Rona's Bad Gas Day

It is with great sadness we announce the political suicide of Environment Minister Rona Ambrose today.

Her stinging eulogy in the foyer of the Centre Block on how the Conservatives plan to clean up the environment by regulating toasters, blenders, DVDs, farting and burping was met with disbelief from journalists, environmentalists and Opposition critics.

The Republican-Conservative plan to increase green-house gas emissions is so weak even President Harper had to sneak out of Ottawa because of the stench. He was a no-show at the daily Question Period and left Ambrose to flounder on her own with periodic help from the five o'clock shadow MP from Bedrock, Jason Kenney.

The media pounced all over Ambrose with CTV's Bob Fife intoning before a live audience of millions that: "Rona Ambrose has made a very serious political mistake. Overpromising and underdelivering. She was not impressive."

The newspaper reviews tommorrow won't be kind.

It's only going to get worse. Insiders described today's rollout of the non environmental plan as a sham and joke. Bureaucrats scrambled at a media briefing to distance themselves from a plan that was forced down their throats by a Republican-Conservative government that refuses to acknowledge that global warming is real.

Things continued to go downhill when someone - likely Ambrose herself - pulled the fire alarm in the Centre Block forcing an evacuation and delaying Rona's news conference inside. But heck, while everyone was outside crtics such as Liberals John Godfrey and Pablo Rodriguez spilled the beans on the non plan and beat Ambrose to the punch.

It was theatre at its best. Read the reviews tomorrow.