{"id":52252,"date":"2024-06-19T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52252"},"modified":"2024-06-18T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:22:40","slug":"qotd-canadas-liberal-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/06\/19\/qotd-canadas-liberal-party-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Canada&#8217;s Liberal Party"},"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:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright 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>I keep replaying Scott Reid&#8217;s comment in my mind [&#8230;] &#8220;Paul Martin is the wire brush that will scrub clean this stain on Canadian politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, now, if you moved this metaphor any closer to the bathroom, there&#8217;d be no room for anybody to sit down. What have we come to when the communications director for the prime minister of Canada comes within an ace of referring to his own party as a filthy toilet in need of some elbow grease?<\/p>\n<p>Colby Cosh, <a href=\"http:\/\/colbycosh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>ColbyCosh.com<\/em><\/a>, 2005-04-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep replaying Scott Reid&#8217;s comment in my mind [&#8230;] &#8220;Paul Martin is the wire brush that will scrub clean this stain on Canadian politics.&#8221; Honestly, now, if you moved this metaphor any closer to the bathroom, there&#8217;d be no room for anybody to sit down. What have we come to when the communications director [&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":[6,57,53,41],"tags":[908,770,51],"class_list":["post-52252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-liberalparty","tag-paulmartin","tag-pr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dAM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252","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=52252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89777,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252\/revisions\/89777"}],"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=52252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}