HORROR OF FUCKING HORRORS!B-GRRRL FUCKS OFF TO THE GRITS!

I thought that the reporters were on meth when I read that Tory MP Belinda Stronach has defected to become Little Paulyanna's Little Big Prize Catch™.

Stronach, who was considered one of the rising young stars of the Tory caucus, has joined the Liberal cabinet and was rewarded with the portfolio of minister of human resources.

Her move gives Prime Minister Paul Martin's minority Liberals a better chance of surviving a crucial confidence motion on the federal budget on Thursday, and consequently avoid being forced into a summer election. (My emphasis... Y2D)

Part of her reason to fuck-off from the Tory camp was due to her disagreements with Stephen Harper's leadership and direction. Her (former) party's push for a non-confidence motion over Adscam also grated her to a certain degree.

"(...) by forcing an election before the Conservative party has grown and established itself in Quebec, the hold over Quebec of the Bloc Quebecois can only grow into the vacuum. The result will be to stack the deck in favour of separatism, and the possibility of a Conservative government beholden to the separatists."

Whether it's due to the concern for her fellow 905 constituents (Martin promised millions for infrastructure in the Greater Toronto Area) or ambition, Belinda Stronach is playing a very serious game that could go either way.

She would either be remembered as someone who cared about the direction that the country is supposed to be going, or someone who would do anything for a piece of the power pie.

All the better reason to rush out and see "Revenge of the Sith" this coming Thursday.

PS: is it just me, or doesn't Supreme Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid) look a bit like PM Paul Martin, albeit remotely? Just wondering...

PPS: here's an advance review of SW III: ROTS. Enjoy.

PPPS: the "Ed Zeppelin" strikes with his own 2¢ on the Stronach betrayal.

P4S: erstwhile suiter, CPC MP Peter MacKay, has learned a new meaning to the term "getting fucked". Sorry, Petey.

P5S: as Morrisey the blogger wrote in his most recent Stronach commentary -

Can you imagine the political shock waves that would happen here (and the weather forecasts for Hades) if Hillary Clinton announced her defection to the GOP in order to get an appointment to George Bush's Cabinet?

Now why didn't I think about that one? Wait a sec... I have a life, right?