Getting Skewered Again

The oldest trick in the political book when a provincial Premier is feeling the disdainful squeeze on the homefront, is to pick a fight with that big bad bully called Ottawa. Looks like that is the bedtime reading of Dalton McGuinty and crew this week. Yes, the little hilroy notebook with it's tethered pages is presently laying open on Dalton's bedside table at the section entitled: "Winning votes By Whining and Wingeing."

So, the whining began in pathetic earnest, simpering it's way through the breezes from Queen's Park, floating down to the Globe and Mail front office and permeating the editorial story meeting.

Horrors! Prime Minister Harper was in town to speak at a fundraiser for John Tory, the Ontario TORY leader and supposedly snubbed the Ontario Premier. How regrettable. Heavens! Conservative Prime Minister Harper has met with Premier Jean Charest more often than Dalton McGuinty. How sinister. So............ this makes the front page of the National rag.

Quoi?

"Dad, you like Jean better than me!"

"Yes dear, I do. He's a TORY. He may have had to run under the Liberal banner in Quebec when he was coerced into running for the Premier's job a while back by the rest of Canada because the sky was falling and we all felt that he was the only one to stop the storm of separation at the time. But, Jean is a TORY. Remember? You, Dalton are a Liberal. Now, back to Queens Park and look after your own sandbox of mishandled mishaps."

So, the Globe and Mail has fully truncated any positive vibes from Ottawa with respect to the first Consevative budget in years earlier this week (and there were many kudos............almost as many goofy gaffes by the Opposition.........see Carolyn Bennett's rendition of Nazi's and kids brought up at home..............) by hooking into the whining of Dalton, and recreating the schism between two provinces AND making Stephen Harper look like the unfeeling big bad wolf.

What a bunch of transparent balderdash.