{"id":724,"date":"2007-01-30T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2007-01-30T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T21:03:08","slug":"double-smackdown-john-baird-serves-up-double-trouble-to-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Double Smackdown &#8211; John Baird Serves Up Double Trouble To Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew when the PM mixed up the Rubik&#8217;s Cubinet on us a few weeks ago that he did it for a solid reason.  After two days of watching Question Period, I now know why.<\/p>\n<p>1)  I am glad Monte Solberg is in the forefront with HRDC.  He is a sharp witted man who can really handle himself in Oral Questions.  Diane Finley did fine, but Monte has a magic touch in the verbal sparring department.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image723\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/solberg.jpg\" alt=\"Monte Solberg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But more importantly,<\/p>\n<p>2)  The PM put John Baird, the equivalent of debating juggernaut into the environment portfolio.  Watch him dismantle the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the member from Ajax-Pickering (while giving a subtle shot at the member from Wascana) in today&#8217;s oral question period.<\/p>\n<p>(Click the video below once to start the show)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"329\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HouCOMEJKGY\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HouCOMEJKGY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"329\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you cannot see the video play above, try clicking the following link instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HouCOMEJKGY\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HouCOMEJKGY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew when the PM mixed up the Rubik&#8217;s Cubinet on us a few weeks ago that he did it for a solid reason. After two days of watching Question Period, I now know why. 1) I am glad Monte Solberg is in the forefront with HRDC. He is a sharp witted man who can [&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":[19,34,52,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-moonbattery","category-politics-federal","category-smackdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}