Surgical Roughness

      Wow. Paul Wells' latest column for Macleans is absolutely scathing in its admonishment of Paul Martin. There's what I'd call a surgical roughness to it, the cuts are clean and precise but they're done with a shiv instead of a more dispassionate scalpel. Worse, for Martin anyway: Wells is right. Only the most ardent Liberal supporters would dispute his points, and they'd do so, it seems, more out of defensiveness than genuine rebuttal. Devastating, absolutely devastating.

    By the way, don't think I'm only inclined to pick on Mr Martin: see, for example, Lorrie Goldstein's calling-to-account of Mr Harper in the Tory-rific Toronto Sun.  I'd provide a link to a similar calling-to on Mr. Layton except nobody seems to be wasting any ink on him lately-- and that, for his blunders and idiocies, very few seem to be accusing the NDP of duplicity. But I think Mr Wells' indictment is the most forceful articulation of the "unaligned" voters' sentiment of the PM-- and why the PM seems to be on his way to defeat, unless there's a truly Sophoclean peripeteia in the next few days.