Liberals Mel culpa in the National Post

Poor old John McCallum who is finance critic for the Liberal Party of Canada and the official opposition who are propping up the Harper government wrote a Mel culpa in the National Post today. As we all well know, the Liberal Party of Canada has completely caved into Harper and the Conservatives, after months of Ignatieff's high-fullutin' rhetoric about

"helping Canadians", about "pay equity for women" and about "the green economy", after all the drama of the past couple of months, all Ignatieff wanted was three reports. His kingdom for three reports.

Meanwhile, John McCallum stays "silent" and on the "mute button" in the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance as they DON'T debate the budget bill, C-10, as they abandon social and union rights.
So McCallum offers the Liberal's Mel culpa in why they "swallowed easily" those "poison pills", where only a short while ago they were "talking tough."

McCallum, in "talking tough" Liberal rhetoric mode he writes,

Michael Ignatieff and the Liberals will be watching like hawks to see whether this Conservative government delivers. The quarterly updates which we have forced the government to produce will provide Canadians with transparency (except that those reports are already mandatory so who are the Liberals kidding - Canadians?).

Well, Stickings in the Guardian rips off the liberal's "fig leaf" of "do nothing" but "talk tough"

The key issue in Canada remains the economy, but where is Ignatieff on the economy? It was reported before the budget was tabled that he was "developing his own alternative stimulus plan for the Canadian economy with a close circle of advisers," but there weren't any specifics. "I think what Canadians want us to do is to have a budget at the end of January that protects the most vulnerable in our society," he said, which is all well and good, but high-falutin' rhetoric and the request for three reports just don't cut it. When presented with the opportunity to take a stand and help Canada's "most vulnerable", he backed down and cowered behind his political calculations and personal aspirations. He doesn't even seem to grasp the historic nature of the economic crisis, which he has called "once-in-a-generation". It is likely going to turn out to be far worse than that.

Ouch!

So after McCallum listed all the flaws in the budget the liberals are "silently" supporting and accused the Conservatives of "no vision", we see that Liberals also have "no vision" and provided "empty promises" - again. Their "big stick" is a joke.

Thank goodness the NDP and Mulcair are standing up - again - for the "most vulnerable Canadians," "women's rights," "the environment", and "social and union rights."

Liberals have no shame.

How about growing a spin, as talk is cheap in the National Post - and laughable!