Emerson says did nothing wrong

At a closed to the public media availability today, David Emerson demonstrated today that he has time for people half a world away but none for his constituents. After commenting on his meeting with Indonesian Minister of Trade Mari E. Pangestu, David Emerson had this to say to reporters when questioned about his undemocratic party switch:

mumble mumble mumble blah blah mumble I made the right decision blah mumble blah

Yah. Right. And Nixon once famously said “I am not a crook”.

Rather ironically, both Indonesia and Emerson were recently linked by former Globe and Mail reporter Heather Mallick, in a piece penned for her new CBC Viewpoint column:

Modern ethics have changed so much that we need a new word for them. I decided this after hearing that the ethics commissioner concluded no rules were broken when Stephen Harper talked MP David Emerson into turning Conservative—and graciously accepting a cabinet post—two weeks after Emerson was elected as a Liberal.

There’s an appropriate new word in English but I doubt the CBC would print it. So we shall turn to Indonesia and call modern ethics “TST.” This is short for Tahu Sama Tahu, and it means “you know it, I know it.” Indonesians use it to refer to a deal between two people, one usually a government official, to cheat the state.

No doubt TST was muttered a lot after Nixon, too.