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Conservative MPs: touchy little buggers, eh?

So let me get this straight:

* The (Stop) Talking Points memo really was issued from the Justice Minister’s office. Which is what Al and I wrote.

* And it was sent to all the Conservative MPs offices. Which is what we wrote.

So that leaves Conservative MPs ticked off at me, Al and the National Post because… either their assistants didn’t pass the memo along to them, or they did but the MPs didn’t bother reading it and now they look and feel dumb.

And this is my fault because?

The fact remains that years after HRC abuses began, targeting no-name Christians, and months after higher profile defendants were targeted, the PMO has remained eerily silent on one of the great controversies of our time.

And memo itself is three pages of cautious, cliched boilerplate that — while no doubt standard issue, even de rigeur, among professional politicians and bureaucrats — leaves the rest of us decidedly uninspired if not downright demoralized.

Meanwhile:

I interviewed Keith Martin again today. He said support within the Liberal caucus for his motion is “huge.”

Stephane Dion has not talked to him about it, or asked him to withdraw it. Only a couple of Liberal members raised concerns, but no one has asked him to remove the motion.

“There is enormous support within caucus and across party lines,” he said.

Ezra Levant adds:

I might have been more trusting of Bryden, had it not been for the over-the-top cheering her “report” received, in advance of publication, from Warren Kinsella.

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