QotD: Prime Minister Harper's hypocrisy

Even the boy with a crush John Ibbitson wrote this in the Globe yesterday: "Mr. Harper's supporters will defend this contradiction as necessary pragmatism. His opponents will call it hypocrisy. But this is beyond dispute: Stephen Harper used to say one thing, and now he does another."

The point here is not about any particular policy, of course, but the style. That is the thing that will be spoken about when he loses whether in 18 months or 8 years. Power may be fun and he may think he is just great but there are few things that wear quickly than a semi-smarty-pants who treats people like dummies. Only after overcoming that particular trip line do you get to put policies in place that will last beyond the week after the next election. I've said it before, but so far he is the conqueror of brown paper bags who marches victoriously amongst the remains of fratricide.

Alan McLeod, "That's So Last Week...", Gen X at 40, 2006-04-20