Perhaps James McLeod of the Telegram can let us know if he got anywhere with the Premier as she continued to attack critics and psychoanalyse them.
In Dunderdale's discussion with the reporter, she managed to focus more on her critics than on anything of substance.
First off the mark is Ms. Dunderdale's assessment that the year has been good once you get past the "political noise". She is in politics right?
Next our Premier "wished people could set aside political posturing and gamesmanship".
Followed up with this assessment regarding the fishery, Dunderdale dismissed a lot of the rhetoric as “foolishness” and said,
“I would like to cut through all of these agendas and positions and so
on.”
Muskrat Falls? Well Dunderdale says the constant drumbeat of criticism from the Liberal Opposition
was mostly picking away at tiny “snapshots” of the project, instead of
considering the larger picture.
As for the House of Assembly our great leader said The criticism for leaving the House closed was driven mostly by the NDP and a handful of pundits online.
And how does our Premier know this? “I’ve got a Twitter account; I know who’s making the noise. It’s the
same people who are making the noise about everything else, and it’s
politically driven,”
And this from the partisan of the year - “I think it’s really important to discriminate between what’s political noise driven within the machine of a party.”
Then the most telling line of the article by McLeod: Dunderdale argued that leaving the legislature closed doesn’t really matter to ordinary people.
Then the leader of the Progressive Conservatives demonstrated her math skills by saying: “We’ve got more political representatives on the ground than any other
political party; we have more volunteers than any other political party
in this province, and we have more supporters of a dozen different
ilks,” she said. “We’re not out of touch with what people are saying,
and this is not an issue.”
Let's end this "enlightening" piece of fluff with this: The thing about politics, Dunderdale said, is that when you fail, you fail publicly.
“There’s a lot of risk involved in it,” she said, but added that in
the past year, she can’t think of any time when she’s faced that sort of
public failure.
If McLeod was any more successful in asking the Premier to answer specifically who and what she is talking about - he's not letting on. Just another day of media allowing the Premier to throw out innuendo in an attempt to warn her critics that she has them psychoanalysed and is watching them.
Sue's Blog will take each of the Premier's comments and blog individually on them.
2 comments:
someone should let her in on the joke that her outfit for on point looked like something the wicked witch of the west would wear. fitting though it may be to compare the woman to a witch, she in no way compares to the bully who just won't let go of it. seems williams is in the news more than her these days with his reflections, ice hockey show and now his very own city of all things. interesting year 2012 will be, wonder who'll be standing when it all hits the fan?
Sue, I wonder where all of the "New Energy" went. Where is her vision for the next four years? It seems to me that if she is more concerned with the "few" bloggers and others who criticize her positions than she is is giving us some idea of her plans for the future, she's worn down already. After all, there's just a few of them. Right?
Sadly for Ms Dunderdale, when she actually puts forth a plan, there will be lots of critics! That's the nature of the beast! If she's tired now, wait until the HOA does open. Will there be enough "new energy" to keep it open for at least 30 days?
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