Who are the most Irritating Politicians?

[Keepitsimple]

Liberals: Ruby Dhalla and Gerrard Kennedy are a couple of blabbermouths - Kennedy especially - he just talks and talks and will interrupt and talk over whoever he's "debating". Dhalla speaks a mile a minute - non-stop - with no substance.

Conservatives: I really didn't like David Tilson in the Schreiber/Mulroney hearings - seems like a nasty man. John Baird always seems to have too many cups of coffee in him and just repeats his mantra-of-the-day.

NDP: Jack Layton. Puffed up Peacock. Windbag.

Bloc: Who cares.

Edited December 16, 2007 by Keepitsimple

[madmax]

Liberals: Ruby Dhalla and Gerrard Kennedy are a couple of blabbermouths - Kennedy especially - he just talks and talks and will interrupt and talk over whoever he's "debating". Dhalla speaks a mile a minute - non-stop - with no substance.

Conservatives: I really didn't like David Tilson in the Schreiber/Mulroney hearings - seems like a nasty man. John Baird always seems to have too many cups of coffee in him and just repeats his mantra-of-the-day.

NDP: Jack Layton. Puffed up Peacock. Windbag.

Bloc: Who cares.

I find Harper irritating. Can't trust a position he takes or a word he says. But that is peoples normal view of a politician.

What I find irratating is that he doesn't understand his role as Prime Minister. He shouldn't be the one taking cheap shots or making outlandish statements. He knows he is Prime Minister but still behaves like an opposition member.

I understand you found Tilson to be nasty, but was his questioning poor? There are people that appear nasty, but are really being thorough. He was not being mean. I want all politicians to take their job seriously and get beyond the political posturing. A nice politician, and many politicians are nice, may perform poorly in committees and in the house.

John Baird knows how to repeat the party line, under constant questioning. I haven't liked him in the past, but I must say, part of being a politician is staying on message and getting out to the public what the party position is. Comparing him to his predecessor, I would say, he has managed to say the government position without having to fall on his sword.

All media is good media for a politician and sometimes they have to be irratating to be heard.

Now that you have started this thread, you might want to create a poll.

[gc1765]

Interesting question:

Liberals: Garth Turner, John McCallum

NDP: Jack Layton

Conservatives: Monte Solberg, Jason Kenney, David Emerson, Jim Flaherty

That's all I can think of for now...

edit: oops, I can't believe I almost forgot Hedy Fry....maurice vellacott, joe volpe...

Edited December 17, 2007 by gc1765

[capricorn]

Liberal: Mark Holland and Marlene Jennings, of keystone cops fame.

NDP: Jack Layton. I still think he and the Video Professor are the same person.

Bloc: Gilles Duceppe. I'm scared of looking into his big eyes when he gets angry for fear they will suck me in whole.

Conservative: Whichever doesn't get elected in the next election.

[Michael Bluth]

Liberal: Mark Holland and Ruby Dhalla

NDP: Libby Davies and Irene Mathyssen

CPC: Pierre Polievre and Brian Jean

Bloc ... my French isn't good enough to understand if somebody is being irritating.

Holland keeps trying to build that pitbull reputation which is really freaking annoying.

Dhalla is far too shrill. Totally histrionic in the fight she picked with Deepak Obhrai in committee months ago.

Davies just looks down on people who don't agree with her social views, the most egregious of the NDP caucus on that front.

Mathyssen for the whole fiasco with James Moore. Completely over-reacted and very unprofessional in how she dealt with it.

Polievre just a smug young punk. So childish when he got busted flipping the bird in the House.

Jean, I'm not sure if annoying is the right word, but definitely mockable. When he sent Harper a "Why Brian Jean should be in cabinet" DVD he just lost all credibility in my eyes so I can't take him seriously at all anymore.

Edited December 17, 2007 by Michael Bluth

[M.Dancer]

Jack Layton.

Brian Mulroney

David Miller

[Fortunata]

Joe Volpe

Whajisface Khan

Sven (even tho he's out)

Emerson

Flaherty

Lunn

Steve himself

Layton should have been second or third

Traitor MacKay

John Baird

Hedy Fry

John McCallum

Bev Oda

[Moonlight Graham]

Tony Clement. He's the biggest nerd i've seen in my life. And he's ugly.

[August1991]

Nasally pontificating Stephen Lewis.

I met Mel Lastman once in a bar in Moscow. He's short, fat, he's got really funny hair and he had too much Man-Tan on. I didn't find him irritating, just weird.

I met Jacques Hébert once in Montreal's Ritz-Carlton. He was red-faced, unkempt and had a scotch in his hand. He was a snob and irritating.

[DrGreenthumb]

Harper is without a doubt the most irritating man in history. I think Harper is like the turbo-lax of politicians because he irritates the shit out of everybody.

Tony Clement is also hugely irritating. I don't know if it is clement himself that irritates me or the fact that he is allowed to be health minister when it is such an obvious conflict of interest for someone heavily invested in pharmaceutical stock to be in a position to approve his own companies products.

Is anne mclellan still a politician? I can think of a lot worse things to call her than irritating.

[Michael Bluth]

Harper is without a doubt the most irritating man in history.

Is anne mclellan still a politician? I can think of a lot worse things to call her than irritating.

Greenie, you are a little over the top on the Harper thing. The most irritating man in history? Come one. Gilbert Gottfried? Ernest P. Worrell?

But you have redeemed yourself with the Anne Maclellan line.

I voted for her in 1993 when she won by 12 votes. Boy, what a mistake.

[DrGreenthumb]

Anne Mclellan pretty much single handedly destroyed the medical cannabis program started by allen rock, because she was a mean spirited, prohibitionist witch, who let her personal reefer madness beliefs interfere with her job as health minister. It makes me sick to think of how many people have suffered because of her actions. Its not going to improve under the conservatives either when the health minister owns stocks in a pharma company that would lose profits if the use of plant based medicines became accepted.

I have to agree that ernest was a very irritating piece of work, but he hardly compares to Harper. I could turn the channel and no longer be bothered by ernest. Harper's irritating policies do not go away when I turn off the TV.