Desperate Housemates

Prime Time Paulie takes to the airwaves tonight, to try and buy some time for his increasing wobbly government. The continuing saga of the Gomery inquiry which is fast approaching some common ground with the Soprano's has PM the PM wondering how to stem the flood of would be voters away from his Liberal agenda.

The Liberals weary of the never ending attack from the opposition as each new revelation is broadcast on Newsworld and Newsnet must be wondering why that nice Justice didn't keep his publication ban in effect until he puts pen to paper with a final report. The damage of the daily explanation of what appears to be a rather well designed little numbers racket, is causing no amount of distress in Liberal ridings from coast to coast to coast.

In fact Alfonso Gagliano, who more or less got the whole ball rolling down the hill a number of months ago has been quoted as fearing for his country with all the dirt that has been shoveled via Gomery. Too bad nobody in the Liberal party didn't think of that while they were shuffling brown envelopes around finer restaurants in the Greater Montreal area.

Word on the Hill is that finding a sword carrier in Quebec for the Liberal brand is getting harder and harder, as many would be troughers appear nervous to be lumped in with the practices of the past regimes. You know you're in terrible trouble, when you can't find candidates in what once was a guaranteed invitation to a life of leisure. One might also say the end is nigh when politicians or would be politicians develop a sense of right and wrong!

The six minute fireside chat tonight has been portrayed as a Prime Minister reaching out to Canadians to be patient, as the Gomery festival wraps up it's deliberations. However, he runs a terrible risk of appearing to be simply trying to paint his party in the best light under rather dark circumstances. Requests for television time are generally reserved for times of National crisis not party meltdown, there may be a backlash for the Liberals for the appearance of crisis. Not to be outflanked Studios Steven Harper has requested his own shot at prime time, Gilles Duceppe too has asked for a block of time on behalf of the Bloq and no doubt Smilin' Jack Layton will want to be able to wave his hands in prime time as well.

If each were to receive equal time the Canadian networks could turn this into a half hour series, our only question then would be is it a drama, reality show or a sit com. Survivor? Canadian Distained or Fantasy Island; we'll have a better idea after 7 pm eastern 4 o'clock on the far west coast!