Harper's worst enemy

Remove Emerson! Elect Emerson! I've got it. First remove him, then elect him. Or not. CHICKENS, ROOST: Ahab's Whale has stocked up on some choice (and remarkably fresh) campaign rhetoric Emerson could use in the coming byelection:

"Just mark my words," Industry Minister David Emerson told reporters travelling with Martin yesterday in Vancouver. "If they get elected, they are going to begin a massive review of programs and a massive set of cuts to government programs. "And people are going to say, `We didn't ask for this. Mr. Harper didn't say this is what he was going to do.'"

"The Conservatives want to keep any of their members who might be inclined to say something that would uncover their true intentions and keep them quiet, out of the limelight," Industry Minister David Emerson said in Vancouver yesterday... "I've got to wonder what it is they're hiding," Emerson said in an interview after a speech by Prime Minister Paul Martin. "They've got a message that they've been quite successfully getting out to try to pretend they're moderate on a range of issues where we all know that underneath, when you scratch a bit, they're not moderate at all."

"I'm going to be Stephen Harper's worst enemy," he warned. "We're going to stir the pot and you better believe we are going to make a heck of a lot of noise."

And of course, who can forget:

Industry Minister David Emerson also painted a bleak picture of Harper rule, whereby "the strong survive and the weak die." ...

A CONTRARY VIEW:

Knock knock. Who's there? Emerson. Emerson who? Emerson nice cabinet picks.

Reminds me of that Jeff ("You might be a redneck") Foxworthy joke, about the correct (redneck) use of the word "mayonnaise": Mayonnaise a lot of people here tonight.