'It’s time we thought for ourselves on the revamping of the disgusting Upper Churchill contract,' writes Bob Wakeham

Wouldn’t you just love to be a fly on the wall when David Vardy and Danny Williams get together as members of the so-called Group of Nine, a collection of past-their-prime politicians and bureaucrats who’ve aligned themselves as an advocacy band to try and convince all of us nincompoops, those who can’t think for themselves, that the Upper Churchill Memorandum of Understanding is a pile of dung?

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“So, Danny,” Vardy might wonder (at least in my satirical imagination, a qualifier for all you litigious legal beagles), “am I still a ‘bottom feeder’?”

That less-than-gracious term was among many the former premier used to describe Vardy and others who opposed his legacy project, the boondoggle called Muskrat Falls.

“Or how about being full of ‘nonsense’?” Vardy could ask his newfound buddy.

Then there was ‘irresponsible’, a word Vardy might recall as one Williams used to describe any soul not enamored with his retirement gift to the Newfoundland public.

“Now I must confess I termed your legacy project as a ‘disaster’ from the beginning,” Vardy might continue, “…without a clear focus.”’

And Vardy could very well admit that he told the Newfoundland public it should be “gravely concerned” about this “whole saga.”

Then again, the mini history lesson on the Muskrat Falls project could very well have concluded with Vardy and Williams, now with the Upper Churchill in common, doing their best impression of participants in a beer commercial:

“Aw, come over here, you big lug, and give us a hug.”

“I love ya, man!”

Anyway, enough of my........

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