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Originally Posted by zuluking
My post stated plainly that there is nothing ethically wrong with appointing senators who ran and lost as MPs. They are two different positions....clearly. You're (proper use) splitting hairs by complaining about one "type" of appointment versus another. Unless you can point out where it says that ethically you should not appoint a second-place finisher in a federal election of MPs..which you won't, because it doesn't exist.
Your position as undecided did not offend me except for when you prefaced a "slam CPC / Harper" rant as a neutral, unbiased poser. "I'm undecided, but I can't get past how Harper drowns kittens and the CPC is generally evil." - dramatization.
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God that's embarassing! I hate when people use the wrong your/you're and I was definitely guilty of it in that post!
There is no ethical standard when appointing senators; Harper can appoint whomever he chooses and that might or might not be the elected senators in waiting here in Alberta either. He appoints people and then I get a shot at criticizing the appointments. While there is no real standard for who these people are he should have them face some scrutiny when he makes a poor choice; its the only recourse at all. He might not drown kittens (who can really prove this?) but if he appointed someone with the character of Hitler or Clifford Olsen then surely it would be OK to question that appointment, right? (See, I can get overly dramatic and over the top with my accusations that he would appoint Hitler to the senate....although he probably would before a Liberal)
The problem in politics today is that there isn't much to choose from except for the extremes. The Liberals and CPC aren't very far apart when you really get down to it. They don't do enormously different things in government and when you look at a lot of the CPC policies and actions they're not far from what the Liberals have done in the past. They've implemented some financial policies that I actually think are ridiculous and defy logic, but the Liberals would do the same only on a different policy. They've brought in some new laws/programs that I think are a waste of money and should be stopped, but these in are place of other wasteful and uneeded policies that the Liberals had in the past.
Its somewhat amusing to me because I probably come across way more hardline on here than I am in reality though. I just like arguing about politics!
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