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[james_davis_nicoll]

Ignatieff leaves self weasel room while threatening Conservative minority government with potential budget defeat.



[Poll #1335607]

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[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I will say that at least the threat of all this will neuter the worst of the neocon impulses that Darth Harper started to succumb to, so we're going to see much less "stay the course" and more intervention in the upcoming budget.

As to whether that budget will contain enough pork to feed the ravening alliance of crocodiles circling around the flaming, listing marsh-buggy that is the CPC, dunno; I'd click a "damfino" button if there was one.

-- Steve should probably lay in some popcorn for next week.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I've changed my mind, or maybe it's the ague clouding my judgement, but I think that Harper likes the PM's chair too much and he'll make enough concessions in the budget to make the coalition look churlish if they go through with the non-confidence motion. We'll get another armed-truce style parliament for a few months with all sides eyeing each other for false moves, and probably another election in the summer or fall.

-- Steve's wondering if sustained tylenol-and-hot-chocolate doses have Delphic properites.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I am not convinced Harper won't still manage to piss off the loyal opposition. (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090122.wPOLenvi0122/BNStory/politics/home) Of course, if Ig's Liberals can be bought off, that won't matter.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

With respect, that's a "57 card-carrying members of the Communist Party" type accusation at the moment; no proof, sounds good, tars the opposition, and it's easy to say because the bomb-throwing wing of the NDP isn't going to wear much blame if we go to the polls again.

-- Steve doesn't doubt that there are CPC-droids on the benches who'd try to do precisely that, but thinks that Harper will be shoving pillows into any faces advocating anything (else) that would terminate his lease on 24 Sussex.