Dear Canada, Really!?

“Those guys must be idiots. How could they vote that moron back into office after all of the lies and shady dealings”, I said to myself four years ago in reference to Americans having just voted George Bush back into office. And here we are, once again mimicking our southern neighbors to our own peril. I’m awestruck that Canadians would make the same mistake. Not to say that Harper has by any means made near as impressive a mess as that guy, he has used a lot of the exact same tactics throughout his time in office as well as his recent campaign.

Take for example his most recent flub in telling Canadians that the fear spreading as a result of the recent global financial crisis provided great “opportunities” to get some cheap stocks. To quote Amy Pohler, “REALLY?!” But it does sound shockingly similar to Bush’s continued pleas in time of crises to “go shopping“.

Here we are, fifty million dollars later those who bothered to show up - lowest voter turnout in Canadian history at 59% - voted in the guy who made a law to not call an election, broke his own law and called an election no one asked for, charged us for it only and then had the gall to gave us his platform only 7 days out. And we rewarded his party 16 more seats.  We’ll deserve every drop of stupid we have to now deal with… including doing the whole thing again in about 18 months.

Death to the King! God save the King!

Sheesh.