this election is giving me an ulcer
Monday, January 23, 2006
So my wife and daughter and I are all sitting somewhat uncomfortably in front of the tv, wondering just who the hell is going to be in charge of Canada come tomorrow morning.
It's election night again for the second time in 18 months, and never in my lifetime has the outcome of an election been so much in doubt. Will it be the Scandalized Liberals? The Crazy-as-Fuck right leaning Conservatives? Those folk music playinghippies NDP?
And while we sit here and wait for the results to begin in a few minutes as they are released across the country, first from the Maritimes, then Quebec and Ontario, then the Prairies and finally BC, we are subjected to all manner of political punditry, running the gambit from what will happen to our Health Care system to whether there will be yet another referendum on Quebec separating from Canada.
Man, I wasn't this worked up yesterday when I had to bite my nails to see if the Steelers would make it into the Superbowl.
All I know for sure right now is that if we have a Conservative PM tomorrow morning, the rich will soon get richer, the poor poorer, the sick will have less access to health care, and the rights of women to choose and homosexuals to marry will soon disappear. And it will be illegal again to be in possession of even minute amounts of marijuana.
That, and that it's going to be a long night.
It's election night again for the second time in 18 months, and never in my lifetime has the outcome of an election been so much in doubt. Will it be the Scandalized Liberals? The Crazy-as-Fuck right leaning Conservatives? Those folk music playing
And while we sit here and wait for the results to begin in a few minutes as they are released across the country, first from the Maritimes, then Quebec and Ontario, then the Prairies and finally BC, we are subjected to all manner of political punditry, running the gambit from what will happen to our Health Care system to whether there will be yet another referendum on Quebec separating from Canada.
Man, I wasn't this worked up yesterday when I had to bite my nails to see if the Steelers would make it into the Superbowl.
All I know for sure right now is that if we have a Conservative PM tomorrow morning, the rich will soon get richer, the poor poorer, the sick will have less access to health care, and the rights of women to choose and homosexuals to marry will soon disappear. And it will be illegal again to be in possession of even minute amounts of marijuana.
That, and that it's going to be a long night.
posted by raistlinsghost at 1/23/2006 09:31:00 PM
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