Tories to back off if budget passes?!?!?!?

[Telly Savalas]

The federal Conservatives, after a week of bitter parliamentary gamesmanship, now appear willing to pin their hopes for a spring election on one high-stakes roll of the dice Thursday when the federal budget comes to a vote.
...
Mr. Hill <Tory House Leader> signalled, however, that his party would likely decide to back off if it can't topple Mr. Martin this week. “If circumstances don't change I suspect we (wouldn't) see any further action prior to the summer recess,” he told reporters.

Link from the Globe and Mail

Wait a minute here. These yahoos have been rambling on about how the Libs don't have the moral authority to lead, and how since the pseudo-confidence vote they don't have the constitutional authority either. They've been claiming it's a crisis situation that must be dealt with immediately. Now all of a sudden they've decided that everything's cool if the budget passes. What the fuck is the matter with these people?

[applegrove]

1. You should have heard cross-country check up. One guy got on the

air and just nailed the Harperites for debasing things for political reasons and getting negative.

Oh - it was lovely.

[Spazito]

2. It's called bad internal polls...

not to mention the public ones.

[Maple]

3. The best laid plans

of mice and angry ol' Conservative white Anglo guys.... :rofl:

[Joel]

4. It's

bad strategy to look incredibly desperate to toss out the liberals. They need to look pissed, but reasonable at the same time. So far it hasn't worked.