Unsurprisingly, the House Speaker gets a failing grade.
My two favourite lines:
“Show me one person who believes he’s done a good job on the decorum front. 308 meth addicts on the dance floor have better manners.”
"We [should] replace the Speaker with a bag of flour with a smiley face drawn on the front with a sharpie.”
I love Mercers rants Lorne. His is the only show I watch on CBC. His rants are not only funny, but politically their right on the mark. I'm surprised the conservative control freaks haven't tried to stop him.
ReplyDeleteI think they are savvy enough to keep their hands off a national icon, Pamela. ;)
Delete.. Scheer is such an easy target... and Rick Mercer (national treasure) cuts him to ribbons.. within days of Mulcair calling him out. What we need is more pointed Mercer outcries on the un-Canadian 'values' of Stephen Harper and the leading complicits of his so called Harper Government.
ReplyDeleteIts a lot to ask, I know.. for someone to inspire Canadians, inform them.. lead them to discovery, understanding, belief.. Actually we elect people and pay them to do this.. or rather, we used to. That's what Mercer is pointing out.. and at the same time stepping up and filling the sad vaccuum created and sustained by our boorish, mealy and vapid prime minister. Scheer is exactly what Rick Mercer suggests.. and exactly what Stephen Harper requires.. a sack of flour. When Justin Trudeau called out Peter Kent as a piece of shite.. Parliament and mainstream media went berserk.. not at Peter Kent though.. but at JT..
and completely missed why Kent truly deserved and always will deserve the apt description.. To prosper in the Harper cabal, you must buy in completely.. and sell out your country.
As usual, a pertinent and apt assessment of Harper and his functionaries, Salamander. It is surely a testament to the mediocrity of western democracy that it requires people like Jon Steward and John Oliver in the U.S., and Rick Mercer in Canada, to be the unofficial opposition to the miscreants who have made an art out of sapping our institutions of the respect they once commanded.
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