Y'all aren't the only ones with arsehole representatives

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*ahem*

Yes, well, sorry about this. For what it's worth, I fall into the 'fire her ass' camp.
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Canadian Lawmaker 'Stomps' Bush in TV Satire

Canada - Reuters

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian legislator with a history of insulting U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) has gone on television to deliver her latest protest, taking a cameo role in a satirical sketch less than two weeks before Bush is to pay an official visit to Canada.

Carolyn Parrish, a member of Prime Minister Paul Martin's governing Liberal Party, stomped on a George Bush (news - web sites) doll with her heel in the CBC television show, "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", filmed on Tuesday. The episode aired on Wednesday.

Martin has declared Parrish's previous remarks against Bush to be unacceptable but has repeatedly refused demands that she be turfed from the Liberal caucus.

"He should get rid of her. I think people have an obligation to be mature and talk responsibly," Conservative Member of Parliament Monte Solberg told reporters.

The head of the Liberal caucus, Andy Savoy, said he did not favor her expulsion.

But a Liberal legislator from the Ontario border city of Sarnia, Roger Gallaway, denounced Parrish's move as bizarre and stupid.

"It's a pathetic spectacle that someone would behave in this fashion," Gallaway said, adding: "It's rotten timing."

Bush, who has had an uneasy relationship with the Canadian government and was miffed by Ottawa's opposition to the war in Iraq (news - web sites), is paying his first bilateral visit to Canada on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.

Parrish said earlier this month that the president was "war-like" and she was dumbfounded by his re-election. In August she described supporters of the U.S. missile defense program as a "coalition of the idiots", and last year she exclaimed: "Damn Americans...I hate those bastards."

Bush is not popular in Canada, nor are many of his administration's policies. Members of Martin's own cabinet had expressed their preference for Bush's electoral rival, Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites), though none used the same sort of language employed by Parrish.

 

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How bout an even swap of Parrish for Cheney?

 

[xpanda]

How bout an even swap of Parrish for Cheney?

Oh, my god. You really do hate me.

 

[xpanda]

Baby got a poopy diaper?

Maverick MP Carolyn Parrish turfed from Liberal caucus

OTTAWA (CP) - Carolyn Parrish, the maverick MP who gained notoriety for her outspoken anti-Americanism, has been turfed from the Liberal party caucus.

Prime Minister Paul Martin made the decision Thursday after Parrish's latest outburst, which took direct aim at the Liberal leader and his closest advisers. "I cannot, as leader of our party and the government caucus, tolerate behaviour that demeans and disrespects others," Martin said.

"It is unacceptable."

Parrish's cardinal sin appears to have less to do with her repeated, undiplomatic outbursts against the George W. Bush White House than her comments on the prime minister himself.

"If he loses the next election and he has to resign, I wouldn't shed a tear over it," Parrish said Wednesday in an interview with The Canadian Press.

"I have absolutely no loyalty to this team - none."

Her ejection from Liberal ranks reduces Martin's tenuous minority in the House of Commons to 134 Liberal seats.

The Conservatives hold 99 seats, the Bloc Quebecois 54 and New Democrats 19.

Parrish becomes the second Independent in the Commons.

Parrish's ejection was precipitated by another round of public Bush bashing.

With the president preparing to make his first state visit to Ottawa at the end of the month, Parrish taped a piece with the CBC comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

In the skit - which is to air Friday but has already appeared on CBC news programs and been requested by some U.S. networks - Parrish stomps a Bush doll under her booted heal.

When fellow parliamentarians, including some Liberals, criticized her behaviour, the veteran MP for Mississauga, Ont., let loose Wednesday.

Parrish said she won't be silenced and that efforts by Martin to do so will backfire.

"After what they've put me through and lots of my colleagues, they can all go to hell," she said. "But he's not going to control me, so all he's going to do is end up looking weak."

Last year in the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), Parrish was caught on tape expressing her frustration to reporters: "Damn Americans, I hate the bastards."

She apologized for the remark and avoided public censure by then prime minister Jean Chretien.

But under Martin, Parrish has been reprimanded at least twice previously.

In August, she described supporters of the Bush plan for continental missile defence as a "coalition of the idiots" at a rally on Parliament Hill.

And following Bush's re-election earlier this month, Parrish called him a "war-like" president and said American voters are "completely out of step with most of the free world.

"I guess it's a reflection of the profound psychological damage of 9-11."

Both times, Martin reprimanded Parrish but ignored Opposition calls to eject her from Liberal caucus.

Since her initial "bastards" comment, Parrish has expressed no contrition for her outspokenness and was re-elected with a healthy majority in her Toronto riding of Mississauga-Erindale riding.

"I have opinions. They're strongly held and colourfully expressed," Parrish said this week.

"They always have been . . . I am not going to change the way I function. If I do that then (critics) have won, they've shut me down and . . . there are thousands of people who agree with me."

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Just to be sure, I welcome and encourage all civilian protestors for Bush's Nov 30 - Dec 2 visit to Ottawa. If any of the "little people" wish to hurl cream pies in his face, I will applaud them. Our elected leaders, however, should behave like adults. This 'with us or against us' attitude doesn't belong in Parliament ...

 

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Xpanda:

I think youre great! You go at it with bblight and it reminds me of Chris Matthews (you) slapping around Coulter (bblight) and telling her to drop the "Traitor" crap ...

I know one is suppose to respect leaders .. Bush / Cheney make it impossible if ya have brain material that is still functioning

Ya sure ... I will throw in a case of Texas's Finest - Lone Star Beer - if you will take Cheney off our hands ...

 

[xpanda]

Dick Cheney and Lone Star beer? Good god. American beer is perhaps the most foul beverage on the planet. And I'm pretty sure Cheney has been banned from Canada.

No, I'll keep Parrish if I must (she is now an Independent) and will endure her childish rants until the next election. In the meantime, it's all Guinness and American-free Parliamentarians for this lass.

 

[bblight]

xpanda - I'm sure you don't know it, but Doc just gave you about the worst insult possible in comparing you to Chris Matthews - the guy has marginalized himself with his anti American rants to the point where the extremists disagree with him.

Doc - I'm complimented - Ann Coulter is a true American and an ideal to strive for. Thank you!

And Doc, Kerry is a traitor! You still can't refute the facts!

 

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Yeah, if you admire Coulter, enough said about what drives you internally .. quotes from Anne Coulter below:

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to The New York Times building." .... Nice, comment ... so she would love to see innocent folks at the NY Times die??


"Liberals hate America." NOO, Liberals hate American Presidents who lie about reasons why we are in a war in Iraq ...

"Liberals hate all religions except Islam" ..... Really???? I doubt Coulter can recite any passages out of the Koran ... especially now since Bush told America that Islams pray to the same God as Catholics do???

"Democrats actually hate working class people." How stupid is this? Most Liberals I know ARE WORKING CLASS FOLKS

"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do" Again, this statement is simply spelled I-G-N-O-R-A-N-T

"Democrats...will destroy anyone who stands in their way. All that matters to them is power." Really?? How bout Karl Rove / George Bush in the S Carolina primary in 2000 when they spread rumpors Bush had an illegimate Black Child, McCains wife was addicted to pills and that McCain himself was mentally unstable due to his POW stint ... or in the 94 Tx Gov race when Bush / Rove had rumors spread that Anne Richards was a Lesbian ??? Or how bout in 2002 when Coulter attacked Max Cleland - a war veteran for this country who lost limbs in service to his country!
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[bblight]

Doc - I don't understand you? We both know that everything she said about liberals is true!

And I noticed that, in you comments, you weren't able to refute anything she said about liberals - except some tripe about working people that are liberals, when we all know that the only liberals who work are goverment employees and union activists.

Doc, you're a riot! I don't know what the forum would do without your humorous posts!

 

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bblight:

That a boy! Keep up that Ostrich pose and pretend everything is great under King George!

I actually paid Xpanda a compliment .. the finest hr in TV this past year is when Coulter starting crying on Matthews show as he beat the hell out of her and would not take her "Traitor" crap ....

And the funny part about Coulter is she used to bang a Muslim ... yep, her last boyfriend was a Muslim!

 

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Paul Martin strikes me as a non-genocidal slightly-more-intelligent version of President Dum Dum.

 

[xpanda]

Paul Martin strikes me as a non-genocidal slightly-more-intelligent version of President Dum Dum.

Very good observation. Truthfully, he's alot smarter than the one you gotta deal with (but then, so is a pack of matches) but he's equally greedy and corporatist. He's a conservative working as a Liberal. I don't like him but he's better than the 'family values and down with multiculturalism' Conservative leader, Harper.

Doc -- I need to find a way to get famous and then see if I can arrange a Celebrity Boxing match with Coulter. Stupid *****. I've seen her in interviews a few times and she's nothing better than an emotionally-charged puppet with prepackaged one-liners. Imagine having an intelligent and rational discussion with her in which NO inflammatory commentary was allowed? She'd be a freakin' mute.

That said, Chris Matthews is a bit of an arse, too.

I like Bob Woodward and, even though he's a neocon, Charles Krauthammer is good for intelligent commentary. Generally speaking, you guys are hardpressed for good journalism down there. It's more like acting than reporting, unfortunately. And that's true on both sides of the fence.