ahhh, the backpedalling begins

Tories back off campaign pledge to show a surplus by 2014-15

Well isn't this a huge surprise. This party has shown they know how to spend, not balance budgets. Too bad for all the Canadian families who bought this promise to wait 4 or 5 years for their tax breaks while they hand billions to rich corporations.

Well put

h/t to bigCityLib for this, this small article is quite bang on. I've said for some time, that Harper should just get his majority, and show what he's really about. Perhaps it should have happened 5 years ago. Meanwhile, many in the blogging tories are bewildered at the sudden rise in ndp fortunes. It seems unbelievable to them that such young and inexperienced candidates could possibly be elected. Even those who don't speak french, or even live in the riding. It couldn't be, that many Canadians really, didn't want Harper. Judging how the Harperites conducted themselves under a minority, one can only imagine what will happen in a majority.

http://www.simcoe.com/opinion/letters/article/1005285--we-ll-see-the-true-harper

election results

Well. First I want to say, phew. I want to say that, as a business owner, I'd far rather the tax money go into -my- pocket, rather than someone else's. I have had some ideas of getting a cool fancy car, but didn't go for it because I've been prudent. However, with these tax breaks, and the fact that the canadian dollar is higher than the US, one -could- go to the US where there are better deals, and our dollar is stronger than theirs. Did you really think I'd hire someone else because I got a tax break? You idiot. And did you really think with our dollar higher than the US's I spend it here in this country? You're a bigger fool than I thought!

Now on to more reality. I see that conservative everywhere have been showing their total class. Like this one for instance.  And of course, this one too. As per usual, he isn't interested in civil debate, but he sure seems into his other sex spam stuff.  Perhaps this is one of examples that shows why SNN is turning to pushup bras and lipstick to help with their ratings.

Ignatieff lost his seat, as did Duceppe. I liked Duceppe, but hated Ignatieff. Hopefully this time, the liberals can pick a leader who actually has the ability to communicate with voters. Ignatieff, I'm sure is very smart, but he just couldn't connect with the average Canadian. The conservatives have learned long ago, that 4 word phrases, regardless of whether their true or not, works best. Even Rob Ford figured that out with his "stop the gravy rain" rant, that even though voters couldn't quite articulate what they meant exactly, but it sure sounded good to them.

Well, here's Harper's chance to show what his agenda is, he no longer can blame the opposition, nor the senate (which he stacked with conservatives even though he said he wouldn't). He has total control in both houses, so, that crutch of it's someone else's fault? Gone.

Put into safe mode

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On the last day of the campaign, unsurprisingly, Harper has decided not to answer any questions whatsoever to the media.  Apparently, he was asked whether he would accept the GG's decision should he once again lose confidence in the house. He considered that a hypothetical question. That didn't stop him from spending millions in ads painting a "scary" hypothetical coalition scenario for Canadians though.

In other news, the blogging tories collectively seem to be just going apeshit over the latest flap over Layton, and an alleged bawdy house sighting. Ezra Levant on SNN seems to have gone all Glenn Beck on Layton. What may infuriate conservative bloggers, is Layton just may possess a similar ability like their dear leader, to deflect controversy and alleged scandal with ease.