To point out a few things:

On October 20th Conservative MP John Reynolds accused Deputy PM Anne McLellan of interfering in a $200M defense contract in her riding.

On October 26th SPAR loses the contract. A sad thing for Edmonton, a sad day for SPAR, but thankfully for Anne McLellan, the end of Conservative pot shots over the contract, no?

-Ken Beleshko, an aviation and aerospace consultant, says he doubts politics played a role in who got the six-year maintenance contract.
"We have the number two person in the federal cabinet, really, here in Edmonton, where Spar's located," Beleshko said, referring to Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan. "IMP, which is the other contender of the three, is located in Nova Scotia, and they, in fact, are in the backyard of Scott Bryson, who's the minister of the department who let the contract.
"So it's pretty hard to suggest there's been some political end run done, especially in B.C., where we don't really see any federal heavy weights there."

Apparently not.

So the Conservatives start the week by calling McLellan on interfering in the SPAR bid, and then they attack her for not being involved in the SPAR bid.

This leads me to 3 possible conclusions:

1. John Reynolds hadn't consulted with Laurie Hawn, meaning one or both are out of the loop

2. Laurie Hawn was too much the partisan to 'get involved' until Annie's political future had been damaged, but after that he was glad to put the short sword to a retreating Reynolds.

3. They're hypocrites.

Condaleeza Rice said of the American committment to NAFTA:

"Our word is as good as gold"

From Wikipedia:

"...on August 15, 1971, without consulting members of the international monetary system or his own State Department, Nixon unilaterally imposed 90-day wage and price controls, a 10% import surcharge, and most importantly "closed(ing) the gold window," making the dollar inconvertible to gold directly, except on the open market."

So when Condi says, "Our word is as good as gold." She means, our word is an abstract commodity whose worth is mainly determined by its rarity, and the abstract value that investors seem to place upon it.

But that's just my definition.

Bob Bradley: Still Freakin' Annoying.

Also he doesn't exist. It's like he's a BNL lyric or something.