Quebec and Call, redux

If I was Premier Charest, I would just go to Hawaii for the rest of the campaign and not say another word.

Mr. Boisclair has invoked the problems with seeing so many "slanty eyed students" when he studied at Harvard.

Mr. Dumont's silver bullet was neither silver, nor a bullet. The memo he pulled out during the televised debate did not lead to the conclusions he made, and he misrepresented their contents on "national" television. Politicizing that tragedy is going to hurt him hard in Laval- where yesterday he actually had a chance to win two of the five seats there. The attitude will seep out into the rest of the province.

It leads me to the inescapable question - what the fuck is wrong with Quebec politicians?

1) Lucien Bouchard says they need more white babies;
2) Jacques Parizeau blames everything on big money and the ethnic vote;
3) You can't be a federal Liberal in Quebec without a criminal record of some kind;
4) Hundreds of dead people voted for Tom Long in the Quebec region of the Canadian Alliance leadership race; and
5) Prime Minister Chretien was never more popular then when he choked the shit out of a protester.

Quebec Politics is a caricature of itself. Sure this stuff happens in other places, but it just seems to resonate at an exponentially higher level of idiocy there. That is why the federal government panders so openly to Quebec.

Somehow I doubt that when travelling abroad, Quebec voters would say "that's one of mine" in reference to a Quebec Politician. "It's a Bomb- bard, eh?"