Harper's conservatives are making good use of their time off. They're now wasting more tax dollars on a negative ad campaign against the Liberal party and the proposal of the coalition government.

They claim that power has to be earned and that they were voted in, not the Liberal party and those who would support a coalition.

This is of course complete garbage. The Liberals, NDP and Bloc members of parliament are there because the public voted them into their occupied seats. If they have enough seats to form a coalition it means they have enough seats to control the commons, which means they'd have enough seats to successfully vote down the current government in a no-confidence vote. At the end of the day, this simply means they have more seats. Period.

The public voted and their votes are represented in parliament. The majority of the votes went to the opposition. The opposition was somewhat split and the conservatives "won" by default, not because they earned anything. A coalition government would better represent what the populace wants as it can potentially represent a greater number of voters.

I'm ever so tempted to put up a quick anti-Harper web site. Something like stepdown.ca would be a good domain too.

It's a disgrace that in the current economic climate the conservatives voted to give themselves a vacation (aka stay of execution) until late January. I might as well be literally wiping my ass with my money, since every while the conservatives occupy even a handful of seats in the parliament, we're doing it figuratively.