Here we go again, the same weak arguments against voting for principles in case that act results in the minority government of the Tories falling, and an election is called.
Harper has run rings around Dion yet again in the past few weeks.
Harper outsnookered Dion and his leadership team on the Afghanistan file. Instead of the Liberal Party setting out a carefully thought, comprehensive alternative to the debacle of a policy now being implemented by the government, Dion allowed Harper to frame the discussion, and meekly fell in line with what Harper wanted: an extension of the mission with some meaningless words about change. Was it Harper's smile that convinced Dion that he had found a new buddy?
Harper outsnookered Dion and the leadership team on the crime bill. Look what happened: Harper challenged Dion - tell the Senate to pass it, or we treat it as a vote of confidence. And Dion? He ducked the fight. Skipped the vote. Then, apparently, quietly passed the word to the Liberals in the Senate to pass the crime bill. The result? Dion looks like a diminutive chicken, afraid of his own shadow.
Now comes the budget, and already Dion is capitulating, using the tired old story about the cost of an election.
Whatever happened to Liberals who had principles, who possessed courage, who were prepared to fight for Canadians?
What a sorry lot we have leading us in Parliament. Perhaps we need another election to wipe out a third of sitting Liberal MPs, so that the party can start all over again, with a new slate of candidates for election to parliament, replacing these timid souls, and a new leader.
It is becoming very hard to hold your head up as a Liberal.
