Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Stephen Harper's government and Mark Foley's dick.
If you think about it, life potentially just got a lot more interesting for Stephen Harper.
With the Republican Party imploding as we speak, there is now a realistic chance that the Democrats will win back control of the House of Representatives in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. It's still far from a sure thing, but it certainly looks a lot more likely than it did a week ago. And if that happens, the new House Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, would have the power to begin impeachment proceedings against President George W. McFuckwit.
Now, Pelosi has already announced that she has no plans to do anything of the sort, but that claim isn't surprising. Politically, it was exactly the right thing to say, to reassure nervous voters who might be grappling with voting Democrat but didn't want to open the floodgates to that sort of bad craziness.
(If the Dems win back the House, Pelosi could always just say, "I lied," and start the proceedings anyway but, for now, let's take her at her word.)
Even with no impeachment, I'm guessing a Dem-controlled House would make life for Harper just loads more unpleasant. The Dems would suddenly be running those committees, and they'd have a whole lot more oversight and -- who knows? -- they might decide that they want a say in this whole softwood lumber thing. At a minimum, they might have the power to dictate where that alleged $450 million slush fund is going to end up. And if some of that was forcibly redirected into some Democratic coffers, I'm betting that our own PMS would suddenly find his vaunted settlement a lot less appealing.
Yes, I think a Dem-controlled House would be just the thing to make the lives of Canada's wankers suitably miserable. We can always dream, can't we?
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3 comments:
If Bush gets impeached, the vice-president moves into the oval office. That's what Pelosi means when she says she is not going to impeach Our Beloved Leader.
On the other hand, if Scooter's trial brings down the curtain on Dead Eye, the Speaker of the House would be next in line for the White House. Then she can say she lied.
Pelosi can say she had bad intel when she originally claimed she wasn't interested in impeachment.
The 9/11 report, among a slew of other developments, have come to light.
In any event, Steven Harper scares me because he is possibly even stupider than Bush so I won't feel very safe untill he is gone. I am quite worried about some kind of a GOP sycophant becoming the new premier here in AB, also.
Ummm, softwood didn't have to pass through US Congres because it was an administration issue (through the Dept. of Commerce). Therefore, Dems in power would have nothing to do with it anyway. If you failed to notice, our system isn't like yours, with the executive being a part of the legislature. Not that they'd change it in a way that's favourable to Canada anyway. Seriously, they'd just undo it and let things go back to the way they were, which means you'd get precisely ZERO of the tariff money back.
How brilliant you are!
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