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[thebitterguy]

• 19:05 Harper speech drinking game: Everytime he says "sepratists", take a drink! #
• 19:07 Harper: "Axis of Evil! Axis of Evil!" Did David Frum write that speech? #
• 14:31 I guess the GG had no choice. Hopefully the coalition holds together until parliament resumes and they put through the no confidence vote. #
• 17:56 Anyone tried Lips for the 360?I'm contemplating it as a christmas gift. #

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Take it like a man...

[saltedlithium.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Changing the government over such a small "economic statement" would have been legal, but not entirely right. Just like having the Bloq sign an agreement letting everything slide for the next year. But none of that matters.

Forgive the length and width of my steel hard knowledge I'm about to thrust into your tight comment box, but I dropped this on Knit Nut's (knitnut.net) blog the other day:

When the announcement initially leaked this coalition was being seriously negotiated one of the first questions was, of course, who gets to be Prime Minister? Nobody at first really thought Dion would continue as PM in a coalition, so the rumour started that afternoon the Liberal caucus would have a vote and put Iggy in as PM.

But Dion and his supporters fought back, as did Mr. Rae. And by the end of business that day, or maybe early the next day, it was settled Mr. Dion would be PM under the agreement until a leadership convention next spring.

Late that afternoon or early that evening a CTV camera crew caught up to Iggy in an airport and asked about his involvement. And he denied he had anything to do with the negotiations between the NDP, Liberals and Bloq.

During that interview is when I knew this thing would never go ahead.

On the Liberal side this whole thing has been, in my opinion, led by Mr. Rae and Mr. Dion. Neither of whom, coalition or not, will be PM after next spring. And, since the only Liberal leadership candidate with a shot at being PM doesn’t entirely support the coalition, every Liberal member of Parliament will have an extra couple of weeks to decide if it’s best to go ahead with the coalition, or just sit and wait for Iggy to take over.