"Cream of the Crap"

Dawn Black, NDP defence critic, glimmers amongst her colleagues at the House of Commons, in Committee of the Whole debating defence spending: a report and assessment from Babbling Brooks. The minister, rightly, does not escape criticism.

...much of the time was taken up by long-winded pontification and softball questions from the government ranks, and cheap sensationalist politicking from the opposition members. Quite honestly (and to me, surprisingly), the only MP that distinguished him- or herself with relatively unpretentious questions and genuine attention to the answers was NDP Defence Critic Dawn Black [see end of link]. I say 'relatively', because given the quality of the debate overall, that merely crowns her Cream of the Crap.

Ujjal Dosanjh, Black's Liberal counterpart, was quite frankly an embarrassment, as was the PQ critic Claude Bachand...

...Minister O'Connor's performance was a mixed bag - concise and forthright in some instances, but ill-informed and evasive in others. I'll deal with the specifics of some of these assessments in subsequent posts.

One wonders if, with such an ill-informed opposition and such a fawning and self-congratulatory government, we can accomplish anything at all debating in the House of Commons such grave issues as the defence of our nation and the security of the greater world in which we must live...

People are constantly demanding that Parliament debate (see "the madness" at link) major issues. In God's name why? Their debates simply serve no useful earthly purpose; they are embarrassments to a real country. Babbling has said well what our journalists will not--either because they do not recognize the truth or they cannot handle its implications.

Mark C.

Posted by markc at November 9, 2006 04:46 PM