Dion poked his head out of a hole and said 6 more weeks of government. - Election on Dec 3.

“PS: Where is Dion?” CTV has a brief (really brief) clip with him, and longer with Iggy. I think Dion had to go home to change his underwear. This has not been one of his better weeks.

Come to think of it, has he HAD a good week since winning the leadership race?

Naively, I never thought I would see the day day that the Liberals would be in such disarray. Their malaise is pretty similar to the implosion that the Conservatives went through for the 10 years after 1993. Martin was barely better than Kim Campbell. Dion, who is probably a decent guy with some good ideas, seems rudderless. The knives in the back room are being sharpened and it is doubtful he will survive. I doubt Iggy will be much better.

Dion was probably better off hiding from the media last evening. He is between a rock and a hard place courtesy of the Bloc and NDP. He can’t win either way and this moment will be his downfall - soon.

The only thing that can topple the goverment would be if Iggy’s supporters pearl harbour Dion by not voting for the Throne speech.

Dion would go into the election unprepared, get his ass kicked and step down so Iggy could be crowned as leader.

That’s what I would do, and I’m a frickin’ genius.

I don’t think anyone except Harper, Layton, and Duceppe want an election right now, and if Dion votes down the speech, the voters are going to send their apathy and ire against him. I agree that Dion needs to prove himself on a battleground, but there’s no use riding into certain death if it makes your opponent stronger.

The Grits should voice their opposition, but let the TS ride, then make every future vote a confidence vote, and make the Tories fight the war on the battlefield, not during a ceremonial show of force.

If he does that though, Dion’s gotta actually show up and take a stand.

Wow…leave the site for 6 months and everybody starts drinking the Kool-Aid.

Dion is going to be the person that resurrects the Liberal Party. While many Liberal supporters and anti-Conservatives are busy sharpening the cutlery for Dion because he won’t challenge Harper, Dion is doing what he has to in order to avoid fighting futile battles. The MSM are more interested in blood-sports than objective reporting, and so they are propagating this meme that Dion has no guts. The Kool-Aid drinking Liberals and Lefties are so aghast that the Conservatives have **DARED** to lay their hands on the levers of power in Canada that you have them wobbling between suicide and bouts of Harper Derangement Syndrome. Either way, they’re pretty much useless for the democratic renewal that the Liberals need.

Dion has managed to take a broken political party and make it a little less broken. He has managed to avoid a general election that would see Canadians venting a lot of anger on the Liberals for bringing it about. And he can still bring the party together over the coming year. The fire that he will walk through over the coming year will temper him. And if he is able to shed some of the moonbats and crooks from the Liberal Party, then he has a chance of bringing the party in from the wilderness.

Will he be Prime Minister? Probably not during his tenure. But if he is forced out of office by factional fighting, then the Liberal Party is pretty much doomed and will likely be supplanted by the Greens (sorry Jack!) and even they won’t have the political trust among voters to allow them to be anything more than official opposition.

Face it, Canada will have a Harper government for many years–and that is why he is able to move as confidently as he has in his tenure as compared to the rather limp approach of his predecessor, Martin. Yeah, I know, democracy’s a bitch–ain’t it?

Conservative values are Canadian values after all. :)

Who thought he would win the Liberal leadership?

Cherniak.

Neil has a point.

No one thought he could do it, and yet here he is. No one thinks he can take out Harper, or at least survive an election intact…

The other night I was listening to some conservative radio, and the topic of the night was “Theme Songs for Dion after the SFTT”. Of course conservatives were calling in and suggesting all kinds of silly songs.

What I wouldn’t have given to be Apollo Creed with Dion for 10 minutes…..

“Eye of the Tiger, Rock. Eye of the Tiger!”