alternate universes

Colleague Wherry has the details, such as they are — basically, blah blah productive blah blah meeting again tomorrow. Thank goodness ITQ didn’t spend the last three hours hanging around the Hot Room for that. While we wait for the inevitably anti-climatic conclusion, let’s play a game, shall we? Let’s imagine that, rather than Harper and Ignatieff facing off over a stack of spreadsheets on a coffee table, it was Harper and — Bob Rae! Would the last week and a half have gone any differently? Would we be in the same place now? Discuss.  (Feel free to substitute any other leadership candidate, or noteworthy non-candidate, for Rae.)