Michael Harris doesn't see much of a future for Andrew Scheer:
After a year and a half in office, people can be forgiven if they think Scheer is still Speaker of the House of Commons. Leaders lead, and by doing that, gain recognition.
Scheer merely lurks with that silly smile on his face, a political non-entity who acts like he’s gunning for the doorman’s job at Walmart.
He's particularly inept. Consider his encounter with The Assembly of First Nations:
Is it any wonder that chiefs from the Assembly of First Nations booed the Conservative leader lustily at a special meeting in Ottawa last December? They had a simple question, and it could hardly have caught the Tory leader by surprise. If he became prime minister, how would Scheer be different from Stephen Harper?
Yes, First Nations had a big beef with Scheer’s former boss, and for good reason. The only thing Harper didn’t do to Indigenous peoples was bring back Indian Agents. He humiliated leaders like Chief Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat First Nation, cut national funding, ignored problems and tried to run a federal bulldozer over native constitutional rights.
Scheer’s answer? The one thing you can’t say to people who have been waiting for decades for social justice — you’ll have to be patient.
If First Nations wanted to see how he would be different from Harper, Scheer said, they would just have to stand by until the Conservative leader announced his platform for the 2019 election.
Then there was the Clement Affair:
While Clement was busily cyber-sharing his private parts hither and yon, eventually ensnaring himself in a web of extortion, Scheer acted like a coach whose player had missed practice.
His reaction was to have a heart-to-heart with Sexting Man. The leader told his MP that it was a “poor decision” to send his body parts to the digital devices of strangers. Now there’s breaking news.
Remarkably, Scheer’s first instinct was not to fire Clement, but to relieve him of a few perks — some committee work and his role as shadow justice critic. And to take Clement at his word that he showed his junk to someone yearning to see it. And that, why no, he’d never done that before.
Scheer actually thought he could keep the former cabinet minister in caucus as the MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka. So much for Conservative party family values. And this from a man who refuses to march in Pride parades.
Perhaps Scheer is hoping that Doug Ford will put him over the top. It's true that Ford has some insight into Ontarian stupidity. But stupidity has its own way of coming back to bite you.
And Sheer looks like he's biteable.
Image: National Observer
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Oily Tony is also showing up in the media touting for pipelines and runaway global warming. He seems to be the best that wee andy and the reformatories have. Sad.
They're dead set against Trudeau's carbon tax, rumley. But they have no policy of their own. Obviously, they lack leadership.
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.. and so on & so forth.. This of course is about the buffoonery on exhibit yesterday by the comic twins Scheer/Hamish Inc - funny funny louts at large playing Creative Director and Hysterians of an attack ad seen on Mainstream television, presumably across Canada, even into the US of A for all I know.
Unfortunately, the fearless gem Michael Harris did not get to include this ludicrous pratfall in his blistering tear down. However, CBC, every talk show, mainstream Journos and Indies .. and Twitter are taking strips off the blundering duet.. for - not just not being funny - for their relentless belief it has value to Canadians - thus they pulled down the original to inform viewers, many of whom neither cared to see the original but thousands wondering what the Historica Hysteria was all about
Deary Me ! And now the twitterverse id feeding hungrily on the farcical deflection explanation for the nation by mister Scheer.. oh no.. not just a tweet, but an entire 3 part twitter thread.. including how CPC.HQ (the War Room?) (a secret squirrel hideaway?) possibly behind a false wall in the lovely mansion.. oh yes.. How CPC-HQ (new branding?) and their positive message is strong ready.. blah blah - All Canadians - evermore Amen..
I have sent you above the 3rd of 3 only ..
Prediction.. it will slip away away eh.. quietly killed. K did rap his knuckled.. Yes, mister Scheer's knuckle head and knuckles. Eeminding him that he does such self important work.. ON OUR DIME .. Yes.. we - Camadian taxpayers.. pay not only his salary (to work for us) but look after his lension find as well. We have been housing and feeding him and his brood for nigh on 10 years.. in absolute luxury.. so he can pimp this crap? We transport him, provide security, pay his nannies and household coordinators.. Hell we pay for his laundry, diapers and dry cleaning, we cover his transport to and from Parliament in a lixury limo, escorted, and driven by a liveried driver. Jet travel ? To chat with India, no problem. Commine with Donald Trump, no worries, Canada will pay. Big dinners for his enablers or war room bullies, snouts, louts, cranks & wanks.. roll out the single malt & imported wine and get ready for chateaubriand a la Alberta beef..
Get to know him ? How about just get away from him.. and his snivelling sneery proclamations.. his wearying shrill caucus, partisan Senators and caustic toxic enablers such as Jason Kenney, Steven Harper, Doug Ford & the rest of the evangel political locusts ?
He claims he's just an ordimary guy with kids and a mini van, sal. That's not Truth in Advertising.
perhaps it is simply time to let the voters know how well scheer is living off the tax payer dime. many simply will believe the ads about him being "average". Well he isn't. He isn't as smart as the average person, he's a religiously driven idiot. He lives a life style hundreds of thousands of Canadians can only dream about. its about time Canadians really under stood how well Scheeer lives. they love to paint Trudeau as a trust funder, well at least it isn't tax dollars. scheer's life style is supported simply by the tax payers, first as speaker and now as leader of the opposition. its time to out the boy.
if stealing the concept from another organization is the best the Conservative brain trust can do, the NDP if they can elect their leader in Bby may well be the official opposition or even Elizabeth May and her Greens. If the Conservatives are going to be viable, they need a new leader.
I agree, e.a.f. If the Conservatives believe that Scheer is their ticket to government, they're mistaken.
"Ontarian Stupidity"
I knew there must be a term for it.
Thanks, Owen.
Unfortunately, John, some Ontarians don't see it -- even when it's staring them in the face.
Scheer is the very definition of banal, with right wing religious overtones to tinge his colourless persona. Add to that a limited intellectual capacity and you have a man indistinguishable from wet cardboard.
The handlers wind him up each day before he sallies forth to spread Conservatism but the man is incapable of passion, nor does his limited intellect allow him to entertain questions more than two layers deep; his reply to a first question and the reply to the inevitable second. After that he is lost and must phone HQ for further instructions.
His grasp of any issue is so shallow, he can only turn to Conservative dogma lodged in the recesses of is mind that may or may not be applicable to the situation he currently faces. Hence he appears to veer off track while being incapable of realizing even that. He does not understand what he doesn't understand in the first place.
A right wing nonentity. Can there be a sadder label for any politician nominally the leader of his party? Still, a fitting person to front the vapidity of modern day Conservatism - "the free market solves everything", "God will provide", plus unspoken phrases of derision for non-whites.
BM
PS Next week, a detailed analysis of Jagmeet Singh in only three sentences.
Scheer is the appropriate messenger for modern conservatism, BM -- which is intellectually and morally bankrupt.
Last night CBC had Peter Mackay on with the former Ambassador from the U.S.A. to Canada during the Obama years. When I look at Mackay and then at Scheer, it was, never realized Mackay was so much brighter than Scheer. Lets hope the Cons, loose, and elect a better leader. its not that I'm fond of the Conservatives, but they represent a large group of Canadians and in a democracy, we need 3 or more viable political parties to make a democracy really function. the pee pee party with I forgot my ministerial papers at my girlfriend's house isn't much better. Gee I never thought I'd write this, much less think it, Mulroney seems a lot better than I remember. If the Conservative party of Canada doesn't make some changes soon they're going to wind up like the American Republicans.
That's precisely their problem, e.a.f. For a long time now, they've been Northern Republicans.
Generally a good summation of how invisible Scheer is and why the Cons won't oust the Libs in the next election. The one thing I take issue with in recounting Harper's actions/relationship with Indigenous People is that it appears to paint him as wrong in how he handled Teresa Spence: "He humiliated leaders like Chief Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat First Nation". Harris should have selected a better example as she and her relatives on the Band Council are a disgrace to her people in grabbing all the money and not reinvesting in the people and the Reservation. Harper was the first PM to try to get a financial auditor on reserves to track where all the $millions go that was supposed to go to schools, housing, water systems, etc. but never did. I was witness to $21M in my federal government career were in the Prairies, a Band Council spent all the money on a new Band Council building instead!
Corruption can be found in all kinds of places, Brian, and reserves are not immune to the illnesses that affect all of us. The issue with Harper was not only what he did but how he did it. He ponificated from on high and lacked sensitivity to lots of things and lots of people.
His manner alienated many -- not just first nations peoples.
I'm with you on that Owen...no argument from me on that!
Man's essential illness is never put to bed, Brian.
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