Or so Prime Minister Stephen Harper says, when talking about his Resources Minister and her continuing gaffs, regarding the Isotope Crisis his Government has created. Naturally he should know about Cheap Politics, as wasn’t it him who had the image of Stephane Dion with a bird pooping on his shoulder, plastered across the website of the Conservatives? Wasn’t it him who made fun of Stephane Dion’s poor English, while at the same time murdering the French Language?

A defiant Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended his embattled natural resources minister on Tuesday, dismissing the opposition’s call for him to fire Lisa Raitt over controversial comments caught on tape as “cheap politics.” ( CBC News )

I wonder how those waiting for treatment are feeling about the Minister’s comments? You know, the one about it not being a moral issue, therefore easy to solve with just money.

And that does lead to an interesting point.

If the solution was so easy, as simply tossing money at it, then why after 20 months hasn’t it been solved?

Then too, there is the notion that perhaps the reason our economy is in bad shape, isn’t due to anything other than mismanagement. I mean, why does it matter if the issue is a moral one, or not? Isotopes are used for medical treatment, so what, if it was used for determining if a woman was pregnant or not, that MIGHT lead to an abortion, then it would not be worthy of being solved?

If the Conservative solution to problems are based on two criteria, one is to determine if the problem is a moral issue, and if not, to then throw money at it. Kind of makes you wonder if the whole bailout of GM & Chrysler is based on that, rather than at perhaps securing jobs for people.

Yes, a Minister should WANT to solve a crisis, but how you solve it is as important as solving it. If you believe that only added money is the solution, then this country is going to be BANKRUPT IN SHORT ORDER. And yet, that does seem to be the goal of the Harper Regime.

Cheap Politics? Not when it is costing us billions of dollars, to allow various Cabinet Ministers to reap glory. It is rather EXPENSIVE POLITICS, DON’T YOU THINK?

I wonder too, how Stephen Harper has the nerve to even face people, and then call the demand for resignation of a Cabinet Minister, cheap politics, given all of his attack ads, that are now airing on the poor struggling commercial television stations? Now that is nerve, don’t you think?

Truth is, this Cabinet Minister allowed sensitive documents to be left not for a minute or two, but for days, at a television station, and now a five plus hour long tape was left at another, again for some time, and he thinks it is cheap politics to want her removed?

I mean what else is missing from her department?

Now if Mr. Harper wants to talk Cheap Politics, perhaps he should look inwards. After all there is nothing cheaper than putting the blame onto a subordinate, rather than accepting one’s own responsibility. And that is exactly what he and Ms. Raitt have done with the errant documents.