Good advice

Rex Murphy is one of those joys in journalism. A man who can think and write. And on the CBC he is a commentator who is the only reason not to sneer at that government-owned agit-prop machine.

His take on the current government crisis is brilliant.:

Ottawa today is all politics and no government, all partisanship and no purpose. The current spectacle is dissolving respect for parliaments and politics and going some way to dissolving respect for the country both are supposed to serve. Democracy is not a series of one-day deals cut for a spike in the polls or an evening newscast. Mr. Martin can short circuit all of this. His government is now nothing more than improvisation and an hourly calculation. He should resign. We should vote, and Gomery must continue.

Read it all. Archives of his CBC pieces can be found here.