Remember how he was there all the time in the election? Making us feel like he could smile and wave and knew we were out here? I was thinking about how Stevie has gone silent even while his MP roasted a bit in the first week of his mandate and the Globe has been thinking about it as well …

I went to Kings like him and went when his son did but I also went to Kings with the NDP leader who ran the bar, too, and one of the move-y and shake-y NDP members mom's went to school with my mom...in Scotland...and me and him later, too. So I pay attention to NS politics even though I moved away …

Apparently the Great Sulk has begun in the new PMO and the small circle of others it acknowledges:  •  “Former Tory cabinet minister Garth Turner (Halton) - who was defeated in 1993 and returned to the House of Commons last month - wrote on his website he "came face-to-face with the party machine …

It's here again. Why does this work? Why do you demand bullet points on Friday but separate posts the rest of the week?  •  Update: New Canadian hero!  •  Update #2: BTW, if anyone suggests that the economy was not strong at the end of 2005, before the Tories, think again. High dollar and exports …

...but, boy oh boy, do people love finding fault with the new guys:  •  “By contrast, Mr. Harper struck the correct image in the campaign. It appeared he had gained a genuine sense of the country and its people. But with one foul stroke -- his cabinet choices -- he abandoned that good sense. Power …

Are these really the guys who were running the country?

Ok - not mayhem but sorta like that feeling when Elmer Fudd get wacked on the head and goes yuddily-yuddily-yuddily-yuddily... as the little stars float around his head. To review:  •  Jean Charest says don't be touching my deal, Stevie.Don says - but there's no real deal past March 2006.David …

What a difference a day makes. It's like 1992 all over again with conservative unhappy with conservative and lots of lashing out here and there about what it all means and what is going to happen.  •  So what is the up side? We'll more than taking nerve, Harper's cabinet displays some guts. Me, I …

Following up on last week, funny how a pledge to honour the first year of an agreement now works out to honouring it for about seven weeks:  •  “He said he will end the current national child-care funding deal with the provinces effective March 31.”  •  Don has pointed out that this is in the fine …