We need a thorough and massive house cleaning, and yes, that was meant as a double entendre.

As to Harper’s partisanship, he is beginning to remind me a bit of Dief in that respect. Every day was : “Libs to the right, Libs to the left, but still I stood firm!” It may have driven him slightly mad in the end.

That’s worth GOLD in the CPC party. GOLD. And LOTS OF VOTES.

Many CPC supporters, myself included, were uncomfortable with Mulroney having the ear of the new PM. Personally, I was happy to see him cut asunder during the whats-his-name chronicles (the German guy, you remember).

To paraphrase Margaret Wente, Canadians will vote for arrogance over incompetence every time.

To paraphrase others, I’m not interested in having a beer or being friends with my PM. I want him to run the country. Unrelated skillsets.

Actually, it’s not so much their right to be in Parliament. They did, after all, win their ridings in the election.

It’s holding the gov’t hostage that I have a problem with, i.e. “won’t vote against budgets” which really means the budgets will have to contain things “good for Quebec” or no vote.

It didn’t help that on DAY ONE, Duceppe talked about the coalition being good for Quebec and ultimately good for sovereignty.

And as an ex-card-carrying member of a separatist party, I would never have wanted that party to have their hands on the federal chequebook, EVER. Serious conflict of interest.

Had the Liberals & NDP, combined, held 155 seats I suspect many Canadians (myself included) wouldn’t have liked the coalition idea but would have STFU as obviously, it is legal. However, by relying on support of a party whose stated goal is to remove a province from Canada, it’s a completely different picture.

How do you think the Anglophones in Montreal, that have supported the Liberal Party through thick & thin seeing them as the last line of defence against the separatists, are feeling about the Liberals joining forces with them? I’d be friggin’ furious, probably even more bugged than I, as a CPC supporter, am about the whole thing.

Very very tacky and unCanadian.

But, there is another possibility yet. That the Liberals hammer out some sort of budget compromise with the Conservatives. A compromise that could include Harper stepping down as Conservative leader. Seems the Liberal Party might not hold the monopoly on ‘anonymous party insider sources’.

Folks are latchin’ on to the idea that they resoundingly voted against the idea of a PM Dion and now it’s being foisted on them.

I figger the smartest thing the coalition could do is start plotting the next election. They need to work out non-compete agreements in any riding where they can whip the Con’s. Instead of uneducated voters trying to vote strategically to game the unfair FPTP system, we’d have the parties doing it.

The next election could be next March or April, if the Con’s can’t pass the budget. Instead of tryin’ to sell the coalition, they oughta be tryin’ to work together on winnin’ coalition seats by not running against one another in strategic ridings.

JB

But, I’ve distracted you from my own best interest. Please continue to belittle, demean and dismiss.