Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy reading Rex Murphy as much as the next person, maybe even more. I had to giggle, however, wondering what Mr. Murphy sees in the mirror if in his opinion Garth Turner is “cantankerous.”
In his column, Parliament’s week that was, Rex Murphy considers recent events surrounding Garth Turner as [...]
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
Battered Minister Syndrome
Posted in Politics on Oct 26th, 2006
In “We don’t amount to a hill of beans” Margaret Wente says she “almost feels sorry for Rona Ambrose.” I guess maybe I don’t entirely blame Ms. Ambrose either; she is, after all, suffering from what I would call, Battered Minister Syndrome.
The figurative gonads some have said Ms. Ambrose lacks, I think is more [...]
Garth Turner; what next?
Posted in Politics on Oct 23rd, 2006
I recall back in my Decima Research days during riding tracking and polling programs we couldn’t interview on a Saturday night if say the Montreal Canadians were playing the Toronto Leafs for fear of biasing the sample. The theory being that opinion-rich couch-potatoes in the form of a beer-drinking hockey fan might not come to [...]
Inconvenient truth meets unintended consequences: The ill-advised strategy to oust Garth Turner
Posted in Politics on Oct 20th, 2006
Strategists, the good ones anyway, awake each day and while munching on Bran Flakes or whatever ask themselves at least two important questions: Was the strategy I implemented yesterday a good one? And, what’s the strategy for today?
Today, I can’t imagine that Prime Minister Steven Harper’s Director of Political Operations got much past the first [...]