Open Mouth, Insert Foot

Local MP Diane Finley was criticized in the House of Commons for what at least one Liberal apparently felt was gratuitous use of limousines.

Said Liberal, it would seem, was unaware that Mrs. Finley suffers from a rare disease that, at present, makes her an unsafe driver. Mrs. Finley refused to use her condition as a reason in the House. Perhaps she wanted to spare the Liberal some embarrassment. Perhaps she just wand to maintain some sense of dignity in the midst of what is doubtless a humbling set of circumstances.

Mrs. Finley was simply being responsible to the other drivers on the road.

In politics, as in so much else, no good deed goes unpunished.

This is no way for the Liberals to improve their sagging fortunes.