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It is raining money. Go outside without an umbrella and you’ll get largesse all over.

Vincent Marissal, who has always struck me as an eternally cynical fellow, today shows why politics, especially of the type we’ve seen over the last week, is an inherently cynicism-inducing practice. He notes how Stephen Harper’s has often depended on the Bloc Québécois’ support to pass crucial legislation, and whose very tenure as prime minister has been thanks largely to the very separatists he now decries. “Mr. Harper says Bloc MPs have the right to sit in the House of Commons, but must be isolated because they are counter to the ‘real’ interests of Canada,” Marrisal writes. “Coming from a prime minister who has survived his first throne speech in 2006 and a budget in 2007, this is frankly dishonest.” (DMA would also like to point out that the Conservatives bragged very loudly about the Bloc’s support of its measures, back when it was politically expedient to do so.) On the other side of the bench, Marrisal rains on Bob Rae who, for the sake of wanting to lead the Liberal party, endorsed a coalition led by Stéphane Dion. “[Rae] has held onto his dream of leading the party, and doesn’t have the grace to cede his spot to caucus favourite Michael Ignatieff.”

The Daily Telegraph has a long interview with Stephen Colbert — mostly speaking as himself, not the character he plays at 11:30 —  “The Second Most Powerful Idiot In America.” I found this part interesting, explaining how the show sets up its interviews: