{"id":1281,"date":"2009-10-16T09:42:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2009-10-16T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:42:34","slug":"new-twist-to-tax-and-spend-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"New Twist To &quot;Tax and Spend Liberal&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, columnist Michael Harris <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ottawasun.com\/11418656.1\" target=\"_blank\">pinned the tail on the Iggy<\/a> when he addressed Iggy&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221;  love for the environment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who has just been knocked down by a bus doesn&#8217;t usually get up and jump in front of a train.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has done just that with the announcement that the &#8220;heart&#8221; of the Liberal platform in the next federal election will be the environment and clean energy. Has a political death wish ever been expressed more clearly? And didn&#8217;t they try that, albeit in reverse, in the last federal bun fight?<\/p>\n<p>The plan under Stephane Dion was a carbon tax; the Ignatieff approach is oceanic government spending on clean energy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the key is this next line. If we were using hockey analogies, this next line is the equivalent of &#8220;putting it top shelf where mama keeps the peanut butter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Between these two professors, the traditional Liberal bases have been covered tax and spend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Iggy is the &#8220;Spend&#8221; to Dion&#8217;s &#8220;Tax&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Sent via Borgberry cybernetic implant. (You too will be assimilated)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, columnist Michael Harris pinned the tail on the Iggy when he addressed Iggy&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221; love for the environment. A man who has just been knocked down by a bus doesn&#8217;t usually get up and jump in front of a train. Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has done just that with the announcement that the &#8220;heart&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}