Politics for the Js

I vowed here to stay home on election day if the Tories don't present a plan for government transparency in response to the Gomery Report. If they offer some plans and ideas on some other areas in which a Goverment might play a role all the better. You know, little things like, defense, the judiciary and the Criminal Code, trade and economic policy, etc.

Jay Currie lays out how he thinks things look very bad for the CPC here. I disagree that things are that dire partly out of pathetic hope and partly out of a motivational argument I saw at the Shotgun some time ago which -- and this may be more pathetic hope -- asserts that CPC voters will be more motivated for change than Liberal voters will be to support the Martin regime and drag themselves out to the polls in January. Here's, er, hoping.

All this aside, I find a portion of me agreeing with the other Jay -- Jay Jardine -- here

It shall be great tragicomic theater in any event. I could honestly care less who gets the fucking shiny badge and would much prefer to wrap a pillow around my head for the next few months, but avoiding the combined onslaught of jingle bells and vote-whoring will be nigh impossible.