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May 22, 2011

Ralph Goodale is hilarious

“The most costly Cabinet in Cdn history would be the best place for Treasury Bd Tony Clement to start chopping. #cdnpoli” — @RalphGoodale

Stephen Harper’s cabinet is equal in size to the largest cabinets of Brian Mulroney and Paul Martin.

Guess who served in Paul Martin’s cabinet?

None other than Ralph Goodale.

A 39 member cabinet is too big, but where one stands is often where one sits. And sit he did, around Martin’s comically large cabinet table.

When Goodale and Martin were in office, they oversaw the cost-overrun from the billion dollar boondoggle that was the long-gun registry.

Only now it seems that Ralph Goodale is interested in trimming the fat.

Perhaps we should ask Goodale about the unnecessary bureaucratic costs of the Canadian Wheat Board?

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batb

Ah! Ralphie Badbeer:

Pot, Kettle, Black.
Anonymous

In the grand scheme of Canadian politics there are worse things than a bloated Cabinet. Like a bloated Senate. At least all the Cabinet ministers are elected at the moment (with the exception of the Senate leader). You’re right, this is silliness.
Anonymous

I always laugh when I see Goodale on TV. His hyperbolic rhetoric is laughable. The man is from a previous era and now that the Libs are in third place and sitting in the back corner are we still going to be able to hear his heckling. He and Marlene Jennings were some of the worse. Fortunately we got rid of the latter but the former is still there. The people of Wascana never learn.
Paulsstuff

The same Ralph Goodale who used the Challenger jet for flights home from Ottawa?
wilson

We should ask Ralphie how much it cost Canadian taxpayers to take to court,
fine and then send to JAIL Western Canadian grain farmers, for the crime of selling their own grain. Something Eastern grain farmers do without penalty.
wilson

In 2006 Goodale won by 20, 666 votes,
in 2008 he won by 4,230
in 2011 he won by 1,550 …….
http://www.stephentaylor.ca Stephen Taylor

Oh yeah…
Liz J

It’ll be a change for the bellicose Ralphie to have to wiggle his bum and attempt to heckle from the rear seats instead of from across the aisle.

Judging from his dwindling win margins, like his party, he’s on his last legs, not even deemed suitable to act as interim leader. Yeah, Ralphie has lost his wiggle room.
Anonymous

I did not realize that his plurality was dropping so badly. You would think he would tone it down a bit. He personifies Liberal arrogance.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Harold-Stothart/528963923 Harold Stothart

Goodale is a Lib with lots of Lib sin.
Liz J

One thing we can be sure of when the Wheat Board subject comes up, we’ll be able to hear the Liberal “expert” on the subject, yeller Wayne Easter, from the far corner of the House.

Ralphie will have to be satisfied with squirming on the back bench. He may try gesturing at Flaherty instead of heckling from across the aisle.

Should be fun, the Liberals still don’t know the meaning of humble.
Rmeaden

Tell me again Lizj, where did Goodale manage to get as he puts it ’ eight year balance budget’ out of what, from where?
wilson

Being the 3rd party, just how much face time will Ralphie get?
Bet the Quebec wing of the LPC will be the chosen few, as that’s where they are looking to regain seats from the Dippers
Liz J

Well the NDP got a fair amount of time as 3rd party.
Liz J

Perhaps some Liberal magic, sleight of hand, something in that milieu? Maybe he had something in his back pockets, that could explain his infernal squirming.
Anonymous

Ralph Goodale is a funny old chap.
batb

Yeah! Hardy, har, har, har …
Gabby In QC

This is telling …
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/23/mitchel-raphael-on-the-liberals-wake-and-some-parting-remarks/
“The one person who spoke at the party was surviving MP Ralph Goodale, but no one seemed to be listening; former Liberal leaderMichael Ignatieff left before Goodale spoke.“
Liz J

Could it be because Ralphie is seen as one of the old boys and part of their problem?
Gabby in QC

No surprise no one was listening to Mr. Goodale ‘s prolix perorations. The Liberals are still wondering what hit them.

But Bob Rae apparently has the answers, complete with allusions to a 50′s craze: the hula hoop. Evan Solomon was all atwitter (no, not THAT Twitter) at Bob Rae’s comment about no one being able to explain the success of the NDP, just like no one predicted the hula hoop’s success back then.So, you’re right, Liz J, one of the Liberals’ problems may well be the old guard “think.” Surely Mr. Rae could have alluded to today’s iPods, iPads, Wiis, etc. They’re still stuck in their glory days.