As I'm typing, I'm listening to John McCallum swearing up and down the CBC that all Liberal MP's will vote against this statement.
The CBC interviewer says that Barack Obama raised his own money, implying the other parties should, too.
McCallum's answer: this is not the time to bring up this subject.
Sure, McCallum.
Says the Globe and Mail:
The Liberals are privately livid about the decision to end the funding. However, they were cautioned at their emergency caucus Thursday morning to focus on the economy and job losses rather than the subsidy to political parties.
Gee, that's exactly what McCallum is doing on NewsWorld as we speak. He is just limping through this interview. The interviewer is calling this a game of "chicken".
(I'm doing live-blogging of the CBC all of a sudden)
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Getting back to my original topic...
The point I wanted to make is that the Liberals would have to be crazy to go into this election. They have a lame duck leader. What are they going to do if, theoretically, Stephane Dion becomes Prime Minister. And then they have a leadership race and Ignatieff or Rae become Prime Minister (I shudder at the prospect of either of them being PM). What then?
And we already just had an election...did no one think of that?
That is the stupidest tactic I've seen in a long time. A coalition government makes more sense, although the G&M says that the NDP will not agree to it. Wouldn't that raise constitutional issues?
This would make a big mess.
Just bite the bullet folks. The Conservatives are in charge. Crap, if the Liberals go for this, that doesn't show a lot of good political judgment.
