POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY LAWRENCE MARTIN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
My perception is that Harper’s government has precisely one
competent and respectable senior minister, Jim Flaherty, and even he has his
shortcomings.
He remains the only one in international exposure that is
not an embarrassment to the country.
Harper's list of clowns and weasels is long and may well
serve as further evidence for the demonstrated principle that extremely
conservative views are associated with lower intelligence.
Peter Kent, Bev Oda, Peter MacKay, Leona Aglukkaq, Vic
Toews, and, in the past, Helena Guergis, Maxime Bernier resemble a skit from
Monty Python on government. We've never been so low in public esteem.
I'll add John Baird who, although intelligent, has the
manner of a savage ultra-orthodox Israeli settler shooting at Palestinian
children and bulldozing olive groves.
How do you "sweep" with toxic material like that?
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"Amazing - after
4 elections the Harper party is still talentless."
Yes, pretty well talent-less so far as ministers.
But you cannot call Harper talent-less.
His set of redoubtable skills is a dark one, truly
Machiavellian. Canada has not seen anything quite like him in my lifetime.
He has a thick hide, little or no respect for opponents and
even disappointing associates, and, while mouthing slogans, his whole direction
shows virtually no respect for democratic values or genuine human rights.
He displays many qualities that might fairly be described
along the lines of an intelligent, manipulative, sociopathic personality.
