How It Went Down

Right Ho! has a bare-bones account of how the vote went down last night. By his way of thinking:

The Conservative Party now realizes it has no allies in Parliament. And the window of opportunity in bringing down the Liberal government in the fall, or even the spring of 2006, is starting to get smaller.

Perhaps now, those who have been clamoring for the Conservatives to flog policy, will understand why Harper has been reluctant to do so. Disdain for Liberal scandal and corruption is the only tie that binds the Conservatives and the Bloc. Harper can't be arsed to explain to those poor dumb Canadians how a Conservative government would, uh, govern because when he does it is going to be increasingly difficult for the Bloc and the NDP to jump under the sheets with him.

It's going to take something really sleazy like offering pizza and strippers to campaign workers before this opportunity arises again. Oh, never mind