Senate appointments could have been worse

I am not impressed. Once again, I have been passed over for the Senate. Every time a vacancy comes up, I wait for the phone to ring, and the call never comes. I know just how Betty Hinton feels.

A certain source, who shall remain nameless (anonymous sources not remaining sources for long if you out them), floated the rumour a couple of weeks ago that Betty was in line for a Senate job.

The reliability, or lack of same, of said source was, of course, exposed in yesterday’s Senate announcements when Nancy Greene Raine got the nod instead of Betty. When I was asking around about the Betty rumour prior to yesterday, one theory was that it was a devious strategy by Prime Minister Harper to encourage public demands that the Senate be abolished.

Along the same lines as coming up with a flatulent statement on the economy and threatening to take funding away from the opposition parties, just so he could get Canadians excited at Christmas.

Anyway, I received a nice email from Nancy this morning and she’s obviously excited about going to Ottawa. Len Marchand proved senators can actually do good work. I think Nancy will do the same.