{"id":45657,"date":"2021-04-11T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45657"},"modified":"2021-04-10T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T14:58:00","slug":"qotd-canadas-natural-governing-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/04\/11\/qotd-canadas-natural-governing-party\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Canada&#8217;s &#8220;Natural Governing Party&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Need I bring to your attention the utter gall of a leading member of &#8220;Canada&#8217;s natural governing party&#8221; accusing the Bush Republicans of running a one party state. Didn&#8217;t the Yanks just have a bruising knock &#8217;em down, electoral race that had all the thrills and spills of Northern Dancer winning the Queen&#8217;s Plate.<\/p>\n<p>Checks and balances? Canada? Third parties can&#8217;t even participate fully in electoral campaigns here. Checks and balances are very few in this centralized, caucus whipped, PMO-run federal government. Let us pass on quickly lest the good doctor\/statesman becomes completely embarrassed by his own rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>John the Mad, <a href=\"http:\/\/surgite.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/lloyds-unworthy-letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Lloyd&#8217;s Unworthy Letter&#8221;, <em>John the Mad<\/em><\/a>, 2005-03-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need I bring to your attention the utter gall of a leading member of &#8220;Canada&#8217;s natural governing party&#8221; accusing the Bush Republicans of running a one party state. Didn&#8217;t the Yanks just have a bruising knock &#8217;em down, electoral race that had all the thrills and spills of Northern Dancer winning the Queen&#8217;s Plate. Checks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53,41],"tags":[908],"class_list":["post-45657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-liberalparty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bSp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65111,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45657\/revisions\/65111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}