Toronto Sun: Steve, it's time to wake up

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OTTAWA — A fascinating national opinion survey suggests that Stephen Harper and his Conservative government would do well to heed an old political saw about Canada-U.S. relations: Canadians like to see their prime ministers in the White House rose garden, but not in the presidential bedroom.

After seven months of an aggressive Washington courtship, the prime minister has apparently left a significant number of Canadian voters with the impression he is ’twixt the sheets with George W. Bush, and far too close for comfort.

In fact, the poll suggests that Harper’s perceived love-in with the increasingly unpopular U.S. president is the foremost single cause of what ails the minority Conservative government.

The survey of 1,003 voters was conducted in late August by the premier polling firm SES Research, exclusively for the Sun (full results are available online at canoe.ca/poll).

http://torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Weston_Greg/2006/09/02/1797801.html

[Spazito]

1. Good, I am not surprised but am pleased to see this

Thanks for posting it. I love the "twixt the sheets with George W. Bush, and far too close for comfort." It is the perfect description.

[tuvor]

2. I was a bit surprised to see it in the Toronto Sun

When I clicked on the Google News link to this story, I was thinking Toronto Star, not Sun.

Even better is that it's apparently been published in all of the Sun newspapers.