good news?

colby cosh points out today that the numbers (polling, that is) can only get better for the conservatives in ontario. it seems the main reason those polled were leery of supporting the conservatives was the lack of desire for an election right now. the main reason people were leery of supporting the liberals was the fact of it being time for a change in ottawa. cosh goes on to reason out that, since an election is no longer imminent, the conservatives' fortune will climb, and since more damning testimony is coming out from gomery (is anyone listening? hello?) every day, support for the martin ("come hell or high water") liberals will fall and fall as more and more people come to realise that they don't have to support organised corruption. there's a glimmer of hope yet.

this brings me to something that's been stewing in my mind for quite a while now. everyone in the liberal party keeps bleating "wait for the gomery report; all testimony right now is merely allegation." well, pardon me, but first off, this is sworn testimony. so if it's later proven to be false, these guys could go to jail for perjury. second off, some of them have upcoming criminal trials, so anything they say in gomery would have to be pretty much exactly the same things they say in the criminal trials, and what they're saying (admitting to) is criminality. third, think about this: if i'm charged with a crime and go into court saying "yes, your honour, i committed that crime and this is how i did it," does that not bypass the need for a trial? am i not automatically guilty? so wouldn't this be the same? you don't go into a hearing and admit to having done something wrong and get disbelieved, unless what you're admitting to having done isn't as bad as what you really did. and maybe that scares me the most--they're admitting to payoffs in restaurants, kickbacks, and payment for no work done. what aren't they admitting?