{"id":1954,"date":"2011-05-19T17:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2011-05-19T17:01:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T21:01:41","slug":"on-senate-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"On Senate Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all those lefty AND righty whiners complaining about Harper appointing Smith, Verner and Manning to the Senate&#8230;.Tough freaking noogies.  <\/p>\n<p>The Liberals had control of the Senate for 65 of the last 70 years.  And now that Harper has chosen to stuff it full of cronies all I hear is Wahhhhh Wahhhh Wahhhh.  Grow up people.  This is not TiddlyWinks or Go Fish.  It&#8217;s Big Boy Monopoly and Harper is playing by the rules.  He tried to change things and the other parties told him to go pound sand.  So now everyone else can go pound sand.<\/p>\n<p>He also told the provinces to nominate their own Senators and the PM would appoint them but only Alberta has chosen to do so.  Again, shame on the provinces for not taking advantage of this.<\/p>\n<p>I hope another 20 Senate appointments come up and that Harper shoves another 20 forty year old conservatives in the upper house.  Maybe when the other parties see that they will not regain control of the Senate until 2050 they may change their minds about Senate reform.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on rolling Mr. Prime Minister.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all those lefty AND righty whiners complaining about Harper appointing Smith, Verner and Manning to the Senate&#8230;.Tough freaking noogies. The Liberals had control of the Senate for 65 of the last 70 years. And now that Harper has chosen to stuff it full of cronies all I hear is Wahhhhh Wahhhh Wahhhh. Grow up [&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":[52,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-federal","category-senate-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","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=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}