Grow up already, and grab yourself a brain while your at it!

Senator Mike Duffy pretty much blew a gasket on Power & Politics, and called NDP MP Peter Stoffer a "faker" to his face for conducting nothing more than a "stunt", into which he dragged the Conservative Senator. His displeasure with the MSM for engaging the stunt was clearly obvious as well.

Stoffer is accusing PM Harper of hypocrisy for appointing 27 Senators that could, he says, cost taxpayers $177,000,000 before they're gone.

Doing so completely ignores any semblance of reality, political or otherwise.

1) All appointed Conservative Senators, according to all reports, have agreed to two conditions: a) they will support senate reform, and b) they will retire after 8 years.

2) Every single effort by PM Harper to reform the Senate, specifically with regard to election and terms, has been blocked outright by Liberal Senators...presumably on the orders of their leader. (...they do have a leader, do they not??? Oh, yeah...silly me.)

3) Clearly, and apparent to anyone with an IQ of at least 50, in order to reform the Senate there is no option left but to first stack the Senate with Conservatives.

Conservatives in favor of reform.

4) If PM Harper didn't appoint Senators to fill the gaps, the entire institution would have ceased to function at all.

5) There is no doubt whatsoever that, given the first opportunity...i.e., in the event of an election win, or perhaps another attempted coup d'etat...Iggy would fill those positions with more Liberal hacks and thereby insure there would be no hope of reform for more decades to come.

6) Provincial governments across the country, save for Alberta, have done basically not one damn thing to move Senate reform along.

It takes more guts than you can find rotting around a slaughter house for Liberals, who have fought tooth and nail to keep the Senate stacked with their hacks since forever, and Dippers, who could not possibly care less about any reform at all of a Senate they'd prefer gone outright, to accuse Harper of hypocrisy on this issue.

I sincerely doubt that it ever occurred to Harper, or anyone else in the government, that something so basic as finally bringing some degree of actual democracy to an important institution of a nation which prides itself for being a bastion of democratic principle, could run into such apathy, such contempt, and such intransigence.

Frankly, it's a bloody disgrace, and just downright pathetic.