That giant pot-hole on the political highway in front of Stephen Harper is the trial of Mike Duffy.
Put it in the bank; there is no deal or deal-making in the works from Duffy or his legal team. If his trial is cancelled or postponed, it will be because of actions taken by the Crown, or God, but not Duffy.
Because Ol' Duff is apparently going for broke, and although Boss Harper has managed to dodge the bullet so far.
Prime Minister Harper has managed to convict and punish his enemies without the nuisance of a hearing. They enter their trials with the aura of guilt already upon them.
If what Duffy's lawyer says is true:
The evidence will show that Sen. Duffy did not want to participate in Nigel Wright’s and the PMO’s repayment scenario, which they concocted for purely political purposes. There is much that is offensive here. But the evidence will show that it did not emanate from Sen. Duffy.”
Harper will be in big trouble.
Perhaps it all emanated from the dark forces Hugh Segal warned of in his farewell speech last June. If so, April could prove the cruellest month for a prime minister who has so far been allowed to be the judge in his own cause.
And as if that wasn't bad enough, now he also has to worry about what his once faithful flunky flak Dimitri Soudas might also say about him.
Because Dimitri once said Harper was like a father to him.
But he knows where all the bodies are buried, and like Duffy he knows all the dirty stories, so who knows what he might say now that he hates Big Daddy for humiliating him and his darling Eve?
Or what filthy secrets he might spill?
Soudas has a long history in the party and was often the one who fixed problems for Harper. He'd know which MPs have colourful elements in their pasts that they don't want revealed "He knows what it is to play very tough hardball, as they say, to put on the brass knuckles," Day said.
Or what buttons he might press to drive Stephen Harper CRAAAAZY.
But as Michael Harris points out, the biggest monkey on his back is probably still Mike Duffy.
Put it in the bank; there is no deal or deal-making in the works from Duffy or his legal team. If his trial is cancelled or postponed, it will be because of actions taken by the Crown, or God, but not Duffy.
Because Ol' Duff is apparently going for broke, and although Boss Harper has managed to dodge the bullet so far.
Prime Minister Harper has managed to convict and punish his enemies without the nuisance of a hearing. They enter their trials with the aura of guilt already upon them.
If what Duffy's lawyer says is true:
The evidence will show that Sen. Duffy did not want to participate in Nigel Wright’s and the PMO’s repayment scenario, which they concocted for purely political purposes. There is much that is offensive here. But the evidence will show that it did not emanate from Sen. Duffy.”
Harper will be in big trouble.
Perhaps it all emanated from the dark forces Hugh Segal warned of in his farewell speech last June. If so, April could prove the cruellest month for a prime minister who has so far been allowed to be the judge in his own cause.
And as if that wasn't bad enough, now he also has to worry about what his once faithful flunky flak Dimitri Soudas might also say about him.
Because Dimitri once said Harper was like a father to him.
But he knows where all the bodies are buried, and like Duffy he knows all the dirty stories, so who knows what he might say now that he hates Big Daddy for humiliating him and his darling Eve?
Or what filthy secrets he might spill?
Soudas has a long history in the party and was often the one who fixed problems for Harper. He'd know which MPs have colourful elements in their pasts that they don't want revealed "He knows what it is to play very tough hardball, as they say, to put on the brass knuckles," Day said.
Or what buttons he might press to drive Stephen Harper CRAAAAZY.
But as Michael Harris points out, the biggest monkey on his back is probably still Mike Duffy.
