Will Not All The Perfumes Of Arabia?

      This blog is no supporter of Sheila Copps, but it also finds the Marinite attempts to purge the party of supporters of now-ousted Jean Chretien utterly insidious. It's looking like soon the bloody entire Liberal party will be a murder of Martinites (or would it be a gaggle?), a collect of cronies and acolytes. And we thought Chretien had authoritarian tendencies... *rolls eyes* Chairman Mao would approve. The apparent Martin credo: If at all possible, don't merely dump your opponents to the backbenches: turf them from parliament altogether. I can imagine Martin and his advisers walking about Parliament Hill scraping madly at the palms of the hands desperately trying to get all of the blood of the deposed off their hands. Who knew the old man had so much blood in him?

      (By the way, why is Martin's team trying so hard to persuade Copps into a patronage appointment? Because, if she decides, as she seems to have decided, to run for the nomination again, the race for the Liberal nomination will be a proverbial long, hard slog for Martinite Valeri. Copps has a surprisingly large and loyal constituency. If she does win the nomination, and then the seat in the next election, she could likely prove to be the terrier perpetually scrapping at the PM's heels. And it seems Martin will not brook the kind of internal snickering and second-guessing which brought him to power. Why should the PM have a citizenry when he can have minions?)