Well, what do you know? Who would have thought Steve would have caved in but he did just that tonight and scrapped his plan to destroy his enemies by eliminating public party financing.
Clearly they got the message on that one point but they still don't get it on the stimulus issue. The fact Harper has finally been shown to have a weak spot demonstrates the Opposition can be effective if it just gets its act together; and far as I can tell they have no plans to call off their non-confidence vote on December 8 nor should they.
In honour of this surprise news, I present my musical selection for the week. I was going to pick this one anyway, but the breaking news was just plain serendipity. Ladies and gentleman, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Now to whatever's on TV, besides ice hockey ...
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2 comments:
Let's not fool ourselves... Harper will bring the party financing thing back... Soon. We need to ensure we slam him down now. Otherwise he will re-intro that into the Commons all by itself. This will lead to the opposition clearly having to face this issue. As it stands, this coalition is completely about Harper's lack of caring for the Canadian economy and the Canadian people in need...
They must go down now, so we can save democracy (by allowing the other parties to improve their fundraising apparatus.
Yeah, I probably should have added the words "for now." lol You do have a point though, it's way past time to revamp fundraising -- five years is long enough I think.
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