MP = member of Parliament. Roughly analogous to a House Representative in the US.
To be perfectly fair to Stephen Harper (who remains a loser despite what I'm about to stay) this was a perfunctory bit of election promise fulfillment. He promised the social conservative nutjob wing of his party that he'd re-open the issue of same-sex marriage. So he held this vote, which was not actually a vote on repealing same-sex marriage, but rather a vote on whether they should, maybe, at some point in the future, think about having a debate to talk about maybe having a vote on whether they should look at repealing same-sex marriage, despite knowing that he'd get his ass kicked, so he could stand up and say 'Hey, you know, I tried, but those meanie Liberals and nasty NDPers and nutty french dudes said no.' And the nutjob wing of his party would believe him, because after all, that's what they do best.
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Canada still does it better than we do. *mumble*
Speaking of ignorance... what's an MP?
Posted by: Tony aka Shantybones | December 8, 2006 9:23 AM
MP = member of Parliament. Roughly analogous to a House Representative in the US.
To be perfectly fair to Stephen Harper (who remains a loser despite what I'm about to stay) this was a perfunctory bit of election promise fulfillment. He promised the social conservative nutjob wing of his party that he'd re-open the issue of same-sex marriage. So he held this vote, which was not actually a vote on repealing same-sex marriage, but rather a vote on whether they should, maybe, at some point in the future, think about having a debate to talk about maybe having a vote on whether they should look at repealing same-sex marriage, despite knowing that he'd get his ass kicked, so he could stand up and say 'Hey, you know, I tried, but those meanie Liberals and nasty NDPers and nutty french dudes said no.' And the nutjob wing of his party would believe him, because after all, that's what they do best.
Posted by: jacquilynne | December 8, 2006 9:30 AM