The death of the coalition I can live with. But the death of coalition analogies? That’s like, like…well, I can’t think of what that’s like, but I’m sure these pundits and politicians could:<\/p>\n
Don Newman (Monday): “The NDP are like that student who made a prom date in March and now, come May, he’s not really sure that they’re still going together.” <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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(Monday exchange on Newsworld)<\/i>
John McCallum: “We’re not identical twins.”
Suhana Meharchand: “But you could be first cousins, right?”
Thomas Mulcair: “It’s a marriage of convenience.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n
Chantal Hebert<\/span><\/a> (Monday): “But now that it has been let out of the bottle, the coalition genie will not vanish into thin air.”<\/p>\n
Chantal Hebert (same article): “To make their coalition work in the current House of Commons, the NDP and the Liberals had no choice but to force it into a parliamentary straitjacket whose straps lay in the hands of a third party.”<\/p>\n
Chantal Hebert (still the same article): “What could be a creative manifestation of the parliamentary system will become a politically forbidden fruit.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Jeffrey Simpson<\/span><\/a> (Tuesday): “Like a bad one-night stand, it was regretted almost immediately.”<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Simpson (same article): “It was, therefore, a marriage of three…”<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Simpsons (still the same article): “Since then, he has brandished the coalition weapon as though it were a wet noodle.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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