I Hate Minority Gubmnts

The reason I especially dislike minority Liberal gubmnts is that if they don't get in bed with the socialists, they face another election, and they usually prefer sleeping with socialists.

Mike, at London Fog, has two quotes that are appropriate for this situation. The first is from H.L. Mencken:

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."

And this one is from Andrew Coyne:

So now we know: there is no price Paul Martin isn't willing to make you pay to save his job. And there is no amount of corruption Jack Layton won't overlook as long as the price is right: at $4.6-billion, it works out to about $250 million per NDP MP. About the same price as the sponsorship program, as it happens.