Dr. Clifford Albert has bowed out of the race for leadership of the PC party, and joined the Bachand Campaign. Bachand has only been in the race for 4 days now, and he's beginning to attract a lot of support. Of course, he is the only Quebec-based candidate, and the Parti Quebecois is talking about calling a snap election. That may draw members of his campaign team away to involve themselves with provincial politics for a month or two.

And a Liberal MP called the Yanks "bastards" yesterday. Not that I disagree entirely, but it wasn't the best judgement on her part. Of course the Alliance is all over her, but the Alliance is always looking for new reasons to be mad.

Whether it was in response to Carolyn Parrish's "bastard" comment or not, GW Bush has decided to prove that he is in fact a bastard, by announcing that disarming isn't enough anymore for Iraq to avoid being annihilated. Saddam Hussein also has to quit. Of course Bush uses the sanitary term "regime change". What a bastard.