Another meeting cancelled due to Con incompetence

Following up on this morning's talk about the Cons' strategy shift, it seems the Cons are focusing on keeping things "quiet" by suppressing yet another set of information, rather than on anything approaching "good management":

Conservative MPs blocked witnesses Thursday from testifying at a Commons committee on the Afghan detainee controversy.

The ethics committee was to hear from a law professor and a freelance journalist about whether the foreign affairs department deliberately withheld scathing human rights reports on Afghanistan.

But Tory MPs Mike Wallace and Scott Reid tied up the committee for two hours, arguing they were not prepared for the witnesses and that the committee should seek legal advice.

Needless to say, using their own lack of preparation as an excuse to avoid hearing from witnesses can only reflect poorly on Wallace and Reid. And since committees have been listed as just one of the many areas under the control of Con strategists, the decision to plead ignorance reflects on the entire organization.

While the Cons may have managed to avoid yet another specific embarrassment in the short term, they figure to lose out far more in the long run based on their ever-expanding record of lies and cover-ups. And it doesn't figure to be long before it's the Cons' stay in power that gets cancelled as a result.