iffy cartoons

I haven't posted any political cartoons in a while. There are a host of new and funny iffy cartoons. Iffy's troubles seem to keep getting worse and worse,

A Gracious Lady

An interview with Laura Bush.

Is iffy circling the drain?

Kelly McParland thinks so. I'm not completely sure, but things look pretty bad for iffy. The media now calls him iffy. The problem is that the grits think that it is just a leadership problem. Thankfully for us, they won't believe it is a much deeper problem.


That Ignatieff should be verging on such status is surprising, considering his background and evident talent. Ten months ago it appeared he would be the beneficiary of the good kind of self-reinforcement, the kind that kept Pierre Trudeau in power for so long, even after voters stopped liking him. It appeared, once he replaced Dion, that Ignatieff was a sure thing. It was just a matter of time before he moved into 24 Sussex Drive. Canadians who didn't know much about him told pollsters they supported him, because they got the impression that's what was expected of them.

The Liberal leader has frittered that away, though. The latest Nanos poll suggests fewer than one in five Canadians see him as strong prime ministerial material. He's viewed as marginally more attractive than Jack Layton, but just barely. Stephen Harper, who Canadians still don't love, is nonetheless preferred by a margin of two-to-one.

Ignatieff is in a similar rut as far as election polls go. He can't catch up to the Tories -- can't even narrow the gap. The longer he keeps spinning his wheels, the more self-reinforcing his image of failure becomes. No one's going to champion Ignatieff if they think he's a failure, and the polls are suggesting people have reached that conclusion.

Prime Minister Harper has jetted off to Singapore, India and China. His schedule is packed and papers will be filled with images of him with foreign leaders. Ignatieff is stuck in Ottawa wondering what to do. He used to be the one travelling the globe, meeting interesting people. Not any more.

CBC bias

The cbc's leftist pro liberal bias rolls right along. The cbc is asking Tory bashing , chicken little david suzuki to host a cbc program. This is a man whose foundation had hundreds of complaints about his anti Tory bias reported to revenue Canada. Why do we find this biased organization? Why would the liberal cheerleaders at the cbc be surprised that HM Minister of the Environment doesn't want to be ambushed by partisan suzuki. Perhaps elections Canada should should count suzuki's cbc salary as a grit advertising expense.

As the most middle-of-the-road federal cabinet minister, Jim Prentice was never apprehensive about appearing on CBC. But the environment minister turned down an invitation to appear Friday morning on CBC radio's flagship show The Current for a very good reason: a hostile host.

That would be David Suzuki, the wildly successful environmental crusader and perennial alarm-ringer, who has seen the end of the world coming under a variety of climate-change scenarios.

I've heard over-the-top speeches where the well-paid Suzuki demonizes Alberta's energy sector with such sputtering gusto, Ontario convention delegates were squirming uncomfortably in their seats as they contemplated flights home aboard oilsandsfuelled jets. But this jolly green giant's timing couldn't be worse to host a high-profile CBC show as an undeniable opponent of the government's environmental policies, or lack thereof.

Shame on ssmu

The McgIll student council has suspended Choose life's club status. I have spoken to the administration a number of times about the silencing of voices on campus. I think Choose Life should bypass council and get permission from the administration to book rooms on campus and raise money privately to keep their club going. I would donate to such an effort. Most students on campus to not vote for the student council. It is sad that young people ,having been brainwashed by some of their leftist, victimhood screaming, politically correct mentors, seem unable or unwilling to allow free speech even on a on a university campus. Read the Orwellian statement put out by the censors. I expect next the Choose Life kids will be sent to reeducation camps.
I am sure many alumni will not be happy by this move. My alma mater is no longer a place wherfe free speech trumps hurt feelings.


McGill’s Choose Life had their club status indefinitely revoked yesterday by the SSMU.

The motion, which passed by a vote of 16-7, stipulated that the “Student Equity Committee work with Choose Life to draft a document for Choose Life on how to abide by SSMU’s Constitution, By-laws, and Policies, which will be adopted by Choose Life.”

Maybe it will be a behavioral chart that will work on a smiley face basis. Perhaps double-smiley face stickers will be awarded when Choose Life quietly heeds to the temper tantrums of those who believe freedom of speech comes with strings attached