The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: Sarko's in Town

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Sarko's in Town

Brian and I may visit the new guy Sarko this week. For some reason he is vacationing in the Hotel New Hampshire. Paul Desmarais says he wants to patch up Franko-Yankee relations. Something about oil concessions in Iraq. George will be all ears.

I like Sarko already - the other day he tried to punch out some papparazzi on a boat. Sandra Buckler was ecstatic, but I told her we don't do that sort of thing up here in the Great White North.

Here he is at the G-8 after meeting Poutine and toasting Franko-Russki Relations. Vive La France. Hic!

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)