2008, pre-election: Liberal bigwigs make a ridiculous spectacle of themselves proclaiming that they'll never deign to cooperate with the likes of the NDP.
2008, post-election: Having spent the campaign echoing Stephen Harper's desperate message that a coalition would be illegitimate, the Liberals conclude that they're willing to cooperate after all, only to botch the job.
2011, pre-election: Liberal bigwigs make a ridiculous spectacle of
themselves proclaiming that they'll never deign to cooperate with the likes of the NDP.
2011, post-election: Having spent the
campaign echoing Stephen Harper's desperate message that a coalition
would be illegitimate, the Liberals conclude that they're willing to
cooperate after all, only to botch the job.
2015, pre-election: Liberal bigwigs begin to make a ridiculous spectacle of
themselves proclaiming that they'll never deign to cooperate with the likes of the NDP.
From all available precedent, we should fully expect the Libs to again walk back their inexplicable aversion to cooperation once the next federal election has passed. But is it too much to ask that they stop wasting so much of their (and our) time and energy convincing themselves not to do what in all likelihood will need to be done to ensure a better federal government?
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