Aw. Just when it was getting good.

[dejadrew]

Phooey. For a while there, Canadian politics were EXCITING. I mean, we had an honest to goodness coup! Granted, it was a very, very Canadian coup, which was strictly legal and by the book and involved a great deal of letter-writing and, for a few hours this morning, a live round the clock door watch. SUSPENSE!

"As you can see, we are still waiting for the Governor-General's front door to open, and Stephen Harper to get his pasty butt out here and tell us whether or not he's still Prime-Minister."

"Wait, wait! It's opening!"

"And is there, yes, yes, I believe someone is coming out, and... oh. No, no, it appears it is just a security guard coming to close the doors, which blew open, and now there is a draft."

"That's the third time that's happened, isn't it?"

"Yes it is. In other news, the microphone boom guy is going to walk off a leg cramp, and we are sending Doug to get some double-doubles and Timbits."

All that build up, with the angry speech-making, and the breathless door-watching... The end came as a helluvan anti-climax. The Governor General came out of her hole, saw her shadow, and gave us six more weeks of Harper.

Sigh. Sorry, opposition parties. No coup for you. Not 'til January, anyway. Well, at least we don't have another damn election. Yet.