Can the Conservatives get any more desperate?

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a Conservative MP actually made a tape of a conversation he had with the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff.

Pathetic.

PM's COS:So but for all we’re saying in advance of, that I mean, explicit discussions about senate, not senate, I don’t think are very helpful.

Grewal:M-hmm

PM's COS:Um, um, and, and I don’t think, frankly, can be had in advance of an abstention tomorrow. Then we’ll have much more detailed and finely hued discussions after that with some freedom. And I think, I think what that allows is negotiating room for you. Either direction I mean, you can easily say, look, yeah, you know, if you don’t like, you can stay home, stay back with – where you are or if you do like, we can make an arrangement that allows you to move.

Grewal:Okay

PM's COS:Um, If that - Now, look I don’t expect to you react to that right now. You can think about it. Uh, Please talk to Ujjal, Ujjal knows this is the discussion I am having with you. Please feel free and say you know whatever you, you know – ah he knows. And then uh, if that proposal is of some interest to you, then um then I will talk to Volpe and get something happening.

Now Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh says that Grewal came to him, possibly hoping to entrap the Liberals. So all I ask is to read that over again with Grewal saying "So, can you guys make my wife and I senators?" Or words to the effect before the recording starts.

In any event I'd perfer to hear the whole recording before I passed judgement, of course the Conservatives wouldn't. They enjoy only hearing parts of things they like and ignoring the rest.... Hmmmm why does that sound farmilliar?

Sounds to me like he's just willing to sit down with an opposition MP and hammer out an agreement to get him on side. Notice how he's not offering him anything? Notice how the mention of the Senate is right at the beginning of the transcript so we don't know in what context it was being said? And even then the only mention of Senate in the tape is met with a negative reaction?

Sad thing is this garbage will probably fool people.