Tick tick tick (II)
Danny Williams lashes out, and somehow this is news. CBC reports on Himself's appearance on another radio station:
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams has waded into a war of words between doctors and his health minister.In totally unrelated news, that other radio station reported earlier this month:
"I'm going to blow another valve before this is over," Williams, who recently had heart valve surgery in the United States, told VOCM radio in St. John's on Wednesday. "It's too bad you even mentioned this."
Premier Continues With Recovery
March 1, 2010
Although he is continuing his recovery with the plan being to take one more week before returning to work, Premier Danny Williams shared in the province's celebrations in Vancover and took in the gold-medal winning hockey game between Canada and the United States.
Labels: cardiology
posted by WJM @ 1:19 AM
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"Williams dismissed the medical association's comments as a 'smokescreen.'" -- CBC
He's right about the smokescreen; he's just wrong about who is smoking whom.
I'm sure there is an explanation for how yet another official roid rage helps the patients whom the Premier cares about so very deeply. I'm also sure that there is an explanation for how physicians' salaries are relevant to the issue.
It's out there blowin' in the polls, I'm sure.
Punditry warning: be prepared for one or more professional pundits to pronounce that the public should move along and forget about this story -- I can already hear the "nothing to see here" mutterings -- because it's just (powerful) Williams being (popular) Williams.
I predict another elliptical Telytorial sports analogy is on its way, advising the great unwashed that with great power comes great authority to flip out. While the Editorial Board doesn't mind laying the boots to Jerome Kennedy now and again, I bet you a double-double that they will give the Premier's latest pissing-match a pass or, at best, they'll make a wee crack in a jeer/cheer.
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