The biggest liability in the room

When the members of the Liberal caucus jettisoned two former Trudeau cabinet ministers, Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpot, they exhibited the essence of the herd mentality. Blinded by their belief in the political invincibility of Justin Trudeau, caucus members like Judy Sgro, Carolyn Bennett, Salma Zahid and the other female members of the Caucus couldn’t wait to throw out two of their best. We watched as the weasels took over the landscape denying Jody Wilson-Raybould an opportunity to return and continue her testimony before the Liberal-dominated Justice committee. They didn’t want to hear anything more. The weasels didn’t want to hear it even though Jane Philpot said there was more, and the Liberal-dominated Ethics committee was also denied the right to hear the more. Trudeau the Lesser didn’t want the more discussed. All efforts to shutdown the story of SNC Lavalin and the DPA were directed by the PMO and the rest of us knew it. So when a pollster came back with the numbers, it was obvious that Justin Trudeau was the biggest liability in the Liberal Caucus. 46% of those surveyed wanted him to resign. The Liberals may not know it but their leader has the qualities that can lead them back into the political wilderness.

Uncomprehending members of the Caucus threw out with venom Jane Philpot and Jody Wilson-Raybould.

They did so without contemplating the obvious, that the Prime Minister is the biggest liability in that caucus. It’s his arrogance, and mendacious portrayal of both, his disagreements with JWR, and the reason she had to be kicked out of caucus that would require right thinking members among the Liberals to come to a full stop and digest one of the latest polls calling on the Prime Minister to resign. 46% said resign!

Obviously the lead weasel is the Prime Minister who leaked stories to the Star and the CBC about a power play involving the PMO and JWR. Dutifully, like the PM knew they would, both media outlets reported the stories. Now some Canadians might have believed the yarn about a power struggle, most assuredly Koolaid drinking Liberals would, but it doesn’t take a mensa member to look at the players to figure out Le Canard! She is a former cabinet minister, He is the Prime Minister! A power struggle? Please!

So they threw her out and threw dirt on her and said nasty things about her. But the biggest liability in the Liberal Caucus remains. Justin Trudeau, member of Parliament for Papineau, is the puppeteer in chief.

Who was managing the campaign to wring a concession from the country’s Attorney-General with respect to SNC Lavalin? Who recruited his top toadies (high officials like Butts, Wernick, Morneau) to point out to JWR that Lavalin was a “signature” company that was in need of our compassion? Who passed along the word to Madame Attorney-General that the puppet master was quite determined to win for his good friends at the “signature” company in QUEBEC! When the four month harangue failed to get you know who his victory, he shuffled Madame to a lesser portfolio. And who accepted her resignation from the cabinet? And then when the Globe and Mail reported that JWR had been subjected to unceasing bursts of lobbying by the PMO, who denied the story?

But thank goodness the Attorney-General’s head was on straight. Faced with the continuing harangue from the Trudeau juggernaut, knowing that the Prime Minister’s people would lie about the intensity of the lobbying, she devised a brilliant plan. She turned on a tape machine and for posterity recorded the words of Michael Wernick, Clerk of the Privy Council, who spoke to the SNC Lavalin problem that she was creating. Later when Wernick testified to members of the Justice committee, he of course had a different version. The Wrong version. We now know the rest of that story.

Forward to the day the Liberal Caucus jettisoned Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpot. The biggest Caucus Liability remained. Because he has trouble separating fact from fiction, cannot admit to making a grievous mistake, and while his manner of speaking is breezy, he cannot communicate sincerity and heart-searching observations. He could have scored a ten-bagger with his Caucus and the country by getting off his high horse and delivering what we should expect from a man who wants to do the right thing. But he didn’t.

He needed to convince the Caucus members that this standoff must come to an end for the sake of the members present, the national party and the country. He would have been within his rights to walk back much of the ongoing anti-JWR and Philpot palaver and the more virulent caucus misstatements about these two fine women who have asked to remain “with us.” He needed to say justice is not served by giving SNC Lavalin a free pass. He could have admitted making a mistake! His rallying cry should have been, “We need them, you need them, we can work it out.”

So what did he do instead and because he didn’t have a legitimate, honest reason for kicking JWR out of Caucus? He devised what he and his advisers felt was a winning play, throw dirt at the woman, make her the heavy! He included Jane Philpot in this juvenile self righteous diatribe but no one knows why.

Trudeau’s big reveal zeroed in on the tape but of course he refused to acknowledge that the message delivered on the tape proved the woman he was vilifying spoke truth. He knew it but didn’t have the mojo to admit it. Instead:

He said, “if a politician secretly records a conversation with anyone, it’s wrong. When that cabinet minister is the Attorney-General of Canada secretly recording the Clerk of the Privy Council, it is unconscionable.”

Pardon me while I take a moment to characterize these quotes: this is Rama-Lama Ding Dong stuff by Ishkabibble.

There is a good use for recording devices and despite Trudeau’s babble about what’s “wrong” and “unconscionable”, Jody Wilson-Raybould used hers to catch the country’s political braintrust in a lie and a cover-up and that’s why he threw her out to the cheers of the weasels who didn’t understand that their hero is still the biggest liability in the caucus!

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