Election Speculation

Okay, I know that as long as Stephen Harper seems to be saying "come on, bring us down, let's have an election now", Stéphane Dion is going to be reluctant to do anything to bring the government down.

Still.

It's making him look bad. They're both playing political games, trying to make the election happen when it will most benefit their party, but it's Dion who looks like he's basing everything on the polls. We all know that Harper's trying to force the Liberals to bring him down when he wants to be brought down, but he's also getting to implement his agenda, so he at least looks like he has principles. The Liberals, with their constant abstentions and Dion's weak explanation of what he would need to support the budget ("acceptable or at least not too harmful for the Canadian economy"), look like they're playing the worst kind of politics.

Maybe it's unrealistically idealist of me (probably), but I can't help but wish the Liberals (and, you know, everyone elected to public office) would just make a stand on the issues, and elections be damned.

Because I gotta say, the political games are not making anybody look like a future Prime Minister.