As In: Patrick, Mike and Pamela
When I was younger …okay much younger, I used to watch the Three Stooges on television. It drove my mother crazy … I can still hear her say “Keith how can you watch such drivel”.
My answer was always the same…’I find them funny’.
I find Patty, Mikey and Pammy just as funny.
Here we have three characters given the appointment of a lifetime – to the Senate of Canada – no real work and RESPECT from the great unwashed …i.e. those who pay for the Stooges’ inflated salaries and for their considerable perks such as free travel passes for rail and air.
You would think that would be more than sufficient compensation for them …but no… the three have been caught with their collective hands in the taxpayers’ pockets grasping for more.
This is all sad of course and in this they do not resemble the famous three comedians.
No, the funny part – indeed the hilarious part – is that they are all appealing for ‘due process’ before their perks are taken away from them.
Where was the due process for the lowly taxpayer as they padded their expense accounts?
So to watch them beg for justice is a bit rich.
But surprisingly, many are falling for their collective charade – some even want them totally pardoned – others, would be content to have them go on paid leave. And good luck getting of that pay back when the eventual findings go against them –as they will, since the only issue now outstanding is the scale of their greed.
And the guy who defends the right to have taxpayer monies respected – our Prime Minister, is vilified in some quarters – most notably the left leaning media – for being too mean spirited.
It is to laugh out loud.
But there is something in all of this that is forgotten.
We are not dealing with common criminals or the falsely accused – who granted, would be entitled to the Rule of Law and all it can offer.
Rather, we are dealing with Politicians – where optics is in many respects more important than the truth itself.
Robert Stanfield – the best Prime Minister Canada never had – lost out many say because he was caught on camera eating a banana.
Joe Who – lost his luggage – and never lived it down.
Politics is not ordinary life – much depends on perception – for instance if a Party has members who are viewed as being too extreme – for the benefit of the rest – a Leader needs to distance the Party from them.
If you have members who are viewed as being too extravagant with the taxpayer’s dime – they too need to be cut loose a.s.a.p. for fear that the rest will end up being tarred with the same brush – e.g. Bev Oda and her $16 glass of orange juice.
Bevy did not receive ‘due process’ but as a politician, she got her just desserts.
When it comes to humour, the original Three Stooges are amateurs when up against the likes of Patty, Mikey and Pammy. But the three disgraced Senators are not alone – I suspect many of the Senate colleagues are shaken in their boots for fear that their own returns will sooner or late be exposed for audit.
Given the tears of laughter generated by the Senate Three – just imagine the hilarity that would result if up to 100 of their co-frares were also implicated.
That said, long time readers will know my opinion of the Senate – a place for Hacks, Flacks and Ne’re-Do- Wells.
Patty, Mikey and Pammy have lived up to my low expectations of them.
And while our media is transfixed with their antics, the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight – McGuinty / Wynne et al continue fleecing Ontarians out of Billions of Dollars.
The laughter continues and as the original three would have said…
YUK, YUK.
As I see it…
“K.D. Galagher’
