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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: frankl who wrote (12865)	11/30/2008 5:27:47 AM
From: stan_hughes	4 Recommendations Respond to of 37260

There was a Canadian political consultant (not aligned with any party) on the tube on Friday discussing what happened with the vote subsidy issue, and he described it thusly (I'm paraphrasing of course) -- "Stephen Harper has always had the belief in politics that when you hold somebody up against the wall with a knife at their throat, they have no other option but to submit -- however, that's not correct, because sometimes they can knee you in the groin and try to resist instead, and that's exactly what's happened here" I laughed for at least 15 minutes after hearing that description Harper's in the soup now -- he either has to fall on his own sword, or he has to eat crap and also appear that his lowly opposition can tell him how to govern -- what a complete and totally ill-advised screwup