Senate appointments: Count the ways

If the reports are true, Stephen Harper has decided to totally fly in the face of his promises to reform the Senate and appoint another wave of hacks and flacks to the Senate. Why? Ten possible reasons, circulating around the punditry and beyond today. I'll happily post any more suggestions.

1. Like the old joke about the dog and rude habits: Because he can.

2. Because Liberals did.

3. Because the Senate needs a former emergency-room nurse.

4. He's scared he might lose the next election.

5. Because the Senate needs yet another guy who's "passionately" interested in   golf, hockey and church. 

6. Because they might do a good job. (Ed. note:  too preposterous; find another reason.)

7. He has forgotten all the things he said about Senate reform.

8. Because it will annoy Preston Manning and all the Reformers who got  on his nerves in the 1990s. 

9. Because that Mike Duffy thing is working out really well.

10. Because  Stephen Harper is  afraid of the Finleys.

Comments

[BeachBum]

Because he wants Senators who can't read his legislation - or a complete sentence, for that matter!

Because hockey players are among the intellectual elite.

Because no one else will coach his kids' hockey teams.

Because his wife told him to (John Baird told her to tell Steve to do it).

Because he likes to surround himself with really smart people - and these were the smartest in the whole Reform Party.

Because he's a dork.

[Gabby in QC]

I see you've been as busy as a bee today. Maybe that explains the poor taste of this post.