Liberal spin doctors are trying too hard

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s spin doctors need to think back to when they were kids.

And to recall if it ever worked to complain to Mom and Dad, when they were caught doing something stupid, that “all the other guys were doing it, too.”

Remember what Mom and Dad used to say, Liberal spin doctors?

They would say: “And if all the other guys jumped off a cliff, would you do that, too?”

That’s why their latest attempt to bury the limo and vanity photographers’ expense controversy involving Liberal cabinet ministers, by claiming the Conservatives did it, too, and they were even worse, is so dumb.

First, feeding this information to The Hill Times just keeps the story alive.

Second, of course the Tories spent more. They were in power for almost a decade, compared to nine months for the Liberals.

Third, the New Democrats have compiled a helpful record of quotes from Liberals reacting to Tory ministerial spending when they were in power. On Bev Oda’s $16 orange juice: “It reveals a government that’s off its game, quite frankly, and taking liberties with the public’s patience and the public’s purse.” (Then Liberal deputy leader Ralph Goodale, April 23, 2012, Postmedia News)

On Conservative cabinet ministers using photographers:

“The money spent by Conservatives on vanity photographers could have kept the Veterans Affairs office in Cape Breton open.” (Liberal MP Mark Eyking, iPolitics, Feb. 19, 2015)

On what type of vehicles Conservative cabinet ministers were using:

“They’re afraid to roll into Parliament in their black little limos today.” (Liberal MP Scott Andrews, Huffington Post, May 3, 2012)

Do the Liberals — the party that gave us former cabinet minister David Dingwall unforgettably saying he was “entitled to my entitlements” regarding his job at the Royal Canadian Mint — really want to drag this out?

Is their argument the Lexus ES 300 luxury sedan Health Minister Jane Philpott was being chauffered around in isn’t a limo, really the hill they want to die on?

Or that Environment Minister Catherine McKenna saved taxpayers’ money by spending $6,600 for a photographer in Paris, instead of bringing one from Canada? Seriously, federal Liberals. Seriously. We can almost hear Mom and Dad sending you to your room without supper, right now.