OMG! Something worth reading in Macleans!

Well, on their website at least. I hadn't checked out Paul Wells' blog before, but it's pretty good. You must check out his righteous fisking of an obnoxious Paul Martin puff piece from the Star. A sample:

The big wrap-up: "It's encouraging, even refreshing, that a Prime Minister leading a party in desperate straits is falling back on ideas for salvation."

QUESTION: How does any of this qualify as an "idea?" We're going to change taxes and transfers in a way that makes everybody happy simultaneously. We're going to pull rabbits out of our asses until the plight of the First Nations vanishes. We're going to fix health care over a long weekend. And then we're going to agree on everything else.

Who's Martin's new intergovernmental-affairs minister going to be, Barney the Dinosaur?

This is not a fire of ideas. It is an avalanche of crap. And it suggests the gap between this prime minister's Nietzchian self-image and his cruelly limited ability to turn rhetoric into even the most prosaic of functional reality is becoming the most important phenomenon in Canadian politics.

A refreshing bit of tasty commentary from Canada's magazine of oatmeal and pablum. A good sign that maybe the landscape is changing.

Posted by Bruce Gottfred at March 29, 2004 05:12 PM | TrackBack