Double standards and cover-ups

Following up on yesterday's post, I'll offer one final note about Jason Kenney's lies about calling political staffers before Parliamentary committees. And this is a factor that should be absolutely devastating toward the Cons' base to the extent any reality manages to reach them.

Even today, the Cons' reflexive response to any concern about their ethics in government is to shriek "Adscam!", which their supporters take as reason enough to forgive and forget all Con sins in favour of a round of Lib-bashing.

But Kenney's earlier speech in Parliament about the need to call staffers as witnesses of course involved...Adscam. Which means that the Cons' new policy would serve to prevent Parliament from carrying out some of the same steps which were pursued to expose the Libs' wrongdoing.

As a result, when the Cons say "Adscam" now, it should only serve as a reminder that if their new-found principles in government had applied while they were in opposition, Adscam itself might have been swept under the rug. And that would seem to establish conclusively that the Cons are no less a party of double standards and cover-ups than their predecessors in office - not to mention raising questions about what kind of misuse of public resources they're trying to hide.