Perhaps the most remarkable part of the Cons' desperate evasion on Bev Oda's behalf has been the degree to which it violates the credo that's served as this blog's tagline for the past few weeks. There may once have been some opportunity to cut Oda loose in hopes of minimizing the damage to Stephen Harper personally - but after two consecutive days of the Prime Minister using his role as the face of the government to poke a thumb in the eye of anybody who thinks honesty or even a willingness to concede some connection to reality has the slightest relevance to a party's fitness to hold office, there doesn't seem to be any turning back now.
That may make Oda's job relatively secure in the short term. But if we are headed for a spring election, it surely figures to make the kingpin weaker than he would have been otherwise. And if the current level of observer outrage over a government that's willing to ignore crimes within its midst holds up through an election campaign, we may well see the entire edifice come toppling down.
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