MacKay Recovering After Foot Pulled From Mouth

The on-staff dentist in the office of Fawning Affairs Minister Peter MacKay was called in late last night to perform what has become a routine procedure on the dog renter.

McMouth was resting comfortably today after a two-hour procedure to extract the foot from the mouth that keeps on giving. The surgery was a little trickier this time because MacKay, son of Elmer Fudd MacKay, was wearing a rubber boot.

MacKay's latest (but not last) slip of the tongue follows President Harper's gaffe-filled rickshaw joyride through Asia last week and Pollution Minister Rona Ambrose's international humiliation at a United Nations climate conference in Kenya.

MacKay was spanked today for irresponsibly raising the hopes of a Canadian family whose son is being held in jail in China on suspicion of terrorism. MacKay said Monday that Canada had won a commitment from China not to execute Huseyin Celil.

"We've already received a guarantee that (China) would not pursue the death penalty,'' McMouth said outside the House of Commons.

Mackay went on to blather that the guarantee to spare the life of the Canadian was evidence Canada was making headway with the Chinese government. Yet another fib.

But before MacKay could fully put the other foot in his mouth, his spokesman jumped to his side and contradicted him, saying, ah, not so fast boss, Canada had won no such commitment.

``I'm tired of picking up after you,`` the spokesman was heard uttering to MacKay as McMouth lumbered down a hallway with his mime a few steps behind.

Chinese government officials hiding behind the Great Wall at their embassy in Ottawa spoke openly over a dim sum breakfast today about how gutsy it was of President Harper to wear a silk dress and then pose for pictures while in Vietnam for the APEC summit.