[swilhelm73]

Liberals do these things with the utmost sincerity. By now Martin has probably persuaded himself that the Layton budget was the one he always intended to enact. A clever Liberal leader can turn on a dime, as Trudeau did in 1974 when he ridiculed the Tory wage-and-price-controls plan, then adopted it soon after he was re-elected.

Well heck, out Democrats are even "better" at this sort of thing. Remember LBJ demonizing Goldwater because the latter supposedly planned to send American troops to fight in Vietnam? Or Clinton attacking Bush 41 for lying on taxes, and then immediately after winning the election repudiating his own tax cut pledge?

[GMMAC]

Given that "better" when it comes to socialists is pretty much like comparing the relative merits of two very similar venereal diseases, how be we call it a tie?