Suitable for framing

A anonymous "close advisor of Michael Ignatieff" nicely sums up the problems with the Libs' track record of capitulations to the Cons in explaining why the party figures to try to force an election sometime around November-December 2009 (roughly translated from Le Devoir):

At some point, you can't wait forever. You can't play cat and mouse. You have to have the courage to defeat the government. With the economy deteriorating, you have to be capable of providing an alternative, or else you're endorsing the government.

Of course, it's left unexplained how lacking in courage and endorsing the government on every confidence vote for over two years is supposed to be a mark in the Libs' favour in an election this fall. But voters who take the source's comments at face value would seem to have every reason to question why the Libs have stuck Canada with more Harper government now.