The Procrastinator-in-Chief

Under the title "The serial government slows further" BondPapers deconstructs the slow pace of, well, everything, in Dannyland and Labradan:

Since Danny Williams took office in 2003 he's tried to manage the provincial government with everything - literally every little thing - flowing across his desk.

He's a micro-manager for micro-managers.

It shows in everything government does.

Or, to be more accurate what it doesn't do.

Which brings this to mind, from a front-page Will Hilliard report in The Telegram of September 14, 2003:

"We need to have an eight- to 10-year plan for this province that sets out here's what we have to do and here's how we're going to do it," said Williams.

"We... we... we." Is that inclusive, exclusive, or Royal?

Whichever it is, it's four calendar years into the Danny Williams era, and "we" — inclusive, exclusive, or Royal — are nowhere closer to seeing the "eight- to 10-year" plan that "we needed to have" four calendar years ago. Does the clock only start ticking on "eight- to 10-year" once the plan is issued, or does Danny get credit, or even double credit, for time served?

And meanwhile, the provincial economy is headed in the same direction as those of the countries under the regimes that also used to have multi-year economic plans promulgated by Glorious Leaders.

They were really fond of "Five-Year Plans".