coronation complete

john manley is quitting the federal liberal leadership race. wow! he held out so long but i guess the practicalities of presenting policy alternatives to the martin team and ensuring a race become too difficult when no one is willing to cough up cash for a certain loser. in some ways i hope sheila sticks it out, only because i think her policies have merit and because she presents a challenge to the centre-right vision that martin proclaims. it shouldn't be an assumption that modern liberals are historical classical liberals. on the other hand, it would be interesting to see the power dynamics if she quits and jean is forced to deal with an official "leader-in-waiting" as opposed to just a likely one.

in other news, the flippin' paper is finished. i didn't sleep last night but i think the paper is better for it. it's not everything i wanted it to be but i do think i captured some of the massive scope the paper potentially had

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