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Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Liberal Logic
You figure it out. Ralph Klein blusters about defying Ottawa on health care and he's a granny-murdering monster. Harper muses about allowing provinces to experiment with different health care strategies and he's a Straussian devil. But when Dalton McGuinty finally signs on to the notion that Ottawa cannot dictate what provinces do when they pay but a fraction of the medicare bill, he's a hero.
"Right on," exclaims the the never-boring Warren Kinsella. "From Klein, or Harris, or one of those other Medicare-hating neo-cons, complaints about the systematic underfunding of health care were easily dismissed (and usually rightly so) as grubby partisanship dressed up in the finery of high principle. The pencil-pushers in Ottawa can't do that with McGuinty. My hunch is a lot of folks will look at this and say: "He means it. He's prepared to take on even his own federal party to ensure that my Number One Priority is finally addressed. That's not 'bickering,' that's actual leadership."
So, this is how Liberals see Canada. It's not the logic or sense of a policy that matters, but whether the one who epouses it is loyal to the Big Red L or not.
Posted by Kevin Libin on July 27, 2004 | Permalink
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Klein a health care hating neo-con? Perhaps Mr. Kinsella hasn't noticed how well paid our nurses are? How much money Alberta pumps into health care? Man, talk about an uninformed opinion.
Posted by: Sean | 2004-07-27 3:42:04 PM
Once a dick...
Posted by: Jerry Aldini | 2004-07-27 4:31:42 PM
Kinsella is a featured speaker and honoured guest at the blogging/journalism conference in Toronto next week. I hate to think all the US attendees will go away thinking he's typical of Canadian journalists, and Canadians in particular. Oh, wait a sec...
Posted by: Kathy | 2004-07-28 3:58:20 AM
The only important question here is: is Kinsella infected by Diseased Rationalizing, Liberal Brainwashing, or Orwellian Doublethink? Unreal.
Posted by: Stork | 2004-07-28 12:21:00 PM
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