There has
been so much fodder for the politicians this week since Parliament came back in
session that it’s all we can do to get home to watch the soap opera of a
Scandal. The drama, the lies, the hurled
accusations, the lies, the melodrama, the lies, the backstabbing, the lies, the
stance for due process and did I mention lies?
I enjoyed the question period today on The National but I did have to
raise eyebrows as they talked about the “good week the Prime Minister was
having”. Again, did I mention the
lies? So how could Harper possibly be
having a good week because who in their right mind believes one word he has
said after the remarks made this week (or ever given what he has said this
week)?
I thoroughly enjoyed Rex Murphy’s take on
the Senate this evening. Earlier I had
been inclined to believe that while I want to be rid of those cheating senators
it ought to be done with “due process” but Rex Murphy enlightened me. It’s true, why should we accept the high
moral ground some of the senators are taking now in defending democracy when
the fact is that most of them have been appointed as political favors, the
senate has run on very loose or non-existent rules so why should they suddenly
defend democracy? Oh right, because now
they are threatened with having their gravy taken away; and no, you can’t lick
the spoon first.
I write tongue in cheek because the
journalists who are “telling it like it is” are the ones who could be lining up
for a position in the senate someday too.
Let’s face it, wouldn’t any of us jump at the chance of getting on the
gravy train? The trouble with most of us
is that we have too many ethics to ever
get a chance to be offered such a post.
With all the scandals we have seen over the decades is there anything we
can learn from them? I strongly suspect
that anyone who runs for politics, who in any way is going to land on a tax
paid salary, is most likely a sociopath.
How else can one explain the scandal statistics? The ones who are really doing any good are
those in the trenches, doing the work of the people for poor pay and little
reward except the satisfaction of doing good (and one hopes, no harm).
Noblesse oblige? Now there’s a myth for
you.
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