Stories Liberals Tell: How Conservatives Can Win Back the Culture | Bill Whittle
Liberals have dominated the storytelling and culture making industries for some time now. So how do Conservatives win back the hearts and minds of America? Find out, as Bill Whittle takes a...
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Tony Abbott has declared that his governments disappointing result in the WA Senate election will only increase his resolve to scrap the carbon and mining taxes.
The Prime Minister has also described the dive in support for the Liberal Party at Saturdays Senate election re-run as a typical by-election result.
Primary votes for the Liberal and Labor parties have dropped about 5 per cent in the count thus far, while the Greens have picked up a swing of about 6 per cent.
Clive Palmers Palmer United Party, which outspent the Liberal Party by nearly 10 to one on television advertising, gained a swing of about 7.5 per cent.
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The rerun will give the Liberals two seats and Labors controversial Senate candidate Joe Bullock has won a seat.
The swing to the Greens is expected to see Scott Ludlam retain his seat, with the Palmer United Party, Labors Louise Pratt and Liberal Linda Reynolds fighting it out for the fifth and six seats.
The ABCs election analyst Antony Green has predicted PUP candidate Dio Wang and Ms Reynolds will claim the final two spots. On this result, the government would need to negotiate with Mr Palmers party in order to pass its legislation in the Senate.
Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, where the government is negotiating a free trade agreement, Mr Abbott said there was nothing in Saturdays vote to suggest that the voters have suddenly decided they love the carbon or mining tax.
Asked if he would move for a double dissolution on the carbon tax, Mr Abbott said he expected the new Senate from July 1 to respect the governments mandate.
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Liberals' vote dives in WA election
After reading letters by Harry Douglass Jr. (Dems & big money,' Dec. 6) and Marlene Haslett (Metcalfe's immigrants insult, Dec. 7) I have to ask: Don't people read what they write? Are they that liberal? Do they not think for themselves?
Mr. Douglass contends a majority of Americans favor gun control, a higher minimum wage, etc. and said he cannot understand why Democrat candidates do not voice those sentiments when running for office.
Does he not know the reason is the liberal media and politicians push these things, but the majority of Americans do not support those agendas? The candidates keep quiet because they want to win.
Ms. Haslett said she supports giving people a chance, but in doing so, she supports criminals. That's what these immigrants are, yet she believes they should be rewarded for breaking U.S. laws?
It's especially interesting to note that she points out that her own grandfather came to this country from Poland and insinuated that he settled here and raised a family here. My guess is her grandfather came here legally as my great-grandfather did. He did not sneak across the border at night like most of these undocumented immigrants and break U.S. laws.
Let's not ignore the truths and laws in our world, but instead stand firm to defend and support our laws and the U.S. Constitution.
Leonard Stanga
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Liberals & illegals
Emails recovered by police on seized computers from the McGuinty premiers office expose feverish and sometimes comical damage control efforts by Liberals scrambling to contain fallout from the gas plants scandal.
In the summer and fall of 2012, top officials to then-premier Dalton McGuinty were trying to downplay opposition estimates of the cost to axe power plants in Mississauga and Oakville before the 2011 election.
The emails, revealed in a 131-page OPP search warrant application, are peppered with the lingo of professional spin doctors.
One missive from former McGuinty deputy chief of staff Laura Miller centres on the hotly disputed cancellation costs that would later balloon from the $180 million first floated by the minority Liberal government.
We . . . need to pivot to the fact that the opposition said it would cost a billion to settle at the time, Miller wrote to several colleagues on July 11, 2012, three months before McGuinty announced his pending resignation and suspended the legislature mired in an uproar over the scandal.
Ironically, 14 months later, auditor general Bonnie Lysyk put the costs of cancelling the two plants and relocating them to Napanee and Sarnia at up to $1.1 billion over 20 years.
Looking for after-the-fact justifications for cancelling the Mississauga gas plant in the dying days of the election campaign, senior Liberal political staff exchanged a flurry of emails regarding the cancellation of the Mississauga gas plant.
There were questions as to whether the government had any standards on how far power plants should be located from residential areas.
My only concern about using the setback numbers is it appears (the Ministry of) Energy cant get any numbers right. EVER, Leon Korbee, a former TV reporter who now serves as a senior adviser to Premier Kathleen Wynne, wrote to Miller and other colleagues on July 16, 2012.
Former McGuinty communications director Wendy McCann, a veteran Canadian Press reporter, also cautioned against using any setback numbers at all.
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Bitter Liberals- Remodee
Franklin Park 12/13/14.
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