Really?!?

I'm not going to comment on the cabinet appointments made today. Generally speaking, I don't care about the 'who', I care about what they do. This also applies to scandals involving politicians' personal lives. It's none of my business, frankly.

However, when I heard that Harper had appointed three defeated candidates from the last election to the Senate, the cognitive dissonance nearly knocked me over. I can forgive crony appointments; it's a dirty part of the game, but it's part of the game. But for someone who has historically, repeatedly, called for an elected Senate, to appoint people who faced the electorate AND LOST is a display of such mind-blowing hypocrisy that I still can't believe it's true.