the saga continues.....Beatty and the Beast: II

As the announcement of Stephan Dion's appointment of Joan Beatty in Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill Rivers spreads across Canada, outcry from all areas is been seeing, not only in the mainstream media but on Liberal Blogs.

Here are only a few of the many comments:

From our beloved friends at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation;
"We're not sure if Irish eyes will smile on her on St. Patrick's Day. Voters, some of which were in her old provincial riding, may not take kindly to someone who backed out on them so quickly before."

Premier Brad Wall states: "But we're just over a month from when the returns came in. It's hard to fathom that this wasn't a possibility known to others long before the decision she made here in the new year.

Lorne Calvert had this to say; ...calls Beatty's move a mistake saying if she wins the federal by-election she'll be a small voice in a large Opposition caucus. He instead thinks she should have gone with Layton's NDP. He goes as far as to refer to her as a "turncoat"

A BCer in Toronto Blog: "....If they had an appointment in mind for this riding they should have waved off Orchard long ago..."

Metis leader Jim Durocher says in an angry letter to Dion; "If this travesty occurs in Desnethe, if you sir lose sight of the basic proposition that the people of the north, be they my people, white or First Nation, have the basic right to select their own candidate, unless some emergency, I personally will not vote Liberal ... I suspect many others will in fact vote Conservative or stay home."

Murray Mandryck from the Leader Post: "At best, it appears Beatty likely got this appointment for the wrong reasons. At worst, it provides another example of what's wrong in politics today."

NewsTalk 650 Radio: "Beatty has some explaining to do. But – given this level of respect for voters -- don’t hold your breath. "

James Curran, over at "What do I know Grit" has a list of letters sent to both Dion and himself over the appointment.

"People in the Liberal Party of Canada have a national convention coming up at the end of this year. If that does not become a leadership convention, it would be an excellent opportunity to make specific changes to the constitution of the Liberal Party of Canada to limit the power of the leader to appoint candidates." writes blogger Jason Morris in Gauntlet.ca

The Canadian Sentinel is reporting: "Irate supporters of David Orchard are warning that Liberals will lose a coming by election in Saskatchewan now that Leader Stephane Dion has chosen to appoint an NDP defector as the party's candidate."

And then finally, you have the idiot comment of the week by Sask Party MLA, Dustin Duncan: ...:the NDP party should be paying for a byelection in the Cumberland constituency now that MLA Joan Beatty is quitting provincial politics and running for the federal Liberal party in an upcoming byelection." I have to thank Buckdog for letting me know that one!!

So as you see, Dion and his cronies, have lost a huge amount of support over his actions. Joan Beatty needs to seek counselling to try to figure out how she can represent First Nations and Metis from her basement and David Orchard should seek out a new membership card. There are still another couple parties out there.