Different Drummers
Who needs the IRS when this can clean up 18% of tax default problems within one week?
And speaking of messes that need to be cleaned up, Marlene Jennings, Canada's Parliamentary Secretary for Canada-U.S. relations, tore off on a rant on Thursday, accusing the United States of refusing to adhere to trade treaties it had signed with Canada. One way to strike back, she suggested, was to publicly humiliate the U.S. in front of international audiences.
"Let's embarrass the hell out of the Americans in front of other countries that they are attempting to negotiate with on new binational trade agreements ... let's just do it on the public scene," she stated to a parliamentary committee.
"The Liberals have once again shown their anti-American bias ... This strategy is like poking someone in the eye and then asking them for a favor," Conservative legislator Diane Finley told Parliament, referring to Canada's delicate negotiations with Washington regarding the current U.S. ban on live Canadian cattle due to concerns over mad-cow disease.
Last November, MP Carolyn Parrish was booted out of the Liberal caucus after she stomped on a George Bush doll on a satirical TV show.
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