Going Guergis on you

Ah what is there to add to the airport rage incident involving our friend Helena Guergis, Minister of State for the Status of Women? That, had it been you or me throwing our footwear around we probably would have been tased?

And so, I'll leave it to my sister and brother bloggers.

Here's a brief round-up:

Best with the dirty details: Kady

Best headline kudos go to Dammit Janet!

Best musical score: Green Assassin Brigade.

Best snark: Big City Lib

Best justification, written without a hint of irony: This guy at the -- where else? -- National Post.

One final note: Guergis appears to have attributed her, um, stress to how she'd been working her booty off for the little people at the airport. She'd been in PEI handing out two big cheques, ya see.

Hmmm ... well maybe she had been working hard. For some 9 days during this very long Parliamentary break.

But as for much of her gone rogued fellow caucus members, just go read Susan Delacourt.

UPPITY WOMAN DATE: The opposition is calling for Guergis' resignation. CBC News is polling viewers on the matter.

Me, I say no. That's because we could do worse, much worse, with potential replacements Cheryl Gallant, Candice ''Kill the Gun Registry'' Hoeppnner or Shelly Glover.

Comments

[M]

Gawd...to think we could actually have worse than this Stepford Wife as status of women minister...wake me up when this nightmare of a government is over...

[skdadl]

I agree. Keep Guergis. At least she is a vacuum.

[Michelle]

Oh, I don't know - given PMSH, worse would more likely be Maurice Vellacott, Brad Trost or Rod Bruinooge ...

[John from Toronto]

"That's because we could do worse, much worse, with potential replacements."

Who is this "we" you are talking about? Probably the royal we knowing the high opinion you have of yourself.

[Diana Marie]

The sky must be falling. I agree with the NP writer AND sympathise with a Harper govt. MP.
I make a point on principal of never going through airport humiliation without protest. I assume I am free from harrassment by authorities unless I have done, or am honestly suspected of doing, something illegal. Ergo, no one has any right to impede my travel, physically search me, ask invasive questions etc. That's the way it used to be and so should remain. If the authorities have legal grounds to suspect me (or anyone else) then state them. But there are none; never will be, and bothering me will not have achieved anything to advance 'security'.
Don't tell me the world changed after 9/11 and we must all acquiesce; utter rubbish. Human nature has not changed, but governments are finding it really useful turning their taxpayers into a bunch of scared sheep.
Ms. Guergis acted like a normal human being, annoyed and frustrated by pointless actions and protocols.