It's your fault!
The Liberals are not taking responsibility for anything:
Former finance minister Ralph Goodale, who is now the Liberal House Leader, repeated his party's position that the Tories should not count on them to prop up the government.
Mr. Goodale said it will be up to the Bloc and the NDP to play that role because those parties joined with the Tories to defeat the Liberal government.
It includes fighting to maintain the Liberal deals with the provinces on child care and the Liberal cuts to personal income taxes, even though the Tories promised to scrap those items to pay for a $1,200-a-child tax credit to parents with children under 6 and an immediate one-percentage-point cut to the GST.
[Mr. Goodale] said the NDP should have kept the Liberals in office if they wanted a national daycare program.
"The NDP can't have it both ways. They have to assume their responsibility. They've made their bed and now they have to lie in it," he said.
You could take issue with the NDP tactics and strategy leading up to the last election, but for the Liberals to claim that it was the NDP's fault that we don't have the Liberal's nationalized daycare seems to ignore that there was indeed an election!
If Canadians wanted the Liberal program, the Liberals would be in power today.
Instead, Conservative policies, a new one announced every day for the first two weeks while the Liberals dithered, impressed Canadians with their common sense approach. Lower GST. More money for parents to spend as they see fit. A stronger military.
The Liberals were unable to fight against that, not while under multiple investigations.
Perhaps Liberal House Leader Ralph Goodale needs to be reminded about the nuclear-powered bombshell that most observers claim delivered the killing blast -- the announcement that the RCMP was opening a full criminal investigation into the possibility that a leak had occurred in the finance minister's office on the day of the income trust taxation announcement.
The finance minister's name? Ralph Goodale.
But then I guess that would explain trying to blame everyone else.
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Liberals never accept responsibility for anything. Surely this is not news.
Can we say "June Election"?
Posted by: Curtis at February 21, 2006 04:21 PM
A reminder... the CONservatives received only slighty more votes than the liberals and only slightly more seats. A fair assesment of the election results would be that left leaning parties received almost twice the support as the cons. Remember that when you declare a complete rejection of liberal policy and an unqualified endorsement of right/wrong wing policies.
Posted by: right is wrong at February 21, 2006 04:59 PM
In general, maybe.
However, not about this childcare program. The liberals had one plan, and advocated it. The conservatives had one plan and promoted it. This was one area of sharp contrast between the liberals and the conservatives.
Back in the days of Reform/PC, they often got more combined votes than the liberals. (and is the main reason the Liberals had 3 back to back majorities) I dont recall anyone saying the Liberals should enact conservative policies to satisfy the majority of voters who voted for others. (they did that anyway)
Posted by: Curtis at February 21, 2006 05:26 PM
Since when did anyone expect the opposition would kiss butt? Anybody trying to run a country with that attitude will not be doing so for long. Using the old 'rithmetic 102+29= the square root of SFA, whereas using that same old method for the CPC and the Bloc, we come up with something like this: 125+51=POWER,MAN. The Liebrals and Dippers can scream day and night and the only thing that matters is what the Bloc thinks- so their butts are the area of interest, and they've said they want to get some kimage out of this bunch of MPs. All of us better hope the Bloc really means it. In plain English the Libs and NDP amount to a fart in a windstorm.
Posted by: Dave P from Campbell River at February 21, 2006 10:00 PM
 
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