Our Senate scandal...

Our Prime Minister, Stephen 'Hairspray' Harper, is having a hell of a time distancing himself from these three bad apples in the barrel because he himself appointed the sticky-fingered fat-assed pirates back in 2008, which isn't all that long ago as taxpayers view it.

South of the border, down USA way, Senators spend about half their time soliciting campaign donations and trying to get re-elected, but here in Canada, ours are appointed at the pleasure of the Prime Minister, who, at times like this, fervently wishes he'd had more sense or at least procrastinated longer in the process, in case they got hit by a bus while crossing Wellington Street on their way onto Parliament Hill from The National Press Club or some other nearby watering hole in the neighborhood.

Our Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, bless his no-nonsense heart, today replied in answer to questions from the press that he didn't want to become distracted from his economic problems by events in the Senate, but that he has always been in favor of abolishing the Senate because a non-elected government body in this day and age is an anachronism. I couldn't agree more! This whole fiasco in which patronage appointees have been caught defrauding the very government in which they're freeloading in the first place simply highlights and underlines the redundancy we call a Senate. It's time it was shut down for our own good.