Apolitical Staples

It is all by-election all the time....
Check out the column from L. Ian MacDonald.

...it wasn't Coulon's foreign-policy views that made headlines yesterday, but Dion's slashing attack on Stephen Harper for "misleading" the House before the May 2006 vote extending the mission in Kandahar to February 2009. Moreover, Dion said the 24 Liberal MPs who supported the motion were wrong to have done so. "They believed the government," Dion explained.
In other words, not only were they wrong, they were duped.
This is a major unforced error on Dion's part. Among the 24 Liberal members who supported the motion were Bill Graham, the party's interim leader and former defence minister at the time of the deployment to Kandahar, and Michael Ignatieff, now deputy Liberal leader and lead voice on Afghanistan.
Hey, let's get Iggy on the phone and ask him if he was not only wrong, but stupid. As for Graham, don't get him started on that vote. When a Tory member crossed the floor to thank him for his support, Graham gestured behind him and said: "Some of those guys actually voted for this in cabinet."