After Kady blogged about a big black-tie gala here in Ottawa that featured politicians, journalists and a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan music, one of her commenters, J@ack Mitchell, came up with this witty gem, with apologies to G&S: I am the very model of a modern Tory Minister, My public views are circumscribed, my private views are sinister, In wetsuits I look chiseled, for I’m hardly roly-poly, oh! And that’s why they have given me this wonderful portfolio On weekends you’ll appreciate my hardy grassroots-mustering But weekdays I’m in Parliament and smugly filibustering I can’t decide if Harper likes me only for my shyness or Because I like to talk to my invisible pet dinosaur!
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