Jason Cherniak vs The Mission
Jason Cherniak, Liberal blogger and defender/apologist for Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion, has had enough. He has gone on the attack, trying to remind the "stupid f*cking idiots" who are attacking Stephane Dion that they are hurting the Liberal Party in the process.
That argument won't work. These people don't care. Found at all levels in the Liberal Party, this secret cadre is on a mission. A mission to remove Stephane Dion and anyone who worked for him from the Liberal Party. If the Liberal Party is wrecked along the way, so be it.
Call it collateral damage. It doesn't matter. Nothing can get in the way of the mission.
Jason Cherniak is feeling his oats today. In both senses of the phrase. Either that, or the stress has caused his brain to break.
Jason has had it with the malcontents in the Liberal Party, and has reached the end of his rope:
This week, we are learning that it has also led otherwise intelligent people to do really stupid things because they believe that they are smarter than everybody else.
Hey, isn't that the definition of a liberal? Someone who thinks he's smarter than everybody else?
Meanwhile, the leader had to take responsibility for the public face. He put his team together and he started getting the ball rolling. Everything wasn't perfect, but by the end of the summer we were tied with Stephen Harper after he had been PM for a year and a half. Things were going well.
Then we saw a report of anonymous people complaining that Michael Ignatieff's team had torpedoed a by-election in Quebec. Who were these people? I don't know. What I do know is that those people really screwed the pooch. They questioned the loyalty of just under half the Liberal Party and accused the Quebec Liberals of being either incompetent or disloyal.
But the by-election was already screwed up. And that blame was already filtering back to Stephane Dion. Dion was supposed to win Quebec back for the Liberals. That was the promise made by Dion apologists to the grassroots who then voted him leader. Dion's people could see the disaster happening. They were already under a great deal of pressure because of the embarrassing state of Liberal fundraising. To protect themselves and to protect Stephane Dion, they fired a preemptive shot, aimed directly at Quebec Liberals.
Why not? Stephane Dion had already lost Quebec. How much worse could it get?
Dumb question. Of course it could get worse. Now pissed off, these Quebec Liberals made sure Stephane Dion's man, Jamie Carroll, was rendered radioactive in Quebec. What he did or did not say about Quebecers and Chinese was irrelevant. If Quebec Liberals said Jamie Carroll uttered a slur about Quebecers, then that's what happened. If Stephane Dion insists that this wasn't what happened, it just doesn't matter. Quebec does not listen to Stephane Dion, and they haven't been listening for a long, long time.
The grassroots was told Quebec would start listening. They were told wrong.
Over the weekend, Jamie Carroll offered everybody a way out. He said he would resign if he did not have unanimous support of the National Executive and he asked for severance. It's unfortunate that this happened after the leader defended him in public, but it wasn't the end of the world. If you read his memo, this was clearly supposed to be the beginning of a private negotiation for him to leave.
What did all the complainers do? They made the memo public!
Oh dear. I guess the Liberal Party needs some of that control-freak communications clamp-down juice they drink at the PMO. You know. That stuff Garth Turner whines on about, how he was never allowed to speak his mind when he was a Conservative.
See what happens when people speak their mind? Especially when they have it mind to eject Stephane Dion as leader of the Liberal Party? The problem for Stephane Dion and his apologists is that they have no clue as to just how reviled Stephane Dion is in some quarters. People who loathe his selection as leader are found everywhere in the party infrastructure. That's why the memo went public.
Jason doesn't get it. These people want to hurt the Liberal Party:
In case you didn't get the message, attacking the leader's employment decisions in public only hurts the party. That's the whole goddamn point. This has nothing to do with defending Jamie Carroll.
Duh! One more time. They want to hurt the party! By hurting the party, they hurt Stephane Dion. They can't hurt Stephane Dion directly -- the Liberal Party constitution has no mechanism to eject a leader except after a general election loss. So there has to be a general election, and the Liberal Party has to lose it, and lose it in a big way.
That way Stephane Dion has no choice but to go, since by then the grassroots -- no longer fooled by Dion propagandists -- will demand that he go. Dion could never survive a Leadership Endorsement Ballot that is required after an election loss.
The grassroots people who voted for Stephane Dion will feel like they've been cheated by every Dion supporter and apologist who said Dion would take back Quebec for the Liberals, and return the Liberals to power. That means Stephane Dion and everyone around him will have to go.
The people who want Stephane Dion gone are following the only path open to them to guarantee that end.
These people are not "stupid f*cking idiots".
These people are driven by a desire to save the Liberal Party. It is a testament to Stephane Dion's leadership and the communications skills of the people around him that these people have reached this point. To them, the Liberal Party is not worth saving if it means Stephane Dion is leading it.
Calling them names won't help. As far they are concerned, the idiots (with whatever qualifiers you choose to put in front of that label) are those who conned the grassroots into selecting Stephane Dion.
These people are gunning after Dion and all his supporters. If cutting them out of the Liberal Party means wrecking the Liberal Party in the process, so be it. These people are motivated. These people have a goal.
No, that's not right.
These people have a mission.
I think I can see why, faced with this reality, Jason's brain seems to have broken:
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Mr Cherniak has hitched his horse to a wagon that he was sure would pull him over "Senate-Seat Mountain". The horses up front have cut the wagon loose and it's careening out of control. Now he's afraid he'll end up a crumpled heap but he can't quite bring himself to cut the reins in case the wagon miraculously becomes a train and turns to chug over the mountain under it's own steam.
The truth is that wagons don't become trains. You're a wagon or a train. Those horses might get over the mountain one day but they knew they wouldn't make it pulling a crappy wagon so they sacrificed it for the sake of survival.
Meanwhile, as the wagon hurtles down the wrong side of the mountain, Jason just picks up speed to stay with it, all the while chanting, "Be a train! Be a train!"
Choo-choo, Jason. Seeya
Posted by: Rob R at October 3, 2007 02:27 PM
Anyone out there still believes the Liberals and Conservatives are in a statistical tie according to a Canadian press poll as reported by CTV?
Posted by: Louise at October 3, 2007 02:39 PM
//Hey, isn't that the definition of a liberal? Someone who thinks he's smarter than everybody else?//
LOL, as they say over at dust my broom... Liberalism is a mental disorder...
Posted by: mungman at October 3, 2007 03:51 PM
Angry, I have to say that the Utube clip is just plain cruel--and I LOVE IT.
Jason sure looks funny in a sombrero though.
Unfortunately I'm one of those that he censors on his blog so I can't say anything about him there. BUT I CAN HERE.
So Jason, you are the village idiot.And it looks good on you.
And if the lieberal party is dissintegrating, thats great.
Horny Toad
Posted by: Horny Toad at October 3, 2007 04:01 PM
Once again you are right Steve. But do you have to keep beating a guy hen he is down? scratch that, do you have to keep beating a guy after his brain has been broken...
Posted by: James at October 3, 2007 04:05 PM
Too bad he wasn't that forceful when his party was busy covering up adscam..
Posted by: David at October 3, 2007 04:13 PM
I'm not beating on Jason. But I do think he has grossly misread the threat to Stephane Dion and the lengths to which these people will go. It's as if he's suffering from a massive case of cognitive dissonance, unable to process the information that suggests that Stephane Dion is mortally wounded. Hey, I might be wrong, and this might just be a handful of idiots, but I don't think so.
But then I don't have my future invested in the Liberal Party and in Stephane Dion in particular, so I can come to harsh conclusions much more readily.
Posted by: Steve Janke at October 3, 2007 04:25 PM
Where the hell are they polling? The Liberals are dead in Quebec so it must be in brain dead Ontario where the support is. There also could be some confusion with the Ontario election going on and so many idiots all stuck up on the Faith based schools issue. Not that we don't already have faith based schools, we fund the Roman Catholic schools to parallel the so-called Public system. McGuinty calls them all "Public", the only thing "Public" about Catholic schools is the public money they receive.
It's an opportune time for the bleeding Liberals to commission a poll, that's it, that's all.
Posted by: Libby at October 3, 2007 04:51 PM
I wonder how his f***ing comments will help his election bid for Central Region President, whatever the f*** that position is. I would think that people would think twice about voting for someone that can't f***ing control themselves and make an f***ing fool of themselves.
Posted by: Davide at October 3, 2007 06:10 PM
So what you are really saying is that the mole is behind all of this and is out to bring Dion down?
Posted by: DM at October 3, 2007 09:44 PM
I was just reading your post regarding the NDP.
Good post...
I happen to think personally that the NDP has a real shot right now at pulling off a bit of a coup on the Liberals.
I'm not certain I agree with all your points, there is a reality that politicians of all stripes, by the very nature of their profession, are in a constant struggle for power, regardless of where their seat is in the commons.
That said, Layton has been playing the game well of late, and has swept the rug out from under the feet of the Libs in Montreal. Their confusion has left the door open for him to cause some serious damage.
"As Quebec goes, so goes Ontario".
The issues facing the Liberals are even more significant than they themselves realize.
When the Liberal Party ruled over a nation of 5 million, 8 million, 24 million... they could still reach a substantial amount of individuals with their platforms, focusing on TO and Montreal.
The really amusing thing to me is the ever passionate quest to fill the voting booths full of new immigrants, and in having successfully done so, they have in fact begun the process of their own "demise".
By opening the floodgates in the late 80's under the Tories, and then seizing that initiative by opening them even wider to immigration, they've gone and diluted their own base.
They simply no longer represent a majority of the people. In fact, 2000 was the last time a Liberal leader won with more than 40% of the vote at 40.8 percent... of a turn out of 61.2% of the eligable voters, meaning less than 27% of the nation actually voted for the Liberals.
Indeed, no party since Wildman Brian has won a true majority. In all of the Liberal wins since 93, they've never captured more than 27% of the actual voting nation.
It was purely the self imolation of the PC's that even allowed the Liberals successive back to back majorities. It certainly wasn't the will of the "other" 70% or so voters.
Harper may be very right that we are on track for a succession of minority governments, simply because, as you say, the Liberals muddle the middle.
Should the Liberals fail to achieve a modicum of harmony in the near future, they may find themselves in an ideological wasteland, thanks to some asute moves by Layton, and little error by Harper.
The world is confusing, and people look for definitive concepts of leadership when they are scared or confused, or feel adrift. It's simply not substansive enough to say "We represent the will of Canada", without actually representing the will of the majority of Canadians.
It will be a couple of decades yet before the NDP are ready to rule... there's still to much to achieve yet for Canada, to risk letting the NDP at the helm. 20 to 30 years from now, when the nation is moving along and the NDP can't really fuck it up, thats when we will be able to afford their idealism.
In the meantime, they present a credible, and very exact point of view... one I think many on the left, disillusioned or disenfranchised as a result of the failures the Liberals, may very well embrace.
One thing Liberals should take strong note of is that there is virtually no fluidity in the polling numbers of the CPC... while I believe that the numbers are not as firm for the Liberals.
Even in the poll out today, Decima... arguably one of the worst polling firms, was quick to point out that the polling numbers might be twisted as much of the Quebec polling came from Montreal.
Regardless, I think as long as Layton doesn't say something like "Free Welfare for everyone", and Dion continues to fail to get the parties shit together, the Liberals will be hard put to unit the left.
Their credibility is to shot for it to mean much to the true environmentalists, anti-war, womens rights groups and on and on in the left side of the spectrum.
Meanwhile, all the PM has to do is steer the ship, make some sensible legislation, and not let his people get into shit, and boom, he'll get his majority for exactly the same reasons Chretien did...
We are beginning the process of maturing as a state, through ideological polarization, and no cheque book is big enough to buy that. Regardless of who is writing the cheque.
Interesting times indeed.
Posted by: Joe Calgary at October 4, 2007 12:15 AM
Cherniack is a consummate partisan butt snorkeler who has worked his fart-catching skills to wrangle a lower tier flunky position in the local Librano family "crew"...he's not a made man yet and he will never get "inside" with the Librano crime family capos as long as big Tony sees him with such loose lips.
Funny thing is that for all this self-aggrandizement as a "smart" political mover and Librano "insider" he certainly has not grasped the main directive of Librano modus operandi: Keep yer mouth shut, never dis da boss, and keep family business to yourself.
Jason's contant airing of party puffin poop has got to have drawn the attention of Librano "enforcers" by now.
I suspect Jason will end up out on the political body dump with the other 'whacked" Librano aparatchiks who couldn't keep their mouth shut about "family" business.
Expect it from a friend when you least expect it Jason...that's how a Librano family hit Happens....and don't trust party "friends" because they will get the contract. ;-)
Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at October 4, 2007 08:08 AM
Same thing Monte Solberg, Art Hanger et al did to the alliance, stabbing a leader chosen by the party in the back.
Easier to watch this time. Now wheres my popcorn, :)
Posted by: DrWright at October 5, 2007 09:18 AM
DrWright is bang-on; Cherniak & Co were likely all a-twitter when the Reform/Alliance Conservatives were eating their young; it's vastly entertaining to now observe the shoe on the other cannibalistic foot.
Dion is in complete free-fall; it remains to be seen if Cherniak et al abandon him before he hits terminal velocity and goes SPLAT.
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