Once the hypocrites are done with their little anti-prorogue tantrum Harper will be back up in the polls like before.

Here we go again. Don't mnake rational comments based on logic and common sense, instead just shoot your mouth off and insult everyone in the universe who has an opinion different from yours.

RUEZ, it is not hypocritical to demand a government which has some respect for the people.

And I still want a full investigation into the torture allegations.

It is unbefitting of ethical and moral government to try all kinds of delaying tactics in an attempt to sweep these things under the carpet, imho.

If the federal NDP and the federal Liberals would form a common party (The Liberal Democratic Party?) the Conservatives would be toast in a minute.

And stay that way!

The cartoon is very funny!

Harper said the torture of the poor innocents will continue when parliment resumes. How come it is okay for the liberals to parogue government many times and Harper does it once and the lefties come unglued.

The Liberals never prorogued parliasment twice during a single session.

The Liberals never prorogued parliament to avoid a non-confidence motion.

Those things make a difference.

It's hypocritical to complain when Harper prorogues but not bat an eye when Chretien does it. No one even knew what proroguing was until the media started making a big deal about it and the sheep took it and ran.

I don't support Chretien. As everyone on this site knows I am an NDP supporter. However, Chretien never once used proroguing to avoid having to deal with his critics in parliament. He was willing to face them, to his credit. Harper uses any means to avoid facing up to the consequences of his decisions. His first prorogue was blatently to avoid being defeated in a confidence motion when he scuttled away from parliament to sulk. This second one is to avoid questions about the treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan that he doesn't want to answer. Those two things are a gross insult to Canadian democracy and, by extension, to Canadian voters who hold exclusive rights in that democracy. Refusing to face parliament is the same as refusing to face the voters, but that is the quality of Prime Minister we have in Canada.

You don't know if people batted an eye or not when others prorogued in the past.

They might have been just as frustrated or ticked off then as many people are now.

Wrongdoings of the past should not be used in the present to commit more wrongdoings.

To support that kind of excuse is hypocritical.

It's also hypocritical to overlook reasons given for early or sudden prorogation when the reasons are plainly bogus.

I still want the Afghan prisoner affair thoroughly investigated and those who made cover-up statements fired.

I will repeat again, Harper said the prisoner investigation will resume. Also let us not worry about what the Taliban and Al-Qaeda do to prisoners.

"let us not worry about what the Taliban and Al-Qaeda do to prisoners."

That's the attitude people had before the second world war.