Yup, just pointing out more of Harper being a hypocrite, ALW. It’s shockingly easy.

Same old same old from you as well I see. Hansard and old news footage of Harper being two-faced, and you can’t even offer up a defence of it.

-Two weeks ago, Harper and company are mocking Dion, daring him to take them down in the Fall and boldly predicting that he wouldn’t.

- An article in the Hill Times quotes an anonymous Conservative strategist as predicting Dion would not take the Cons. down, but even if he did want to, the Bloc wouldn’t, in this guys opinion. He predicted they’d still be governing into the spring.

Not 10 days later, all of a sudden we have PM Harper demanding that the opposition parties bend to support his agenda, or else Parliament is dysfunctional and so he needs to call an election, breaking the spirit, if not the letter of his fixed term election law.

So what changed?

1) Harper knows the economy is going to tank in a few months, or he’s going to be in the red with his next Budget, so he prefers to go now then later.

2) The Committees looking at the in-and out scandal will be highly embarrassing for him, as perhaps will the actual court case against Elections Canada

3) He knows he’s faring crappy in the 4 byelections, knows he wont win any of them, and doesn’t want Liberal momentum going into the House this Fall

4) A combination of some or all of the above.

If not, then please explain how PMSH is going against the spirit of the law, unless he is sure to win.

Libs and Cons have been tied in the polls for a year. Where is the advantage? (fair or unfair advantage).

But then we’re talking ancient history, aren’t we . . . I see you had to go all the way back to 2004 to find that one ; ).

Good catch.