Weekend Update

So, a mounting number of polls show the CPC is losing public support, presumably because their present strategy is failing. What does a smart party do? Refine their strategy, change their message, probably de-emphasize the parts of their politics that are turning people off. What does the CPC do? Keep diggin that hole, that's what.

Ottawa — The Conservatives say they will attempt to block the government's two budget bills from being passed before the House of Commons summer recess to protest against what they say is excessive and unaccountable spending.

And Conservative Leader Stephen Harper warned yesterday that his party may make further attempts to force an election, although he doubts they would succeed as long as the NDP supports the Liberals.

See, this is why the CPC won't form a government - their insistence on standing "on principle", i.e. their conviction that the Liberals are evil, therefore extremism in the defense of virtue is no vice, right? The problem is that politics isn't about principles. (A lesson the NDP could learn any day now, by the way.) Politics is about winning, and to do that you need to be, let's say, "ideologically flexible". Something the Liberals excel at, but something the Tories were only occasionally capable of, and something the Conservatives seem to have no skill at whatsoever.

Here's hoping that the Conservatives find a decent leader, and soon. I too grow tired of the Liberals, and finding a Party that can run on the "sane opposition" platform would be nice. But first, you have to qualify.