This Just In...

With all this talk about a possible election in Canada, I can certainly understand the attacks coming from both the Liberals and the Conservatives. What I find so amusing about this whole thing is this trumped-up Liberal moral outrage whenever the Tories take what might be called a cheap shot. Liberal leader Stephane Dion has consistently reminded the press that he won't go negative, but will instead push a positive message for all Canadians.

This is just rich.

TORONTO -- Pre-election sniping continued Wednesday as Liberal Leader Stephane Dion attacked Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a short-sighted hypocrite.

In a well received speech to about 750 Liberal supporters, Dion accused Harper of having nothing positive to show for his year in office.

"Never before has a Canadian government done so little with so much," Dion said, as some 30 members of his Toronto-area caucus looked on.

"Never before has a Canadian government missed such an opportunity."

Dion criticized the recent Conservative budget as "written by a pollster" that panders rather than builds a strong economy.

The budget, he said, did nothing for the poor or children, while the scrapping of the tax-free status of income-trusts was a broken promise for which "a million Canadians paid the price."

Even Harper's declaration on Wednesday of a wait-times guarantee for one health-care service in each
province can be considered a "failure," Dion said.

That's because Harper promised such guarantees in five different kinds of surgery.

"Delivering a guarantee in only one of five promised areas is not delivery, it's failure," Dion said.

"We need a wait-times guarantee for Conservative wait-time promises."

Dion, a former environment minister, accused the prime minister of cloaking himself in green now that polls show Canadians want action on climate change.

The Conservatives, he said, are running a "con job" on Canadians when it comes to the environment.

"Stephen Harper has no conviction," Dion said.

At one point in his speech, Dion accused Harper of "blackmail and electoral manipulations" in a quest to strip the federal government of its powers. (emphasis added)

This is politics and all politicians do it. It may be a low-blow but at least the Conservatives aren't pretending to spread a message of love, joy and world peace. If the Liberals want to whine and throw their collective hissy-fits (boo-hoo, they're so unfair) only to turn around and use the same tactics they gripe about, they only expose themselves as the hyprocrites that they are.