Stupid Bloc Tricks.. We've Seen Them Before.

Remember the old David Letterman show?

Remember stupid pet tricks.. you know, when some guy would come on and show his dog flipping a milk bone off his nose and into his mouth.  Or playing dead.

The essential core of the bit was that someone had a pet who could do one sorta cool trick, on demand, and that was it.  Nobody brought on amazing guide dogs or talking gorillas or anything.  It was, literally, a collection of one trick ponies, or, more often, one trick puppies.

Such is the Bloc Quebecois and Gilles Duceppe

Today we read about Gilles Duceppe doing his stupid pet trick - being indignant and petulant about being told that he isn't the only Province in Canada and can't always have things his way.

You've seen this trick before.

"We didn't get a handout when we went and harmonized sales tax and GST."

"We want a new hockey arena to house a team no one will want to play for."

Now - he's all up in arms because there is discussion of the Federal Government assisting the Province of Newfoundland to guarantee loans for undersea electrical transmission lines that would take away Quebec's virtual monopoly.

Now - you have to admire his cajones, I mean, Quebec standing up and screaming about Federal subsidies going to a Province..

But, really Gilles.

We would be more impressed if you just played dead.

For a while...

..a long while.