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



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[(Anonymous)]

I am sure there's a name for this logical error ...

Who says it's a logical error? Maybe Harper's unapologetic and unalloyed Harpertude implies a level of (cough) trustworthiness that Ignatieff's weaselaceous and casuitrously tergiversative Ignatieffosity self-evidently lacks -- and you are emotionally responding to a trust-test, not a correctness test.

Something you know to be poison, is more useful -- and, paradoxically, safer -- than something that might be poison[1].

Plus, when you write, "The Liberals are supposed to be the generally competent ... technocrats," you describe them as of, say, 1935-2003 or so, and I'm not even sure the last part of the Chrétien years qualify. It's a bit like saying "General Motors has a reputation for making quality cars," in the mid-20th C. sense of that expression: it ain't necessarily so, anymore. In evidence, as exhibit "A" I offer an out-of-focus, late-delivered and grainy video of recent notoriety, and so on.

Plus, find me an essay where Harper defends torture, with a follow up where he weaselaceously denies actually having meant to say that (citations available on request, for Iggy-poo).

Your ranking Harper > Ignatieff (admittedly in the context of Satan > Harper > Ignatieff) strikes me as being both logical and rational.

TSM_in_Toronto

[1] (Though, personally, I do not believe Harper to be political 'poison'.)