So let's end 2013 on a light note, dear diary.
Who do you think has been the most obnoxious politician of the past year? Is it America's Anthony Weiner or Canada's Rob Ford? Oh, how about Mike Duffy?
OK, I just eliminated Duffy, not because he was sweetness and light, but he really isn't a politician. Senators like to play at politics, but they aren't politicians, they never get elected, and in my realm of contest qualifiers, you ain't a politician until you're elected. So MD does not qualify. Too bad, but those are the rules that I just made up that can't be challenged.
So let's call it a tie. Weiner is the American obnoxious MVP and Ford gets the Canadian title. Weiner is the former congressman and wannabe mayor of New York who can't resist playing hide and seek with his private parts with selfie photos that he insists on sending out to innocent cyberspace users.
The Canadian winner, by a long shot this year, is Toronto's own little Bobby Ford, well, not so little. He's a big guy in many ways, including ego. Let's just say he has provided Canadians and even a few million global viewers endless hours of laughs and chuckles along his journey. And guess what? He's probably gonna get re-elected. I guess Torontonians love the idea of a scoundrel in the big chair at city hall.
And speaking of big chairs, those politicians who are real politicians in Ottawa, are having sooo much fun with the Senate scandal aren't they? This whole mess has been going on since February 2013, and it hasn't even begun to subside yet. There are new revelations coming out almost weekly. These exterior shots of what is going on in the interior chambers of Ottawa are delightfully amusing. I don't know about you, but I'm not tired of hearing about these shamble scrambles at all. I check in with CBC and CTV news channels on a regular basis just to get caught up on the daily mumbles coming from the PMO or from an opposition ego puncher. I have to say I haven't checked out the namby pamby one topic, with 84 talking head experts at CNN for over two months.
From what I understand on the Canadian news networks, the U.S. is still trying to wrap their heads around Medicare and how it's supposed to work as opposed to how they think it should work. And if it doesn't work well, somebody will probably shoot somebody and the NRA will approve the message.
So nope, Obama and Weiner and even Sarah and Boehner are on my B list for nightly entertainment on the news front these past few months.
Our Canadian naughty fools are well ahead of them, beginning with Duff and Bobby and followed up by Pammy (haven't heard about her tribulations lately, maybe she's still being audited), Patrick, Mac and Harvey. There is still Judy and those others in the Senate who have filled our hearts and heads with joyful sounds of denials and accusations let alone, you know who, the heart and soul of the whole franchise of jolly tricksters, Stevie Wonder, that Harper boy.
Who would have thought way back in 2012 that Canadian politicians and wanna be politicos would be entertaining the world the way they have been. And these games promise to continue well into 2014. I can hardly wait.
