What's all the fanfare what's the to do
We're known to bring the hullabaloo
On stage or at the spa
Guaranteed we bring the brouhaha
'Cause it's a brouhaha
'Cause it's a brouhaha
--Beasties
Sheila Fraser kicks the Liberals in the political crotch over the gun registry...while standing over them screaming "And stay down!"
While the 10-year cost of the registry through the end of fiscal 2005 has been pegged at $946 million - just below an earlier $1 billion estimate - government officials went to great lengths to obscure the true annual tally, including spreading the accounting of past spending over the next 15 years.
Mother****ers. That's poor form on all counts. What is this? Deferred development costs? This is horsecrap...the kind of thing Arthur Anderson might pull, if it weren't 6 feet under. Which is kind of where the Liberal prospects reside for the next election.
While NDP Leader Jack Layton called Fraser's audit "truly a sordid and shocking tale," Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, the former justice minister, was left stammering that his government didn't really "hide" any gun registry funding.
"The word 'hide' imputes a certain (bad faith)," Cotler said outside the Commons.
Bad faith. How could anyone other than the truly gullible accuse them of such a thing? Doesn't the public have uncompromising naivete, and a cynicism-free demeanor?
And are these the same Libs who once accused Fraser of being a partisan lackey? Where's their candor now?
Bad faith? That's the least of their worries.
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