#GG Search Cmtee=Cheney VP Search: Whole Point of Friendly Giant Johnston Is He Doesn't Need 2 Be Told What to Do

As this blog points out, the GG non-partisan advisory committee is complete BS. Good it's been noted, I thought it was obvious from get-go that the GG Search Committee was as assiduous in its duties as Cheney was in his when desperately searching for a sound fellow to be VP. Oddly enough, in both cases, the perfect candidates were so obvious these search committees each almost overlooked them in their righteous quest for the Right man. Thankfully, after herculean efforts, they found the Right guy right beneath their eyes - fancy that. And Spector writes a perceptive reply to PMO bunkum ("Mr. Soudas: “This is not about politics”" - perish the thought...)

There is one oversight, though perhaps Spector thought it was implicit, but given general ignorance, best to be explicit: the whole point of appointing Johnston was to have a guy who would do what Harper needed WITHOUT being told, and that this might be credible since he could leverage his reputation across the four areas of elite activity, media, academia, politics and business, such that there would be general acquiescence, despite the obvious obscenity of appointing as GG someone who recently saved Govt bacon on most dangerous matter - and who has since refused to take questions on it! By what right? Since when do public servants doing important business of state, as he was, get to avoid questions about process and reasoning? For more than TWO YEARS now. And of course, as GG, it would now be quite improper for him to take on such questions, wouldn't it? Quite improper...Suckers!

Unfortunately, those suckers include me and all Canadians, well except from those who profited from Airbus directly and indirectly, they're pleased as punch.

But I forget myself, it's all so long ago, and it's "well-tilled ground" and David's such a fine fellow - why, he looks almost exactly like the Friendly Giant, so he's GOT to be an honourable man in all things, always, doesn't he? I figure the media's reticence to criticise the appointment is based on unconscious transfer of affection for a children's character they grew up with long ago.

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Spector:

the PMO is concerned about the perception that David Johnston is a partisan appointee who might tend in future to do Stephen Harper’s bidding in a constitutional tight spot. As he did in drafting the mandate of the Commission set up to look into the dealings between Karlheinz Schreiber and Brian Mulroney. (...) And it’s precisely that enthusiasm for burying a matter as serious as the Airbus scandal that made him, in Stephen Harper’s eyes, the perfect non-partisan to deal with the knotty constitutional issues that our next Governor-General may be called upon to adjudicate.