How do you spell... "Buffoon"...

Cat calling in the Senate (upper house)... now here's something to look forward too... we don't have enough of it in the "Commons" (lower house)... so let's bring it on to the Senate.... it's one thing for me to act like a buffoon by times but it's certainly another thing to act like that when you are being paid by the taxpayers of Canada to do your job as a Senator.. "The Senate tends to be less partisan and confrontational than the House, and is more likely to come to a consensus on issues. It also often has more opportunity to study proposed bills in detail either as a whole or in committees. This careful review process is why the Senate is still today called the chamber of "sober second thought", though the term has a slightly different meaning than it did when used by John A. Macdonald. The format of the Senate allows it to make many small improvements to legislation before its final reading. Although the Senate rarely vetoes bills from the House, their minor changes are usually accepted by it." ...from Wikipedia... Clearly Senator Duffy is obviously not that politically bright... picking a fight with a Newfoundlander and an Islander is not going to get you anywhere and with that kind of an attitude he may as well "stay" in Ottawa as he won't be welcomed here.... Mike, if you want to call Danny Williams a "bully" for sticking up for Newfoundlanders then I'm thinking "buffoon" should fit somewhere else in your vocabulary....
Senator unapologetic for comments about premiers
WAYNE THIBODEAU
The Guardian
A newly minted P.E.I. Senator remains unapologetic for suggesting that Premier Robert Ghiz may get the “shaft’’ by getting in bed with the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and that the sight of two politicians in bed is “ . . . a grotesque scene.’’ Mike Duffy first made the comments during the provincial Progressive Conservative party’s annual meeting Saturday in Winsloe. He repeated the comments, using slightly different language, in the Senate Tuesday.
“I was disappointed to see that our dynamic young premier in Prince Edward Island, Robert Ghiz, has climbed into bed with the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and honourable senators know what a grotesque scene that is,’’ Duffy said in the Senate. “Do honourable senators know what happens when two politicians climb into bed together? One of them comes out on top and I am afraid that when one is in bed with Danny Williams he will come out on top and I would hate to see where that will leave P.E.I. in the end.’’ During the Conservatives annual meeting, Duffy used stronger language suggesting that when “two men’’ get in bed, “one is going to get the shaft.’’ He went on to say, “And I can assure you it won’t be Danny Williams.’’Some in the crowd reacted with a mix of mild laughter and muted applause, while others did not laugh or applaud at all. Contacted Wednesday, Duffy stood by his comments and his humour. “I think people are pretty easily offended if they’re offended by that,’’ Duffy said in a telephone interview from Ottawa.“I was trying to be humorous and paint a graphic picture of the power relationship. Newfoundland has oil and billions of dollars and P.E.I. has our goodwill and our good relations. “To get into some kind of alliance with a guy who’s widely seen as a bully is just foolish.’’ Both Ghiz and Williams have called on the federal government to delay any changes in the equalization program for a year, arguing that it’s wrong to make changes to the federal transfer during an economic recession. The Island government contends a new cap on equalization could cost the province up to $20 million annually. Duffy’s comments set off a political firestorm in two provinces. Ghiz called Duffy’s comments disappointing and called the senator ill-informed. “Mike Duffy said he wanted to be a senator from Prince Edward Island. I would hope that he would act like one,’’ said Ghiz. “I just wish that perhaps Mr. Duffy, as a senator for Prince Edward Island, would stop wasting time with petty partisanship and look at the big picture and what we can do to improve Prince Edward Island in the long run.’’ Ghiz said he has a good working relationship with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the prime minister understands that he’s simply standing up for his province. “If Mr. Duffy took the time to review the changes that were made to equalization, he would understand that Prince Edward Island is going to be losing millions of dollars.’’ In Newfoundland, Williams said Duffy’s comments certainly were not the kind of language one would expect to hear in the Senate. “But obviously Senator Duffy was given his marching orders. We’ve seen the nasty, vindictive type of mentality of Stephen Harper and (Jim) Flaherty,’’ said Williams. “Robert Ghiz happens to be a very good premier and a very good leader who is obviously prepared to speak out on principle on behalf of his province and that’s exactly what he’s done. And I think now that he’s had the gumption and the political intestinal fortitude to speak out in support of his province, which has lost some money in equalization, they’re now trying to disparage him by a smear and trying to pretend that there is some alliance between myself and Robert Ghiz. “That wouldn’t be fair to Robert Ghiz or to myself to indicate that that is happening. But if, as leaders of our province, we feel we have to speak out then the last I knew Canada was a democracy and we’re entitled to speak out.’’ The issue of Duffy’s remarks came up in the Senate Wednesday with Liberal Senator Joan Cook asking Conservative Senator Marjory LeBreton, the leader of the government in the Senate, whether she condoned the comments made by the P.E.I. senator. Ghiz said Harper broke a deal with the provinces when it comes to federal equalization transfers. “Two years ago a new equalization deal was signed. Unilaterally, before Christmas, that deal was broken.’’ (With files by The St. John’s Telegram/Transcontinental Media)