April Fools, How fitting

April 1 has a special meaning for federal Liberals with a B.C. toehold. It was April 1, 2005 when Supremo Patrick Dohm said he'd decide whether to open the Basi & Virk search warrants. Breathless tension!

Then Paul Martin rolled into town with a lah te dah, look at me, ma, do I look worried? And to dazzle us utterly, he announced his personal choices for Liberal candidates in Vancouver ridings: the illustrious David Emerson, the multi-hued Ujjal Dosanjh, and somebody named Chan.

Yep, April 1, 2005. And the Search Warrants? Still 80% closed, right?

I think that was 2004

Now here's something else the NDP and Liberals have in common: useless regional conferences where the grassroots are told their opinions. Either way, the conferences are for losers who have no life -- not the real movers and shakers who, you know, are actually instrumental in getting the candidates elected.

Policy Conferences should be more aptly named "Posturing Conferences", with people harrumphing here and harrumphing there, wordsmithing propositions until the wee hours of the morning as if they really meant something, and for what? So delegates can dip into the same cheeseball as the elite or the vanguard of the masses (depending on your party affiliation). "See? We just dipped into the same cheeseball, so I'm just like you. Now get your ass back to your district and do what you're told. And don't forget to tell everyone how concerned and caring we are."