Tough to be tender

Didn't you hear? Cancer is sexy. Well, more specifically, isotope crises.

At least according to Natural Resource minister Lisa Raitt it is.

The tape is OUT and so is the truth. Sloppy minister makes for sloppy aide. After last week's controversy with "secret" nuclear documents left at the CTV offices in Ottawa - for which Raitt offered her resignation and for which her press secretary Jasmine MacDonnell was fired - a new disgrace is plaguing the Natural Resource minister.

A tape recording has been released which was recorded accidentally and left lying around by none other than Jasmine MacDonnell (tough week girlfriend!) The pertinent recording was made in January 2009 during a prolonged car ride between Raitt and MacDonnell. The convo went something like this:

MacDonnell: "OMG...Isotopes? Like, WTF? Most Canadians sooo don't get it."

Raitt: "I know, right? But radioactive leaks are so hot right now. Cancer is sexy."

Well, something like that anyway...you can listen to the real conversation here.

Presumably, what will irk Harper more is the colleague bad mouthing which also took place in the aforementioned conversation. Raitt is heard to be criticizing health minister Leona Aglukkaq, saying she hoped Aglukkaq wouldn't "get anything hot" because Aglukkaq can't hold her own in the house and that her staff is only shielding her.

'Cause its one, two, three strikes - you're out! At the ol' ballgame...