Cabinet government

In the 2003 election campaign, platform Danny Williams pledged to make government more accountable, including by expanding Access to Information laws to allow the release of cabinet documents.

That, of course, didn't happen. Indeed, he has made government more open and accountable by making it less open and accountable.

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Government by Opposites.

But despite the clampdown, these past 48 hours have offered an unprecedented, and bizarre, look into the cabinet room.

This is what His Premierosity, and his hapless, hopeless, government, spend their time on.

This.

The Telegram also spoke to O’Brien Wednesday.

The minister said the email was discussed at the cabinet table in March 2009, and he’s been “stewing” about it ever since.

This.

The Email.

This is what they burn up cabinet time talking about.

That is, when cabinet isn't interrupted by an urgent message from outside the room that someone said Something Bad about His Premierosity on the talk radio machine, and so He rushes out of the cabinet meeting to the nearest phone to respond before the host signs off.

This what they spend time and money on.

This.

Unbelievable?

No — eminently believable.

A person's mental health is there own business.

But there is something — for lack of a better word — crazy, going on inside the machinery of his government, for something like this to have ever been brought to the cabinet table of a province of Canada whose Premier isn't named Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis.