Followup to Federal Fiasco - my feelings
Since I’ve been a bit slack on my posts this past week, I missed following up on my political disaster review of last week with an entertaining and engaging blow-by-blow. Since I wrote previously, things happened roughly in this order - focusing on how generally inept Dion has handled this thing from the beginning.
- Both McKenna and Manley actively distanced themselves from the coalition, lead by everyone’s least favourite Liberal.
- Marois and then Parizeau (always good for a laugh), piped up with solid support for the goodies and cash that would follow with the coalition and added to the growing dislike of the idea.
- May steps in and throws her considerable influence behind the coalition, mistaking her trouncing at the polls as some sort of credibility, and she opines aloud that she’s Senate material. People shake their heads.
- A Liberal MP speaks out against Dion and the current coalition, making Dion look less.
- A polls suggests that people like the coalition not very much.
- Dion blinks in the midst of the staredown and suggests that his well thought out and rock hard plan might, maybe also include a coalition with the Tories.
- Ignatieff and Rae continue to pretend that they support Dion.
- Dion unleashes The video that seems to lend an air of illegitimacy to his revenge fueled power grab.
- Harper consults with our entirely unelected (and hot) head-of-state and dodges a bullet until at least mid-January.
- More Liberals are very subtle, almost unpleasant, about their love for Dion.
- Ignatieff and Rae start to no longer pretend that they respect Dion while still pretending to like the coalition idea.
- Ignatieff and Rae suggest a quick rather than long and painful overthrough of everyone’s favourite Liberal.
- Dion finally quits and ends months of elector pain, stopping the joke fodder machine, while Ignatieff surmises that the coalition sucks.
- Coalition partners remind Ignatieff (or the unmentioned Rae) of his duty to their fine plan.
- Rae decides that he’s not ready to be all powerful leader of the natural governing party of Canada.
- Ignatieff gets in there, but not everyone is happy about it.
- And throughout, the Tories continue a campaign to discredit the coalition and the Liberals in general.
So here we stand. This has truly been the most interesting 2 weeks of Canadian politics in the past 15 years. I hope there’s more to come.
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