Seems like an uneven battle to me.
For those of you whom haven't see the segement where Duffy and Stoffer battle it out on CBC, it is below.
After reading some of the coverage and press about this I was expecting a much worse confrontation. Instead, we get this, disappointing and somewhat childish exchange.
To me both sides look like amatures.
Duffy looks positively Liberal with his constant interuptions. I find on average Liberals, tend to interrupt other speakers more often then either the NDP or Conservative pundits, MPs, or party hacks. Stoffer looks like the back-bencher he is, "I don't have my report", what's up with that? Come to the nationally televised show prepared next time buddy.
Don Martin chimes in with some rubbish, I am really not sure why Don Martin dislikes Duffy so much. Martin doesn't refute any of Duffy's points, other then to say Stoffer is amiable.
The original Canadian Press report that Duffy attacks can be read here.
Jane Taber has a few thoughts here as well.
What do you all think? What Duffy out of line with his attacks? Was Stoffer out of line by singling out Duffy? Chime in below.
My personal opinion is both were amature hour, Duffy was not professional, but was well researched, and Stoffer was ill-prepared (forgot his report) and unable to articulate anything else but "Harper appointed senators and he said he wouldn't". Maybe Stoffer didn't think he needed his report on left-leaning CBC?
3 comments:
The news host or the two MP´s failed to provide context for the Senate makeup today and in the past. It would have helped greatly. Singling out Duffy for the expenses was a bit beyond the pale but first and foremost the premise should include that the NDP wants the Senate abolished and that they have no members in the Senate to begin with. Sympathizers but no members.
Unspoken was the scenario that Harper should fall on his sword of Senate reform promises and not fill the three dozen seats that have come available because of promises or wishes he made before he formed gov´t.
Consider his minority gov´t falls and the Liberals become the new minority gov´t. Most people in this country know that the first thing they´d do is stack the Senate right to the brim with Liberal leaning folks to reinstate their majority as they´ve always done. So be it.
Harper requires constitutional reform in order to change or retire the Senate. If he delayed making appointments, then lost an election, he would be ridiculed to the end of time for being so high and mighty seeing the forest, but not the trees, Kind of like Joe Clark´s arithmatic problems in the HoC.
Stephen Harper by law is required to fill Senate vacancies. In the meantime, the true and proper action is to fill the appointments and wait for the opportunity to reform the august body. No bag jokes please.
'I am really not sure why Don Martin dislikes Duffy so much.'
Duffy has been on the scene for decades. He 'knows things'.
Remember when the Cadman-gate errupted,
Duffy told of a private conversation he had with Chuck, which really changed the narrative.
So I'm thinking that Libs and their Luvin media are on pins and needles, because,
Duffy knows things.
Duff pulled a Don Cherry, takes a bit to get used to.
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