You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Same with our new Conservative government in Ottawa. Harper ran away from the traditional photo op press scrum opening day of his first cabinet meeting. Black cars carrying the new cabinet and to their Meech lake retreat sped past the media. Yep arrogance and smugness. Welcome to Ottawa, Alberta. The media is about to get a taste of what the media, the public, the voters, the taxpayers of Alberta have faced for 13 years under Love and Klein. Harper brings the same paranoid secretaive governing style as he ran his party with, and as the Calgary gang runs Alberta. Clearly this week Harper has been PM, chief strategist, chief policy wonk and chief media coordinator. Because we have returned to the old politics of the Alliance and the Alberta Tories. Which may go over in Airdrie and Red Deer but won't fly in Ottawa. The media in Ottawa is political, it has teeth and you don't shut them out like you do the media in Alberta. So Rod Love better be prepared to wipe that smug look off his mug he is playing with the big boys now, not the backroom boys he is used to. Mr. Harper had better hire some communications people quick, like yesterday, and should reconsider the wisdom of not appointing a deputy PM. He should also drop the cone of silence routine, that may sell in Calgary but it's political suicide in Ottawa. Read the rest fo the article at: http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2006/02/you-aint-seen-nothing-yet.html

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