Hate to spoil a good fabrication, but...

...for all the attempts from the Libs to project two years of mostly-suppressed self-loathing onto another party, the NDP's message still makes far more sense in terms of laying responsibility for an election with the Cons than as a sign of any shift in the likelihood of actually getting there. And it'll be particularly happy to be able to link Harper's refusal to even discuss whether there's any way to salvage some positive results from the current Parliament with Ignatieff's message that cooperation is beneath him.