Blizzard of Ought Seven (Continued)

I'm going to try to make my way into work, in the meantime though I thought this clip fitting:

Don't worry, I'll be back later to write about the embarrassment that is John Baird.

Update: Scott already hit the nail on the head.

Cabinet Shuffle and Priority No. 5

I suppose we'll find out who is doing what this afternoon. I can't really get worked up over this sort of thing. Harper's biggest move so far was to replace Rona Ambrose (cluelessness) with John Baird (cluelessness and ANGER!) at Environment. Anyway, Harper is his own minister of everything so I doubt he's looking for anything but better spokespeople.

Supposedly, this shuffle will set up a fall session focusing on law and order as well as foreign policy. Apparently the Conservatives have been ignoring health care concerns ever since the election and correspondingly, they have simply gone away. I remember a while ago people tried to call him on this, and yet nothing else of substance seems to have been done. Either this means that the health care concerns of a couple years ago were manufactured or that Harper is simply allowing the system to deteriorate to the point where he can impose radical measures (i.e.: large-scale privatization, for-profit clinics and hospitals) on Canadians.

Go Ahead and Make Me

That's the underlying sentiment behind Harper's stand on global warming - especially the way Dana of the Galloping Beaver sees it. It seems that Harper was ready to declare the problem solved when he appointed a Very Angry Man (and a very clueless one at that) to the environment portfolio. When pushed to actually do something, Harper won't, his approach on the environment is all sound and fury signifying nothing.