A little bit of this, and a little bit of that…

The Liberals have been fairly silent again today. Once again, Harper’s pushing everyone else to the back pages:

• As we pointed out a while ago, income splitting is in the CPC’s future. I’m going to have to get a spouse.
• The CPC also wants to dole out money for you to become a baby-maker. I love money. I love money way better than I love the government setting up daycare franchises. But, hey, that’s just me.
• Layton loves private health care. Whoda thunk it? (And yeah, I know, I’m way behind the ball on this. Exams and stuff. Life isn’t all fun and games, you know.)
• And then, you know, we had some Nazis in Quebec or something.

I guess that’s about it. Oh, one other thing: that Strategic Counsel poll makes no sense. None. Two off-the-cuff, utterly uninformed guesses: No one’s paying atention yet. The margin of error is unusually large.

Speaking of which, everybody remember: the SES nightly tracking poll is now released SEVEN days a week, at 2pm every day. And it is like crack.

But who likes polls anyway?

Things that make you go

hmmmmmm.

It’s a 3-day rolling poll…  so this would be the first release to be, I believe, fully after the GST announcment.  And, yet, what do we see?  A drop in CPC support.

I’m betting there are more than a few people in the Tory camp scratching their heads today.

Tories in Quebec

Adam Daifallah, co-author of Rescuing Canada’s Right, has a very interesting post up about allegations made regarding the state of the Conservative party in Quebec on a radio program popular there.

Synopsis: It ain’t purdy.

Week’s Wrap Up

I was kind of harsh at the beginning of the week, I think.  On Harper, that is.  He wrapped up the week well.  In fact, he dominated it.

Too bad he hates hippies.  Who doesn’t like to smoke a doob at the end of a long day of campaigning?

Oh, and where’s the bounce from that GST announcement?  Anyone?

Ah, Buzz…

you’re a fuckface.

What? WHAT?!

All is not lost over in the CPC’s war room. They might even have a decent rapid response team.

The GST – in his own words

01 December 2005

OTTAWA – Paul Martin and his senior advisors such as Mike Robinson are calling the Conservative GST reduction plan “regressive”. Funny that, considering Mr. Martin’s previous opinions on the matter:

“The GST is a stupid, inept and incompetent tax.” (Paul Martin, Hansard, November 28, 1989).

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For more information: Conservative Party Press Office (613) 755-2191

Huh. Who’d have thunk it?

GST Cut

Well, I suppose this will be marked as the first major policy announcement of the campaign. And so early (in the morning; it’s 930am, and I’m already out of the loop)!

A cut of the GST to 5% by the CPC.

We’ll see how this one turns out. I suspect it will be popular with the voting public. My economics undergrad education instilled in me a deep love for consumption taxes, but I plan on being filthy stinking rich and buying a lot of shit… so I’m torn about this move. You have to take what you can get, I suppose, and I somehow doubt that we’re going to see promises to cut the highest marginal income tax rate from any of the parties.

As real economists start to bitch and whine about the move, I’ll update this post. Later, skaters.

Update: Ah, both economists AND pollsters weigh in in one handy-dandy article. And that’s just the kind of shit I aim to bring you, the reader (not plural, b/c I’m not sure anyone actually reads this).