I solemnly swear to be the best Follower I can be because I don’t have a clue how to Lead. I will do so until I am shown the door and told to Get Out of the way!
Nice I headline to start today’s blog. I didn’t make that up either.( As in just like the headline I didn’t make up yesterday if you are new to my blog).
It comes via a friend from Thomas Paine one of the founding fathers of the gold ole USA and can be found in his paper ” The Crisis”
It is a fitting metaphor that political writers use when political leaders are in over their head and decide to be followers rather than leaders.
Our current and soon to be deposed Premier Christy Clark finds herself in a “Crisis” of her own making in that rather than doing the things she promised to do when she ran to be the leader she chose to be a follower of her people in Cabinet.
These would be the same people who created the mess that she had the opportunity to show leadership on when she first became Premier un-elect.
So now, as the quote says she will likely be told to get out of the way.
Ding Dong the wicked witch is starting to look like a tired old hag!
I didn’t think of that headline myself. It was spoken by Kyle Braid of Ipsos Reid who revealed today’s poll results ( not to be confused with yesterday’s lousy results reported in my blog and the Globe)
Braid reveals a new tidbit with this piece of news because now not only does the public have any use for Clark but officially neither does her party!
Expect phone huddling and meetings over the weekend looking for the quickest way to make her disappear.
Clark did not help herself with her recent mauling of Mario Canseco of Angus Reid. These guys will and did get you Christy.
Premier ‘I don’t pay attention to polls” Clark will pay attention to this poll, she will have no choice.
I would think,that although there is still a bit of space between where they are and rock bottom, the chants for Clark’s head will start again ( If they ever stopped)
With this poll this election now becomes more than losing a few seats, it ( No how much BS Comes out of the mouth of Mike McDonald) will be about losing a party.
You can now expect to see the beginning of an exodus of Conservative Volunteers from the BC Liberal party to the safer confines of the BC Conservatives.
My Guess: Clark is gone and likely before the big convention in the fall.
How many times do I have to answer that Question ? How about until you answer it you blockhead!
I never started this blog as a open window to the world on what an idiot we have as a Premier but Christy Clark makes this too easy.
Case in point: Today, in this the week of Clark rolling out old announcements trying to make them look new, she couldn’t answer a simple question about how much money she was committing to the so-called St.Paul’s redevelopment project.
She told reporters a number of times she had already answered the question but of course she hadn’t. She was finally able to come up with an answer but what was galling was that she actually thought she answered it.
Even worse when repeatedly asked to go on record with an answer she got lippy with reporters.
She is such a dolt that she can’t remember from one word to the next what she says.
This kind of off the cuff stuff from Clark gives credence to the story that she makes this crap up as she goes along.
About the only bright side is that if the BC Liberals leave Clark in as leader we will have another 11 months of this unintended slapstick provided by the hapless Premier.
Does the fact that the Premier is a dope make you laugh or cry?
Over the next days and weeks there will be countless discussions on the Liberal brand both federally and with the British Colombian election eleven months away provincially.
Lots will be said about who will want to run for the Federal Liberals when the question should probably be what will the eventual winner actually be leading.
Here in BC the discussion will be centered around the BC Liberals changing their name, Christy Clark’s leadership and the horror of a Dix led NDP win.
Prompted by Michael Smyth’s eight handy hints for Clark, I thought I would kick off discussion today with a look at the hints and reasons why Clark and the Liberals are doomed to lose.
Smyth’s article presupposes that people ( like MLA van Dongen and volunteer campaign workers like me) are malcontents because we left the party.
Nothing could be further than the truth.
I left because I had enough. I heard a Campbell speech in 1999 that started with I want to be Premier because I want BC to be a place my kids can grow up in,work here and live here.
In 2009 Campbell made a speech at his nomination that said I want to be Premier to build a province that my Grandchildren can live here and work here.
Same Speech 10 years later meant to me they had done nothing in the first 10 years of their mandate.
What life the BC Liberal party had for me died that night.
That combined with HST,Basi Virk etc. was and is a party that I no longer wanted to be associated with.
For John,the BC liberal Brand died later,but died it did.
When he left( that took courage), as you have heard van Dongen says countless times, it was because he wanted open honest accountable government. He has added that he wants to work in a government that both he and the electorate can trust.
This is not happening now and will not happen under the BC Liberals, Clark and the smoke and mirrors of a name change now.
People like John and I want to build a better BC that all of us can be proud of and that includes the people we elect to government.
We can’t do it under the Liberals and we cant do it with the same people under a different name.
People do not trust her government and they won’t no matter what she does between now and next May.
Scaling back her holidays to 4 weeks as Bob Plecas suggests probably throws most British Columbians for a loop as well. Lets face it,when most people start a new job they only get 2 weeks after year one.
Add to that, the more times she is snapped smiling at summer barbeques the more her poll results will drop. With the house out, people will just assume she is on one long summer vacation.
I believe that most people live by the old adage that he or she who lives in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones.
For the Clark government to throw stones at Dix will endanger what little bit of a glass house the Liberal team has left.
Clark has not shown leadership since she was chosen to be Premier by the Liberal Party. An example of which is her stance on the pipeline.
Whatever she decides to do with this now will look like an act of a desperate politician . ( She is)
Finally, the handy hints and most discussion regarding re-branding and the fate of the Liberal party in BC leaves out is this: Dix’s poll results could be rising because the left leaning liberals have left the Clark tent.
Every time she pretends to be a Conservative more lefties leave the Liberal party, driving her poll numbers down even further.
What’s ahead? Certain electoral defeat for Clark and her team.
Mario Canseco will no doubt be in for another tongue lashing today from simple-minded Premier Christy Clark over the latest Angus Reid poll.
Seems Clark finished right near the bottom ( Since most of you reading think she is a bottom feeder it’s probably an appropriate place).
Actually most people look at her that way as 3 out of 5 constituents disapproved of her!
To put Clark’s accomplishment in perspective both Dalton McGuinty and Quebec’s favorite whipping boy Jean Charest finished ahead of her.
Yesterday we heard from Clark Economic Advisor Jim Shepard who said he wished people would see Clark they way he does.
Uh Jim you might want to remove those rose-colored glasses and get a feel for how the voting public feels.
At some point today you will probably hear Clark say she doesn’t pay attention to poll results.
The genie is out of the bottle on that, given during her last tirade it was revealed that the BC Liberals have hired Angus Reid to do polling in the past.
If you didn’t pay attention to poll results why would you hire polling companies?
What do you think of poll results and in particular what do you think of Premier Clark?
Cue the Music! Dun Dun Du Dun Dun Da; you know the theme from Mission Impossible.
Jim Sheppard quit his $1 per yer job as Christy Clark’s economic adviser to start a support group for the inept Premier.
Firstly who cares and more importantly NOT EVEN TOM CRUISE CAN SAVE CHRISTY CLARK!
Things are that bad that advisers are leaving to start support groups and the election hasn’t even happened yet!
In fact you should be shocked that Sheppard leaving is the biggest news out of the leaders dinner.
Apparently 1700 people in attendance and all Clark and Sheppard could do was go hat in hand and beg them to join a support group.
Without rehashing everything my recent bonehead post,nothing will save Clark or the BC Liberals. Not even a name change.
Add to that the Filipna Folly from last weekend and Clark is toast.
If Mr.Sheppard thinks he can pull an end around on John Cummins people he doesn’t understand what is driving the BC Conservative and the people that support them.
It`s the same thing the electorate wants and Clark and crew can`t provide it.
So here it is: THE PUBLIC IS SICK AND TIRED WITH SLEAZE AND LACK OF FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY!
Reaching out to the so-called invisible people who Sheppard referred to is akin to telling the electorate that the hidden elite will be enough to prop up Clark’s tired Leadership.
All the smoke and mirrors and BS will not save Clark and anybody associated with her government.
As Alex Tsakumis says your Premier is a dummy and as I consistently say your government is through.
Any junior researcher could have dug these facts up before the Premier’s speech.
Either she was speaking off the cuff once again or she lied.
This is a pattern for Clark who has gaffed and told tales numerous times during her short stint as the BC Liberals wring headed choice for Premier.
If she says it’s an innocent mistake what does this make you think about her reviews and research if they can’t even get this fact right?
Ask yourself this: If she will tell a tale like this how many lies and tales has she told covering up bigger things.
Makes you think it’s time for a public inquiry into BC Rail doesn’t it!
This Premier is an embarrassment to the province and the whole political system.
Imagine how all these people who had their picture taken with her feel. Imagine being shoulder to shoulder with someone who just lied to you with a smile.
Clark Shells out $67,000 to kick out new employee Chris Olsen!
Clark fumbles a simple answer to the question ” Did you smoke pot in high school”
Clark’s Forum Poll results show her and her party on the verge of being wiped out!
Clark brings in Family Day no matter what the cost to small business.
Clark and crew bonehead family day and have it on a different day than Alberta thereby forcing people to take a day off to visit family and spend the holiday with them.
Clark ducks Western Premiers meeting making BC the laughing stock of Western Canada.
Clark mishandles Catalyst file.
Clark gets upstaged by Brad Wall on the Mulcair Dutch Disease file.
Clark screws up the facts on the Hydro File.
Clark hires pollster and then ridicules him because results shows her and her government are inept.
Runners Up
Tommy Mulcair for the Dutch Disease comment
Pauline Marois because she’s Pauline Marois.
This Month Nobody can touch Christy Clark for the Coveted Bonehead of the month award!
Did I leave anything or anyone out?
Bonehead of the Month Christy Clark!
Is anyone more worthy?
FYI : With her Filipina in her heart she is out of the gate flying this month too!
