Tonto Taunt Haunts Harper

Just when President Harper thought he had muzzled all his backbench sheep, British Columbia Republican Conservative MP Colin Mayes broke free from the pen and stepped in a huge pile of crapola.

Mayes, as you will remember, is the rookie boob who once mused that journalists should be jailed for writing negative stories about his party of cave dwellers.

Now the tarnished chairman of the House of Commons aboriginal affairs committee is in deep doo doo for praising a racist e-mail joke about First Nations and civil servants that uses stereotype language such as Tonto and Chief.

Opposition critics says Mayes should follow the lead of the previous chair of the committee, bible thumper Maurice Vellacott, who was forced to resign over his inappropriate comments about Supreme Court judges’ “God-like powers.”

Where the lesser president finds these dimwits is beyond me. Not much to choose from along the back benches I guess.

And the question journalists should be asking is: Who else did Mayes pass along the e-mail joke to.

Stay tuned.