By Montreal Simon It couldn’t have been a more pathetic sight. An angry Stephen Harper lashing out at everybody but himself. Looking absolutely desperate, and sounding like a robot. From cbc.ca: “Growing visibly more angry with every allegation coming from a senator that he appointed, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during question period on Tuesday […]
Nigel Wright
Perps with Perks (“It’s getting crowded in here” edition)
By Alison@Creekside Welcome, Con chief counsel Arthur Hamilton, to Perps with Perks for your part in the Senate scandal — Wrighting a cheque to Mike Duffy’s lawyer — “CON FUNDS $13,560” — while Duffy was under investigation to pay off his legal bills and shut him up so as not to arouse the Wrath of […]
Duffy: More where that came from
By Montreal Simon Well as you know I’ve long predicted that Mike Duffy would be Stephen Harper’s nemesis. That he knew enough to expose the conniving thugs in the PMO and their shameless scams. And today he appears to have done just that. From the Globe and Mail: “Disgraced Senator Mike Duffy says the infamous […]
What’s in the Duffy e-mails?
By Alison@Creekside According to Mike Duffy, the PMO blackmailed him into taking a bribe to save his own skin and that of the Cons from the wrath of their base. Questions … It seems no amount of $90K carrots or Senate expulsion sticks were spared to shut down that Duffy/Deloitte senate audit. Where was it […]
Text of Duffy: “I met the Prime Minister and Nigel Wright. Just the three of us.”
Sen. Mike Duffy addressed the Senate Tuesday evening regarding allegations of misspending and the motion to suspend him. Here is the text of his notes. Honourable Senators, I rise today against the orders of my doctors who fear my heart condition has worsened after months of unrelenting stress. However the sad truth is, I allowed […]
No reporters allowed (speaking of STFU)
By Alison@Creekside At his last Con caucus meeting and presser five months ago, Harper so disliked the grilling he got from media about Nigel Wright’s cheque to Senator Mike Duffy and what Steve knew about it — see above — that today he decided to allow only cameras into his pre-throne speech caucus meeting without […]
Humpty Harper?
By Montreal Simon Well I see that the former Law Clerk of Parliament believes that Mike Duffy may have committed no crime. Rob Walsh, who was Parliament’s top legal adviser until 2012, says in theory, a criminal offence would occur if money was given to a senator in exchange for some kind of benefit. But […]
Nigel’s PMO cash drawer
By Montreal Simon First they told us that Nigel Wright cut a $90,000 cheque to help his old pal Mike Duffy. Because he’s that kind of guy eh? Then when it turned out the two men hardly knew each other, they claimed Wright did it to save the taxpayers. But what they didn’t tell us […]
Harper’s Parade of Perps, Part 4
By Alison@Creekside Please welcome Senators David Tkachuk, Marjory LeBreton and Carolyn Stewart Olsen to the growing family scandal of Steve’s Parade of Perps with Perks. Click here to enjoy them full-size. While Steve is still going with the lone-topgun-Chief-of-Staff-on-the-Duffy-knoll-with-chequebook story, his perps at home are busy fucking that up for him. We were most relieved […]
Duffy’s $90,000 is chump change
By David@Sixthestate.net As my commenters were happy to point out, my last post on Senator Mike Duffy and Conservative political strategy was hilariously mistimed, since Duffy resigned from the Conservative caucus mere hours later. I’ll cop to it: I was wrong, and superceded by events. There hasn’t been such a momentous blunder since Globe and […]
