Time to call an election

I think Stephane Dion should be pressing for a federal election as soon as possible. Why?
1. The Tory's are turning everything they touch to rat poop.
2. Harper has lost so much credibility he's pulling the old "fly to the front lines and be photographed with the troops." Didn't work for Bush and won't work for him.
3. The party is mired in scandals - not outrageously big ones, just the kind that piss voters off mightily, like Bev Oda's $6 grand to rent a limo (Driving Miss Lazy indeed) and the sabotage of the committee system by a government that was going to reform Parliament and be open and honest ad nauseum ad nauseum.
4. Jim Flaherty and his amateur hours wandering through the halls of finance. When the conservative business community is laughing at you it's time to cash in your chips and leave.
5. Martin versus Flaherty - it isn't even close. Martin turned a dreadful deficit into one of the healthiest economies in the world. Flaherty cut the GST - stupid is as stupid does - puts an incredibly dumb tax in place on offshore income to Canadian companies and then has to back down because of the howls of outrage from coast to coast from economists, accountants and business leaders in every single province. And, incredibly, in the face of all the evidence that cutting the GST last winter was stupid times three, Flaherty is determined to do so again!!! People used to wonder why the Harris government was so hated in Ontario. This kind of mismanagement, destruction of the social fabric and general overall incompetence will do it every time.
6. China.
7. Liberals, for all their faults, are infinately better at managing the economy and managing foreign affairs and managing diplomacy and managing domestic programs.
8. Monte Wooley-headed Solberg and the killing of thousands of student summer jobs because of political philosophy. Thousands of Canadians who got real benefits from the social service agencies Solberg's red neck government has just driven a stake through, now know that Tory times are terrible times unless you're a white male who's very rich.
9. Daycare
10. Stem cell research. Only the Tories would set up a committee to look into this issue and not include one single scientist, one single expert, but would appoint whacko right to lifers, anti abortionists and whites who believe women's place is in the kitchen.
11. The lies about Afghan prisoners. Canadians don't take kindly to the brute force, don't-give-a-damn about "traitors" attitude that Harper's government has exhibited. Their lies as they tried to lie their way out of the clear evidence that they had failed to protect prisoners against torture, was pathetic to behold. Even if people are found to be guilty of heinous crimes, Canadians do not support torture. We have been exposed before the world for permitting the mistreatment and torture of prisoners - and the government's snivelling, cowardly effort to hide their actions behind lies has brought shame to Canadians and marked us as no better than the baboons in charge of the US - Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld et al.
12. We could not have butchered our relationship with China any worse if we had deliberately tried. And they must have been really impressed by the little boy we sent over to talk to them. Was there ever a worse mismatch between what was needed and Peter McKay? Our very own Peter Pan, or Tinkerbell as he must often seem to be to other governments.
13. Peter McKay. It's one thing to get dumped by Belinda and go home and cry with your puppy - at least that was played out within the bounds of our own country and hopefully no one else paid any attention. But who has not cringed at his slack jawed fawning over Condoleezza Rice? It's like watching a young Grade 9 boy who's just discovered girls for the first time ... too painful for words. Get him out of foreign affairs - he can't manage his own affairs, never mind world affairs.

The 3 Parties should pull the plug and put Canadians out of the misery and embarrassment brought on by having to watch hopelessly while the Tory twits mess us up internally, and across the world.