Sunday, March 06, 2005

The Dither Whirlitzer

The Proconsul's Fiefdom
Ottawa, Ontario


His Gucciness is at it again:

"The Bush administration said Prime Minister Paul Martin backed away from a longstanding commitment to participate in the U.S. missile defence program.

U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci said Mr. Martin had been sending strong signals for some time that Canada would take part in the scheme to protect North America from incoming missiles.

"We were given that impression in a very direct way for a long time," Mr. Cellucci said Sunday on CTV's Question Period.

Mr. Cellucci's comments were aired one day after U.S. President George W. Bush told Mr. Martin in a telephone conversation that any controversy over Canada's decision not to participate in missile defence was behind them..."

So, is this just the whacked-out work of an overzealous ambassador who thinks he's actually the proconsul of a defacto BushCo subsidiary?

We think not (at least not the whacky part).

Especially given that Karl Rove now makes foreign, as well as domestic, policy decisions.

All of which set us to wondering, is Our Paul now officially a target of the Rovian slime and defend machine?

And would the Rovians go looking for correspondents of foreign magazines to send out the first blast of the sticky green stuff?

Naaaaaa.

After all, it's not like they've ever done that kind of thing domestically, right?

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