The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: Latest Puffin Nest Fouling

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Latest Puffin Nest Fouling

More Potential Marde for the Puffins: Allegations have surfaced (see HERE) that certain high-placed PMO/PCO Puffins way back in the 1990s ~~wrote~~ reviewed a certain RCMP letter asking about the The Person Who Must Not Be Named before it was sent to a certain mountainous country in Europe with a well-known banking system. If this is true, all I can say is "Shame on the Puffin Party of Canada Dirty Tricks Team."

Wednesday Morning: Apparently the names of Mark Lalond, John Allan MacEachren and Andy Sprott have emerged in connection with the "German-Canadian businessman". Lalond was even on retainer to the GCB while at Strikeman Eliot, a reputable Canadian law firm, and was trusted to handle many of GCB's legal affairs, not that there's anything wrong with that. Interesting, but Lalond was honorary campaign co-chair for Count Ignatula's leadership team and son Paul is an Iggy advisor.

Fake sources are trying to tell me he wisely refused to take cash in a fat brown envelope in a hotel room but insisted on a certified cheque passed through his law firm. I will have none of this speculative allegations, particularly as matters are before the courts.

Woah, Puffins, circle the wagons. OK now backtrack fast. Shut up Thibault!

Dear Diary. I know you are excited by all these political shenanigans, but really they take the focus away from important things like justice, tax and Senate reform. Who's to blame? - hyperactive journos, pathetic TV paranoids, political scientists and former food columnists off their meds.

I'm off to Uganda. Behave yourselves, everybody.

Pix: Lalond with PET Pup (CP PHOTO/Ian Barrett)

Talk Tough Like Mike

•“Look, this is America and you have to decide what kind of country you want. This is your country as much as it is mine.” - 2004
*"Look, if I lose, I'll just move back to Massachusetts." - to the Harvard Crimson newspaper - 2006
*“If you mess with me, I’ll mess with you until I’m done.”
• "You're looking at someone who turned down the chance to become Prime Minister of Canada, and I did so, in part, because I felt it would divide the country."
• “I don’t need any lessons in legitimacy from Harper.”
• “He knows where to find me.”
• "He's creating a parliamentary crisis and dividing the country."
• "It’s his budget, not mine."
• "It's up to Harper to make the right decision and up to me to decide if he made it."
• "We're putting the government on probation."
•"Mr. Harper, your time is up.”
*"This is a prime minister who a year ago was trying to make you embarrassed if you liked opera or classical music or the ballet or poetry. I mean, come on, let's get over this. You can like hockey, you can like classical music. Let's stop playing Canadian against Canadian and taste against taste."

The Susan Delacarte Stephen Harper Attack Thesaurus (Under Construction)