rfmcdonald | [LINK] "It's Time for A Change. Again." (Reply)

I agree entirely with blogger James Bow's reasons on the need for a federal election, in case you're curious.

have to say that I’m ready for it. It’s time for a change; time to throw the bastards out, as the saying goes. And I know I’m not alone. In recent weeks, there have been some interesting defections. Conservative-libertarian Jay Currie has jumped ship to the Liberals and the principled small-c conservative blogger Kateland is wavering about supporting Ignatieff, but doesn’t seem interested in sending her vote Harper’s way.

I don’t always (or, in Jay’s case, often) agree with these individuals on political matters, but on Harper it seems as though we have all come to the same conclusion. This is a man who governs by no principle but his own self-aggrandizement. This is a man who believes that every criticism, no matter how valid, is a political attack against his leadership. His government has, in three short years, developed a level of incompetence and arrogance that eclipses the final months of the previous Liberal government. Worse, his government has created nightmares for specific Canadian citizens, from Abousfian Abdelrazik to Suaad Mohamud and beyond, not just through the same incompetence that gave us a shortage in medical isotopes, but through active, mean-spirited stonewalling of any attempt to do right by these individuals.

It’s amazing: the Liberals took over ten years to slip to a point where the need to send them to the political wilderness to learn some humility and reinvent themselves overruled the wisdom of bringing an inexperienced opposition party to power, but the Conservatives passed that point in three.

Democracy might be complicated but, well, does anyone want the worst-case scenario of their country to be like Japan, under very recently under the rule of a Liberal Democratic Party that mismanaged the country?

Go read the rest of his post.