Mama's Got A Squeeze Box

"..She goes in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out. 'Cause she's playin' all night, and the music's alright. Mama's got a squeeze box, daddy never sleeps at night." -- Squeeze Box by The Who

Ah, the so-called "In and Out" scandal that has Elections Canada going after some Conservative campaigners, some now senators.  The so-called scandal that has opposition members reeling against the Harper government.  The so-called scandal that already has the courts dismiss it.

Well, superblogger Stephen Taylor has screenshots from Elections Canada own website that shows people from ALL the parties have done it.  So why is Elections Canada only going after Conservatives?

Ooh, big bad Immigration Minister Jason Kenney had a staffer who made the dumb move of using government letterhead to ask for donations to the party, with one of the letters going to Edmonton NDP MP Linda Duncan.  But said MP also had a staffer use government email to do a similar thing.  No one's calling for her to resign. Don't really see a "scandal" here folks.

Ooh, Minister Bev Oda wrote "^Not" on a document to prevent further funding of a human rights group.  Sorry, not a scandal.  Bad document management?  Yes.

And how about prison costs which the Liberals are claiming the government isn't releasing info on.

Then they complain about the Conservatives using "Harper Government" saying the government doesn't belong to one man but belongs to all the people.  Well, the Prime Minister serves all the people and you Liberal folk didn't seem to mind when people called it the Martin or Chretien government.  Seriously? This is an issue?

Then today, they are calling for the Harper government to do more to in Libya to prevent Gaddafi from retaking the country.


So see how the Liberals are nitpicking at everything?  They're trying to build momentum in the eyes of the public against the Harper government.  All interesting timing considering that there is a looming election with the Liberals possibly triggering a non-confidence motion.

Unfortunately for the Liberals, this approach appears to be backfiring.  I don't know about you but when someone nitpicks so much, I just tune out and find it annoying.

Just like mama's squeeze box.