Senate reform via stacking the senate

You might remember Stephen Harper as the guy who ran on a platform of reforming the senate, then executed on that plan by appointing a senator on his first day in office. In fact, my MP, the "drama queen"*  sent me a flyer this very spring indicating how important senate reform is to the CPC party.

So obviously, the way to reform the senate is to appoint a whole bunch of new senators:

Newly re-elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper served notice Wednesday that he will stack the Senate with Tories if necessary to push through democratic reforms of the chamber.

Mr. Harper told reporters in Calgary that the Conservatives are serious about promised changes to the Senate – which include elections and eight-year fixed terms – and will fill it with new Tory appointments to push through reforms if the Liberal majority there opposes them.

“We don't believe an unelected body should in anyway be blocking an elected body,” he told a news conference in Calgary.

So Steve means to reform the senate by taking a page from Mulroney's book and stacking the senate. Even though the senators he appoints won't be subject to the new laws he enacts -- the laws won't be retroactive.

The only real way to change the senate, by the way, is through a change to the constitution. But Steve doesn't have the backbone to try a constitutional change -- it's too hard, and daring to do things when he doesn't know if they'll succeed just isn't in the Steve playbook.

So he's going to enact a bunch of laws that will be no more meaningful or binding than the fixed election dates law that he enacted in his first mandate. Accountability? No, not for him. He'll take smoke and mirrors over accountability, every time.

Steve seems to love to pass laws for other people that don't apply to him. That's because he's a weak, cowardly man who has no idea how to work with other people to make things go his way.

A weak, cowardly man.

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* The wonderful Kady O'Malley's term, not mine. Though I wish it were.

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Update: Kady is on the case, and look out, Steve, she's got math.