More friends of the Party rewarded!
More openly bigoted legislation passed!
More political hacks given Judgeships!
More hate groups publicly funded!
Plus, far greater contempt for families
and traditional moral values!
Mussolini was a piker !!!
Posted on 04/30/2005 4:51:41 AM PDT by fanfan
Grits are 'whores,' MP says
BILL RODGERS, SUN OTTAWA BUREAU
A veteran Conservative MP cranked up the name-calling a notch yesterday, declaring his Liberal opponents the political version of hookers.
"They're whores," said B.C. Tory John Reynolds.
"I don't like to call them that because there are probably some whores who are nice people."
Reynolds, who will head up his party's national election campaign, was responding to increasing attacks from Prime Minister Paul Martin and New Democrat Leader Jack Layton that the Conservatives are jumping into bed with the separatist Bloc Quebecois to topple the minority government.
"The Liberals will do anything to try and scare people in Ontario and other parts (of the country)," Reynolds said. "I think Stephen Harper as prime minister will make damn sure Quebec stays in the country."
The Conservatives yesterday released a long list of their motions on issues that were defeated in the Commons when the minority Grits teamed up with the Bloc Quebecois. They include last month's attempt to amend the Liberal budget and a motion that called on the government to direct more resources to buy new defence equipment.
The news release also noted that the PM's Quebec lieutenant, Jean Lapierre, was a co-founder of the Bloc Quebecois.
In a pre-election speech in Calgary yesterday, Harper attacked Liberal "corruption" and made health care a platform cornerstone.
Harper told the packed crowd that "when" he's elected prime minister he will deliver to Canadians "clean land, clean air and clean water through clean government."
But many believe it was the Conservatives' position on health care that cost them the last federal election and, in what amounts to pre-election manoeuvering, Harper fired the first round in the medicare debate and solidified his party's position on the Canada Health Act.
Harper also went against predominant Conservative minds such as Mike Harris and Preston Manning, who propose the Canada Health Act be scrapped and the feds be kicked out of the health-care business.
"The Conservative party of Canada fully supports the evolution of the Canadian health-care system within the framework of the Canada Health Act," said Harper at a Fraser Institute lunch.
Harper admitted there are problems plaguing the delivery of health services but that's not because the act is flawed, but due instead to an aging population and the fact that more medical treatments and services are available than before. But privatizing the system won't fix those problems, he said.
Harper also promised to increase health-care funding.
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That is a very nice name for them to be called. I would call them worse. Fascist comes to mind.
Well, at least whores provide a decent public service.
Pelosi, Rodham, Boxer...... I'd love to hear those words from DeLay
hookers will screw you once, politicians will do it again and again
Except in the case of politicians, they won't even give you the common courtesy of a reach-around.
To call Liberals whores is an insult to whores......
Pay 'em the money, they'll tell you whatever you want to hear.
Whores is good with eggs and bacon. Mix it all up and fork it on a piece of toast. Yum!
tell us how you really feel...
Italian whores is polenta and is great with tomato sauce.
Anyway, since you asked.......
The term comes from the mid-19th century "Clear Grit" party, who were Upper Canadian reformers with support concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned by the 1849 Reform government of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine's lack of radicalism.
The Clear Grits advocated universal male suffrage, representation by population, democratic institutions and free trade with the United States. They came under the leadership of Toronto editor George Brown and, in 1857 joined with the Reform Party to became part of what became the Liberal Party of Ontario and Liberal Party of Canada.
The Clear Grits were one of a long series of farmer based radical reform movements. Later examples were the United Farmers and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. The word "Grit" has become synonymous with "Liberal" in English Canada.
My, how things change, eh?
GRITS*
I imagine a small few are whores,
but most of us aren't. ;o)
*Girls Raised In The South
LOL. Most of you assuredly are not!
U are correct.
Didn't realize it was party specific. I thought it was a general prerequisite for becoming a politician.
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