the ignatieff era

… really are at least slightly exaggerated, as noted by Colleague Wherry earlier today. I’ve been alternately amused and bemused by the manic glee with which the media – including several of my colleagues – have been nearly been crushed in the journalistic stampede to declare it dead, dead, dead – deader than a dodo that met the wrong end of a doornail – on a daily, even hourly basis. Which may or may not eventually be the case, but at the moment, it just isn’t, no matter how many conveniently nameless Liberal MPs and “sources close to Ignatieff” may be deployed to argue the contrary.