A Better Criticism Of Verticalness
I miss Scott Feschuck. I miss funny blogposts from the leader's plane about the Colts, and I miss guest posts by PMPM. Further to my last post, which I now admit may have been a bit harsh on Paul Wells, who may have not intended to be so critical, see Prime Minister Harper's Vertical Command Structure Here, and you decide who is the authoritarian.

Paul Wells Likes It Horizontal?
Behold, rich criticism of a vertical command structure from the man whose unflattering book on Prime Minister Martin criticized his office for being horizontal. "Groupthink," he called it. Too much participation from too many people, and too much consensus; the Martin PMO was doomed to failiure in Orwellian terms. "Right Side Up" is actually an insightful book, and as an unrepenting Martinite I even conceded some of the criticisms of the former team. It is a strange reversal though to see Ottawa's Groupthink Decryer In Chief Paul Wells attack

“If the cat wasn’t dead, I’d have killed it by now.”
And the award for quotation of the decade goes to ...Drumroll please...Dimitri Soudas of the Prime Minister's office!!!

Conservatives make for nastiest Parliament ever, Parliamentary Review says
Courtesy of Evan Sotiropoulos at the Canadian Parliamentary Review, see how this bunch of Tories is leading the decent into darkness:38th Parliament(Liberal Minority) Conservative - LiberalPolitical/Partisan Statements 328 (42.1%) - 148 (13.5%)39th Parliament(Conservative Minority) Conservative - LiberalPolitical/Partisan Statements 569 (47.3%) - 250 (24.9%)"My extensive review of parliamentary transcripts showed that unparliamentary or partisan discourse is on the rise during Members’ Statements in the House of Commons. Pol

Becoming increasingly harder for anti-americanism...
Daily Kos has a brilliant little breakdown on House Democrats who voted to support the new health care plan. Some of the "aye" votes come from districts with PVI as high as R-10, which shows how important and contentious this bill is. Now for the Senate...If this passes, our precious Canadian identity of being "not American" will become more difficult than ever to demonstrate. Our pluralistic and tolerant society with gun control and public health care will be hard to distinguish from our neighbours to the South soon. They