Best B.C. Political Laugh of the Day?

[ILBT uh-huh]

My daily posting for best B.C. political laugh?

Same thing every day. The NDP.

[Fritzthecat]

Christy Clarke running for BCLiberal führer .

[steven lloyd]

Christy Clarke running for BCLiberal führer .

The Sarah Palin of BC politics. I wonder if she can see "the socialist hordes" from her porch ?

[NAB]

[issueman]

Christy Clark saying," I have nothing more to say about B.C. Rail."

Wonder why?

[NAB]

Christy Clark saying," I have nothing more to say about B.C. Rail."

Wonder why?

Can you point us to where she said what you have quoted her as saying Issueman?

Nab

[Fritzthecat]

Christy Clark saying," I have nothing more to say about B.C. Rail."

Wonder why?

I dunno.

Now I'm sure, if elected, she won't be full of *bleep* like Campbell. It will be a New Era. An open and transparent government that will be accountable to the electorate and will be run more like a business.

[issueman]

BEST?:
Someone saying that Christy Clark had more
intellect than Sarah Palin. Ho Ho-good one!

B.C. Rail
Education Destruction
HST..."DEAD"
OTHERS?

HMMMMM....???

[Bill Parker]

Dave Barrett asking issueman for money. When would a teacher ever part with his/her own money?

[issueman]

WHAT???

[Fritzthecat]

People defending the BCLiberal party.

[NAB]

People thinking the NDP could win a snap election called at any time next year

Nab

[Fritzthecat]

People thinking the NDP could win a snap election called at any time next year

Nab

Not with Carol at the helm I'm afraid.

[Fritzthecat]

I had to double check to make sure it wasn't April 1st!
DeJong, put down the bong!

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101215/bc_voting_age_101215/20101215?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

[Al Czervic]

Here was my "laugh" of the day. Although you have to read ALL the way to the bottom of this Tom Fletcher article to get to it.....

It’s politics, not cancer research

VICTORIA – Christy Clark is the second woman to enter the B.C. Liberal leadership contest. I mention this in case you forgot about Moira Stilwell, the Vancouver radiologist who led the way into the post-Gordon Campbell era in late November.


Stilwell did her own diagnosis on the harmonized sales tax and concurred with mainstream economic theory. It’s efficient and it promotes personal savings as well as business investment.

In medicine, if you believe the patient has the right prescription to improve her health, you don’t then look for ways to discontinue that medication as quickly as possible. But that’s the situation we have with our less scientific candidates.

Clark didn’t always understand the HST, but she consistently supported it on her radio show before her splashy re-entry into politics last week. So the lone “outsider” becomes the fifth candidate to replace Campbell, after endorsing the tax that led to his sudden retirement.

So apparently, the five are unanimous that the HST is a great idea, and all but Stilwell want to get rid of it as quickly as possible.

One after another, the cabinet veterans sought to distance themselves. First George Abbott agreed with Stilwell that the new premier should move up the date of a province-wide referendum from September to June. Prognosis of patient not good, Abbott intoned.

Then Kevin Falcon scrubbed in. Get the vote done as soon as possible, and maybe the HST can be revived if we slice a point or two off.

Mike de Jong’s outlook was, well, grave. Cutting the rate would be like putting lipstick on the scars. This patient is terminal, so let’s pull the plug as inexpensively as possible. An election-style vote would cost $30 million, but a mail-in ballot could be done for less than half of that.

By the time Clark arrived, the HST was a palliative care situation. Her only option for a fresh perspective was to move toward assisted suicide. OK, let’s scrap the referendum, she said. It’s doomed anyway. Let’s go back to the legislature and have a “genuine free vote” where B.C. Liberal MLAs can reverse their earlier votes and throw it out.

There are so many things wrong with this idea that it’s hard to know where to start. Mistake, said Abbott. “A real blunder,” said Falcon. De Jong said if he had to vote on the HST again, he’d support it like he did the first time.

(NDP finance critic Bruce Ralston also believes scrapping the referendum now would be dumb, and it’s not often you’ll find him agreeing with Falcon.)

Clark’s “genuine” free vote would have to take place before she even has a seat in the legislature. It would divide the B.C. Liberal caucus again, unless her idea of a “genuine” free vote is everyone doing what she tells them to do.

This plan would be a disaster. It shows that while Clark spent the last four years getting in touch with families on her radio show, she lost touch with political reality.

Which brings us back to Stilwell. When I reached her on the campaign trail, she reaffirmed her support, and vowed again to campaign for the HST.

Stilwell said people have earned the right to have a direct say, and she is “perplexed” that Clark would suggest taking that away. Stilwell remains hopeful that other benefits of the HST can still be discussed, giving it a chance for public support.

In short, she remains logical and consistent in her approach. It’s no wonder she is given no chance to win.


Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com.