new new new new new new new spirit of cooperation

Heads up, Langevinians! Tom Flanagan is bored, y’all … bored, and apparently, just a little bit disappointed in your latest budget. But don’t worry – according to his op-ed in the Globe this morning, he has some great ideas on how to make Parliament more exciting and fun and unpredictable and  totally dysfunctional, just like Canadians keep telling the pollsters that they want it to be:

You’d think the Prime Minister would want to wait until after Jim Flaherty’s meeting with NDP finance critic Thomas Mulcair – not to mention that discussion that he was so looking forward to having with Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff – before complaining that their parties’ respective budget recommendations are “extremely thin”. Apparently, you’d be wrong.

According to senior inside sources, earlier this evening, the Prime Minister – yes, that Prime Minister – popped by that den of iniquity known as the Liberal Research Bureau to drop off — no, not a subpoena! Cookies! Cookies, and best wishes for the holiday season! He even shook hands with the few staffers still toiling away at their desks. Maybe there’s hope for the New New New New Spirit of Cooperation after all.