John Chuckman is a Loonbat. Distinguished from the American Moonbat by his Canadian nesting place. A frequent contributor to such models of lucid thought as YellowTimes, CounterPunch, SmirkingChimp, Asian Tribune, and Democrats with Spine he has had one of his screeds pubished by The Asian Times. He has, one would think, empressive credentials as the former Chief Economist for Texaco Canada. Yet the dreary and lazy use of lefty rhetorical vomiting…”neo-con”,”Bush’s illegal invasion”,”shadowy godfathers of World Empire”...belies the notion that this man speaks with intellectual rigor.
Chuckman doesn’t speak of why Canada’s Liberal Party would select what he obviously considers a Neo-Con lap dog, Ignatieff, to run for the Etobicoke-Lakeshore Riding. That might be interesting. Instead, Chuckman uses his pulpit for a personal attack on Ignatieff as well as a few other Canadians for apparently no other reason than to attack the dreaded American Neo-Cons. Moreover, his similes which make use of American culture are just flat wrong. And that, most of all, is the reason to laugh at this “Progressive” buffoon.
one of those New England clerics safely ensconced in a sinecure at some dignified pile of stones where he only has to address a small, blue-haired congregation once a week to earn his keep,
Yes, those renowned New England Gospel Clerics. ROFLMAO…since when? The 40’s, as in the 1840’s?
When Loonbats use American similes it sure would help if the dullards would use appropriate ones. Mr. (up)Chuckman would be advised to use the Baptists the next time he invokes stodgy, Gospel preachers secure in their tenure. Ask Ted Rall, those are the required targets of L3 screeds.
Or perhaps he was speaking about The AME, which does have strength in New England and is a long established Gospel Church? No, the African Methodist Episcopal is Black and hence immune from the rants of Leftists whose descent into shrill, unholy madness has been hastened by the mere existence of Chimpy McBusHitler…The World’s Dumbest Dictator.
...having sought a two-year leave from Harvard. His New England sinecure and its wealthy blue-hair congregation quietly await his return.
How many Americans are really going to buy the idea that Harvard is a nest of Conservative Moneyed Interests…and Gospel Christian to boot? That Chuckman thinks so is obvious and that is an indication of exactly how absurd the man is. As if his endorsement of Saddam’s Iraq as a decent place to live wasn’t clue enough that this Loonbat is, well, loony.
Finally, Chuckman compares a Riding to a Congressional District. In a very limited sense they are. But in terms of the affect on a nation they are wildly apart. Because of an effectual Senate a US Congressman’s power is limited by his sonority and what the 400 odd other congressmen do. As well as what the Senate and the President have in mind.
An MP, and his or her party, has far more immediate power to change the direction a nation takes. The United State’s representative republic, with it’s power balance between the House, the Senate and the Executive, is far less subject to the immediate will of the people.
The American voter splits his power between three people…his congressional representative, his Senator and his President. In commonwealth models the voter puts all his marbles in one representative’s pocket. So what happens in Etobicoke-Lakeshore is, indeed, an important race to watch. As are they all.
(HT SmallDeadAnimals)