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Just for the record, here in the US, we have both employment insurance (we call it “unemployment” and employers must pay into it and then – for a while – it pays people who lose their jobs) and welfare.

Oh, and I’m jealous of the fact that your economy isn’t tanking as badly as ours. I should have moved to Canada years ago, when I was first considering it.

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As Summer pointed out, we also have “un”-employment insurance here in the US, though it is paid by employers not by employees.

And it sounds like Ignatieff is pretty much a run of the mill US Democrat. Harper sounds like he’s cribbed the US Republican Party playbook from 1980 up through 2008 as well. Strange – why anyone would want to steal two losing playbooks from US politicians is completely beyond me.

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I think you’ve set a record for the amount of times “Useless Limpdick” has been used in one blog post.

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BlackMage said on June 22nd, 2009 at 6:46 pm

Could be worse. In Australia, we’re having an utterly inconsequential political crisis — ‘Utegate’. It’s the sorta thing that would be considered low-bore on a city council for a town with a five-digit population.

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Oh, hey, I see someone made a Canadian clone of Harry Reid. How delightful.

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Looking at the comments, I can’t help but notice that even Canada’s failures will forever be looked upon as cheap imitations of U.S. failures.

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Ignatieff is biding his time until the fall, in the meantime to raise more money (and he’s raising a lot) and continue organizing.

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Sivi Volk said on June 23rd, 2009 at 12:04 am

Apologies for the cursing.

Godsdamn, could the liberals find another fucking Jean Chretien already? Seriously, after Dion and Michael ‘Torture’s okay as long as we only do it to brown people’ Ignatieff, Paul ‘Laughs like a little girl’-fucking Martin is starting to look like Winston-bleeding-Churchill.

The Liberals need to stop dicking around, join up with the NDP and the Bloc (who are pretty cool apart from the sovereignty thing) and take the Tories down (yes, I really liked the coalition idea from last winter).

Canadian politics are more fun after a pint.

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wyrmsine said on June 23rd, 2009 at 3:09 am

I’d like to see a “What If” Ignatieff supported a vote of no confidence last week…

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How sad to be longing for the days of Paul Martin.

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Harper sounds like he’s cribbed the US Republican Party playbook from 1980 up through 2008 as well. Strange – why anyone would want to steal two losing playbooks from US politicians is completely beyond me.

And that, ladies and gentleman, is Canadian conservative politics in a nutshell.

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Z,

Sounds like, despite the best efforts of Canadian advertising, Canada simply is no more capable of learning from the mistakes of the USA than the people of the USA are.

To me, its the moderates who are really the sickest people of any political system. These assholes sit in the middle and wait and wait for someone on either side of the political spectrum to not only make a stand for something important to that side but also make it “entertaining” for the moderates as well.

And by “entertaining”, I means someone usually has to either shoot someone or get shot themselves. Only then will the sociopathic moderate people feign interest long enough to get up any start talking about the issue at hand.

I mean look at the Christians. These people don’t care about the message of Christ unless they get to talk about how he got nailed to a block of wood and left to die first. If Christ didn’t die in some horrible fashion, no one would have cared about his message. IMO, Judas should be a saint to the moderate people of the world.

St Judas, harbinger of entertainment.

I’m sorry. I think I went off on two different tangents here and so I will stop now. I blame the cold medicine.

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Sorry, I think it’s the extremists who’re more excited by the blood and guts, or at least they’re the ones who call for it at the drop of a hat and over the slightest thing. It’s not the fault of sensible people that the extremists’ incessant, coded raving sounds exactly, to take an example from another recent post here, an Us Weekly “Hot or Not” list.

Extremists are people who look at Eastern philosophy as unprincipled and immature: “YIN OR YANG! YIN OR YANG! CHOOSE NOW, FOREVER!”

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Say, Eric S. Smith, are you the former “Left-Field Marshal” from the good ol’ days of trentu.general?

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Lia: that would make you the Mad Praetor.

Back on topic, I don’t know that going to an election would have been the smart thing to do, anyway. It might have been doable if the Liberal policy shop had put out a detailed economic recovery plan of their own — seriously, what would they have campaigned on otherwise? Ignatieff’s personal charm?

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Zac in Davis said on July 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 pm

Why *do* we call it unemployment insurance? Isn’t that a bit like buying “death insurance”?

Makes you think.

Hey Zenrage, I don’t think the moderates are the most inhuman, but I do think they’re the most baffling. They certainly get the most representation from our lukewarm candidates.

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[…] under to any challenge Stephen Harper has put forth, mostly because Michael Ignatieff is a useless limpdick, but also because Ignatieff is firmly on the centre-right side of the Liberal Party and […]

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You are forgetting something very important. Ignatieff knew Harper was going to have an election, because he admitted to voting non-confidence if he doesn’t win anyway. It was on the news yesterday. You should revise you article 😉

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