much of anything. Thats good.That’s the new Obama reality. You can’t just enact a windfall profits tax on oil companies to generate $1,000 cash rebates to individual Americans. You can’t just rewrite NAFTA and turn it into a U.S. job protection agreement that includes environmental and labour standards. You can’t just announce a withdrawal from Iraq within six months. You can’t help American workers by giving unions more power and eliminate secret ballots.On the economy, the Obama agenda is a maze of contradictions. It decries Bush spending and deficits, and then promises big economic “stimulus” programs to get the economy working again. Can you jump start the U.S. economy with government spending on job...
Terrence Corcoran also is somewhat surprised that the tax cuts are ending this year. As I have said before we need more spending and tax cuts. It is time to cut tax rates in all brackets, even the higher ones!Tories lose tax edgeTerence Corcoran, Financial Post Published: Thursday, January 03, 2008The Prime Minister's strategists appear to have stumbled on a novel election strategy and slogan: "Tory Times are Tough." In year-end interviews, both Stephen Harper and his Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, took what looked like unseemly delight in highlighting economic uncertainty. The United States is in a slump, said Mr. Harper, and it will spill over into Canada. That means fiscal tightness in Canada, a stand-pat fiscal stance, and no room for new tax cuts. Adding to the glooming of the...