On this (current) clusterfuck in Ottawa...

I have to admit, I'm getting my fair share of laughs out of the political turmoil in our nation's capital. Two months ago, Prime Minister Steve Harper won his second minority government in just over two years (For those unfamiliar with the Westminster Parliamentary System, a minority government is run by the party who won the most parliamentary seats, but has less than the combined number of the opposition parties. Check out Wikipedia for a more concise explanation.) and decides that he wants to -- literally -- destroy the more left-leaning opposition parties by cutting taxpayer-supplied government funding to those parties and paving the way for his ramming his agenda down he throats of every Canadian. And the minor detail of failing to address a stimulus package concerning the economic downturn.

The self-styled "master tactician" didn't foresee those three other parliamentary parties disagreeing with him.

So now we have two of those parties forming a coalition with the tacit backing of the third and threatening to (legally) depose King Steve and his Conservative Party.

It's going to be interesting.

Did Steve win the last election? Undeniably yes. However, he won with only 37% of the vote. That means that 63% of the voters voted for a more liberal approach to government, and whether he likes it or not, Stephane Dion, Jack Layton, and Gilles Duceppe represent that 63% in Parliament.