The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: Apologies to Quebeckers

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Apologies to Quebeckers

It's not every day that Michael does this sort of thing. When I told him to give Duceppe a tongue lashing I didn't mean this.

I must say I worry that he's acting more and more like Trudeau. You know, soon he'll be pirouetting behind the Queen, sliding down banisters, giving the finger to farmers, insulting spoiled artists who are voting Bloc anyway. That sort of thing. I'm going to have a word with him real soon.

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)