Finally, Some Non-Partisan Action
| 2/22/2008 | Posted by Patti under General |
Looks as though Harper is determined enough to have the mission in Afghanistan continue that he was willing to meet Dion more than half-way in order to come up with a motion that would pass the House.
The government yesterday revised the motion on the mission to include most of the language that the Liberal counter-motion the week before included. There is one main which is, instead of the mission in Afghanistan ending February 2011 it would end in July 2011 with a full redeployment by the end of December. The motion doesn’t specify that the troops will be completely out of Afghanistan, just that they will be moved out of Kandahar province. It also doesn’t rule out combat action after February 2009 which the Liberals had originally demanded.
I can’t say I’m impressed that the stupidity of Dion and his pacifist cronies is managing to impose calendar based deadlines instead of objective based deadlines on to the mission but 2011 is three years away and a lot could change in that time. Like Dion being replaced by someone with a clue and us having a majority government. I’m pleasantly surprised that Dion’s stupidity not withstanding, Harper was able to breach his command and control instincts long enough to find common ground.
There is still ground to be crossed before the motion gets voted on in the House. The budget comes down next week and it is possible that Dion and his band of clowns will vote against it. I do however suspect that they are at least bright enough to realize that other than costing the taxpayers a huge chunk of change to pay for an election, they wont gain anything. In all likelihood they will lose ground while Dion remains an ineffective leader.
So, Harper sucks it up and gets the Afghan mission moved forward and Dion gets a pass on the budget so he doesn’t have to be made a fool of in an election. I hope.
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