Phendrana Drifts

I wish I could make this either coherent or elegant, but man am I disgusted with the Conservative Party of Canada's move yesterday. Deciding to support the NDP budget additions in return for putting the same sex marriage bill on the shelf until fall.

Let's put this in a little perspective. One of my favourite movies, The American President summed up governing like this:

The environment got screwed. Nothing happened to you today, Sydney. Governing is choosing. Governing is prioritizing. I've made no secret of the fact that the crime bill was my top priority.

I suppose I should have added some context to the scene, where the President threw an environmental bill off the legislative agenda in order to get three votes for his crime bill. The President decided that the crime bill, and the issue of crime was more important than the environment. Throw that back to the present situation, the Conservatives have decided that stopping same sex marriage for six months is more important than stopping billions of dollars in extra, unplanned spending. As a fiscally conservative, socially progressive person, this is perhaps the most disgusting thing I could imagine. Gosh, what is Harper thinking? Will he govern my nation in the same method. *shudder* In other news, Peter Mackay thinks Stephen Harper has a sense of humour:

He actually has a very good sense of humour. It's sometimes subtle, you can miss it, [but] you know, I think Canadians will get to like him when they get to know him.

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