On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:40:33AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:53:28AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: > >> Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only > >> good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of > >> the three biggest idiots on Toronto's City Council off of it. Now > >> if only we could get Rob Ford to go into Federal Politics... > > > > I'd actually kinda like an NDP/Bloc coalition gov't next time round. > > (With a majority as a coalition.) > > > > Jack can't add, but Duceppe can, and while it might be rather > > entertaining it would hopefully involve a lot less dreary and > > horrible. > > Duceppe can't add either, he's much more of a Socialist than most of > the NDP is, being an actual ex-Communist.
Huge chunks of the US far, far right are ex-trotskyists; now, admittedly, they can't seem to add either, but there's a fair amount of evidence the Quebec socialists add pretty well. "Sewer socialists" are fine; they build infrastructure and are interested in raising the floor, as it were. > An NDP/Bloc coalition with a majority would be a prescription for both > a disastrous parliament and the fundamental destruction of the NDP as > a force in National Politics. I don't think it would disastrous. I think it would freak a lot of people out in useful ways, but that's different from being disastrous. > What I'd like to see is a Conservative/NDP coalition, with a NDP > leader who wasn't either a professional politician (a la Layton) or an > Ivory Tower Academic (a la Layton's 2 predecessors). That's getting into "and a pony" territory, though; Harper would engage in such a thing formally only after the Lord God Jehovah with a bucket of thunderbolts in one hand came down and told him to do it, and maybe not then. The NDP isn't likely to produce such a leader any time soon, either. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
