Repetition is the mother of talking points (V)

The 1st Sock Puppet Division hits the CBC:

David in NL wrote:
Posted 2009/04/28at 6:47 AM ET

The way I see it is that an investigation will be a complete waste of money! Ed Burne used money illegally and is already in prison for that. This is a crime which has ALREADY been dealth with through trial, a guilty plea and a prison sentence. So if you are not trying to investigate the illegal act of the money involved, what are trying to investigate and solve? The potential of an illegally won election??? Let us say that the money did actually affect the election results... what are we to do? Since this time there has ben another election and a new member is sitting in that seat!

Proud in NL wrote:
Posted 2009/04/28at 7:11 AM ET

The opposition has another bone to chew. Byrne is in prison. A useless investigation and a possible by election would change nothing except cost us millions of dollars. The opposition is like a dog under the dining room table, looking for crumbs to chew on.

NoSuchUser wrote:
Posted 2009/04/28at 7:38 AM ET

I'm a taxpayer and I have no interest in having my tax dollars used to conduct a futile investigation into this matter. What do those calling for an investigation really hope to accomplish or discover? Obviously money was used inappropriately, Ed Byrne revealed that, what else is there to learn? This is in the past, leave it there. There is nothing more to be gained from this and only good tax dollars to waste.

Note the VOCM-esque plea to consider the taxpayer's sweat-soaked loonie, and, in a remarkable parallel to what Minister Blunderdale said earlier today, an appeal to the faulty logic of how the election result wouldn't have changed.

David in NL even notes that the MHA elected at the by-election in question has since been returned — the same argument that the former President of the PC Party made scant days ago.

The bumper harvest of red herring continues. Is FishAq worried about a glut yet?