Glad for Vlad

Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulated Russian leader Vladimir Putin on once again taking control of his country. "I'm glad for Vlad," said Harper. "His party really knows how to rig--er, run--an election."

Harper further commented, "I see nothing wrong with someone being president or prime minister for sixteen years, or even longer. Sounds good to me."

Asked about the robocall scandal now developing, with Canadians in fifty-seven ridings complaining of bogus telephone calls possibly leading to election irregularities, the Prime Minister pointed to a sign on his desk: The Buck Stops Somewhere Else. 

Meanwhile, Willard Snively, spokesman for the government's official Response and Denial Department, said, "Look, they were robocalls, right? Made by machines. We believe some rogue robots took over the system, like that paranoid computer in Kubrick's Space Odyssey movie. No humans were involved."