Paul Martin, PM: Master of (Canada's) House

The relationship between Canada (Mme Thenardier) and the PM.
From Les Mise:

MME. THENARDIER
I used to dream
That I would meet a prince
But God Almighty,
Have you seen what's happened since?
`Master of the house?'
Isn't worth me spit!
`Comforter, philosopher'
- and lifelong shit!

Yep, Canada's landed a gem: Here's the new boss, same as the old decrepit boss. He does nothing about his party's ship of fools:

I won't apologize, Parrish says
MP referred to U.S. 'coalition of idiots' in speech yesterday

SUE BAILEY
CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin has urged Carolyn Parrish to withdraw her latest anti-American slur but hasn't demanded she apologize.

The maverick Liberal MP says she won't back down.

Parrish was just stating the obvious when she called missile defence supporters a "coalition of the idiots," she said in an interview.

And she'd do it again.

"I believe in free speech and I am a colourful speaker. I occasionally will use terms that other people find bold.

"That's me, and I'm going to stop trying to fit into some cookie-cutter mould that somebody else has tried to design for me."

Oh, of course. How could we? We just think you should use the ten brain cells that are still firing in your cracked-out head to realize that you have sabotaged international relations with our biggest neighbour. Again. Free speech isn't the issue. Being a completely loud-mouthed idiot is an issue, however. The Drudge Report was fronting this story and over 9 million of the US's most influential people saw exactly what you said.

Here's Martin, doing mop up work:

Martin called her soon after.

"He talked about options" but did not ask her to say sorry, Parrish said.

Hilarious. No apologies asked for? From Mister "I'm going to clean up relations with the US"?

Also:
Funny how Parrish is so 'unapologetic' now. At the time, she seemed a little ashamed:

Parrish at first denied Wednesday that she had made the remark, and asked media not to report it.

Deny, then cover up, and finally become 'proud' of your idiocy. Carolyn Parrish: What a fine parliamentarian! And by 'fine', I meant 'completely embarrassing' and by 'parliamentarian' I meant 'lobotomy experiment'.