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Proud To Be Canadian:

In a meeting of the combined foreign affairs committee and defence committee in Ottawa, the failed former leader of the you’ve got to be kidding party, Alexa McDonough, just called our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, "dumb as an oyster."

She then quickly claimed it was an old "Atlantic Canada expression."

McDumba was the one who feigned indignant outrage for the cameras when the Conservative deputy Prime Minister Peter MacKay used an old Atlantic Canada expression from her home province of Nova Scotia in 2006, and suggested she "stick to her knitting." She pretended that it was perhaps a “sexist” reference and said it was a "sexist slur." So outraged were the liberal-left in Canada from coast to coast to coast, and so over-reported in the liberal media, that the good Peter MacKay phoned her and apologized.

That McDonough is one nasty piece of work. I blogged about the MacKay incident at the time and recalled (I couldn't find a link) a similar insult directed at Premiers Ralph Klein and Mike Harris in the 2000 federal election. One of my commenters remembered it too and provided yet another example, in almost the same language, of her contempt for men. (That link has since expired, but I found the story here.)

Well, I'll not sink to your level, Alexa -- but I will point out that there's a term used to describe a coarse and abusive woman: A fishwife.

I'm sure you've heard it before. It's an old Atlantic Canada expression.