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The Republicans have their strategy, and theyre sticking to it, even though it involves destroying lives and even killing people.

Its working so well based on a simple statistical reality.

The majority of Americans depending on which survey you look at, between 60 and 75 percent cannot name which political party controls the House of Representatives, which party controls the Senate, or either.

Because most Americans dont know who controls Congress, when Congress misbehaves, as they have been doing for six years, most Americans arent sure who to blame.

Enter the Republican Chaos Strategy, based entirely on this statistical and political reality.

And common sense suggests that well over 90 percent of Americans know that Barack Obama is the president and that he is a Democrat.

The Republicans know this, too, and its the other half of their strategy.

Therefore, what the Republicans know, is that if they can cause damage to the American economy and to American working people, the average voter, not realizing it was exclusively the Republicans who did it, are going to assume that the president and the Democratic Party he is a member of must bear some or maybe even all of the responsibility.

Its a brilliant strategy: Damage the country and you damage the Democratic Party.

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The All Progressives Congress has urged the federal government to immediately stop the discordant tunes emanating from the highest echelons of government and speak with one voice on ongoing efforts to find and rescue the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram.

This was contained in a statement by the partys Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja, on Thursday.

According to the party conflicting statements credited to top government officials over the conditions given by Boko Haram for releasing the girls, were totally unwarranted and could send the wrong signal to the insurgents and hinder the efforts to ensure the safe return of the girls.

The party said the government must designate a spokesman, be it the Minister of Information or whoever the government deems fit, to be responsible for daily relaying to the public any relevant information concerning the search for the missing girls, instead of allowing a cacophony of voices on the issue.

The statement read in part: Information management is key if the government itself is not to jeopardize ongoing international efforts to find and rescue the girls, and the government must move fast to keep the nation informed through an established channel, in line with global best practices under such circumstances.

While Interior Minister Abba Moro and Senate President David Mark have said the government would not negotiate the release of the girls, Information Minister Labaran Maku, Director-General of National Orientation Agency, Mike Omeri and Special Duties Minister Taminu Turaki have hinted that the Federal Government will do whatever it takes to free the girls, meaning that all options are on the table.

To compound matters, President Goodluck Jonathan was widely quoted in the local newspapers Thursday as saying the government would not release the incarcerated Boko Haram members in exchange for the girls.

The APC said this kind of utter confusion is a window deep into the inner workings of the federal government as far as this critical issue of finding and freeing the girls is concerned, and it is unfortunate.

This is the kind of befuddlement that has characterized the FGs response to the Boko Haram crisis and led to a sorry pass where a nation widely acclaimed for its global peacekeeping role is now at the receiving end of global efforts to save it from itself, APC said.

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The Liberal government gave no indication on Thursday that the behemoth 500-page report issued by the Mnard Commission, which was mandated to investigate the problems surrounding Quebecs Maple Spring, has any future other than on a shelf gathering dust.

Liberal officials made it clear they considered it a politically motivated investigation and felt no obligation to act on the dozens of recommendations in it.

This was a political order of the former government, said Yasmine Abdelfadel, a press aide to Higher Education Minister Yves Bolduc. Its unfortunate it focuses on the police intervention but not on the actions of protesters. Weve denounced it since the beginning and dont feel its necessary to respond.

Public Security Minister Lise Thriault also called the report politically motivated with a goal of blaming the Liberals for the student uprising.

The reaction isnt a surprise considering the Liberals immediately dismissed it when the special commission was announced last May, saying it was intended to probe the police or indict the Jean Charest Liberals.

However, PQ public security opposition critic Pascal Brub said the substantial report merited consideration.

Released just as the Canadiens were facing off with the Boston Bruins in the hotly-anticipated final game of their series, the report issued two years after Montreals streets became a battleground for riot police and protesters promises to be a non-starter.

Authored by former PQ cabinet minister Serge Mnard, the report blames both student groups and the Charest Liberal government for not initiating peace talks sooner and said much of the conflict could have been mitigated if the two sides had negotiated in good faith.

The commission recommended that police stop using plastic-coated bullets, and limit the use of batons and pepper spray for crowd control, and that a law recognizing students right to strike be adopted, but that strike votes should only be taken by secret ballot.

Yves Francoeur, president of the Montreal police Brotherhood, immediately called the report unrealistic and totally lacking impartiality, saying officers did their work professionally under very difficult circumstances while managing 600 protests in 180 days.

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QUEBEC -- The testimony of a sitting Liberal member of the legislature at the Charbonneau Commission has caused some ripples with her political family in Quebec City.

As the Liberals gathered for a pre-session caucus on Thursday, questions swirled around the future of Julie Boulet, a former transport minister who is currently a backbencher in Philippe Couillard's government.

Boulet testified again at the corruption inquiry in Montreal on Thursday and continued to be dogged by the question of a $100,000 annual funding objective for cabinet ministers back in the 2000s.

Inquiry counsel Sonia LeBel confronted Boulet with the words of two of her ex-cabinet colleagues, Sam Hamad and Christine St-Pierre, who said the $100,000 objective was widely known.

LeBel also noted that Couillard said in 2012, before being elected, that he thought the quota wasn't a good idea.

Boulet reiterated she had no idea about any fundraising objectives until learning of them from a colleague in 2009.

But her own current political boss contradicted her as the Liberals met ahead of the resumption of the legislature next Tuesday.

Couillard said all elected officials knew about the targets under the Charest government.

"As with every political party, people knew the funding objectives," he said.

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