Layton's loonies caught red handed in lousy character assassinations

The NDP, particularly Jack Layton and mouthy spouse Olivia Chow, love to claim the NDP is the only party with scruples and morals and true caring about people. Chow is particularly odious in trying to paint herself as a champion of the people in the party that cares. The two of them never miss a chance to shove their mugs in front of a camera to pose as the people you can love when politics leaves you cold.

Most MPs grind their teeth in rage when these two sanctimonious twits wrap themselves in the mantle of decency and honor, acting as if they have a monopoly on decency so there was particular glee in Alice Land by the Rideau when they were revealed last week for what they are: leaders of a party that doesn't do its homework, that won't let truth stand in the way of a good story and oh yeah, lets members stand alone and exposed when they get caught in their lies and innuendos.

So there was the NDP, exposed for having outright lied about a Liberal candidate trying to bribe his NDP opponent to get him to resign from the race in the last election. The target was David Oliver and it worked as he was dumped as the PArty's candidate in the BC riding of Abbotsford.

Did Layton-Chow stand uo and take the heat? Are you kidding me? So-called Deputy Leader Libby Davies (so-called because everyone knows CHow's the real Deputy) was left to take the full force of the public's scorn and disgust because the charges were bogus and the NDP has had a letter from Elelctions Canada that it kept secret even though it cleared the Liberals of any wrong doing. Not that the NDP saw the error of their ways and was trying to odo the right thing. Oh no, they were forced into it when they lost a lawsuit and so there was Davies telling the House of Commons that "a candidate's character and conduct has been improperly put under a cloud by our team's actions." And where were Layton-Chow? No where near any microphone or TV lens that could catch them making the apology themselves, as they should have done. But then leadership isn't really their forte, is it?

What's sad is that this is the second time the NDP have been caught, behaving reprehensively and clearly wrong in their determination to blacken the name of anyone who stand against them. The second time? The ridiculous claim that Alliance MP James Moore had been looking at soft porn while in the House of COmmons. Turns out Moore was just looking at some rather salacious photos of his girl friend. It's a valid criticism of Moore that he was looking at photos of her while we are paying him to attend to the nation's business but that's another matter altogether. But
what he wasn't doing was looking at soft porn as the knee dippers claimed.

And of course there was the action of the party in piling on Ralph Goodale and claiming he was responsible for the possible leaking of information about income trusts when he was Minister of Finance. It came at a critical point in the election campaign and gave the Alliance the impetus it needed to defeat the government.

Three strikes, three glaring misses. Time to throw these bozos out.