It's Always Fun Until Someone Loses an "Aye"

According to the all-too-frequently obsequious Jane Taber, the Ignatieff Liberals are embarking on a bold new strategy. They are going to try to 'soften' their image and modify their behaviour to appear more 'women-friendly'. (Let's see if Scott "kill him - kill him dead" Reid gets the memo.) "The Liberals are trying to find ways to bring women voters – especially baby boomers – back to the party, through recruitment, new policies and even better behaviour in the House of Commons," Taber reports in the Globe and Mail.

Scott Feschuk, writing for Maclean's, offers these suggestions for how the Liberals might accomplish their 'sensitive-new-age-party' routine.

"Ways that Liberal MPs are being more polite:

• Everyone curtsies all the time. I said everyone, Dryden.
• For first four queries each afternoon in Question Period, can only inquire of ministers how their day is going and if their family is well.
• Henceforth required to use “inside voice” to slyly suggest that all Conservatives are intolerant homophobes.
• Old Liberal approach: “Will the Prime Minister admit he’s the bloodless spawn of Satan himself?” New Liberal approach: “Will the Prime Minister please admit he’s the bloodless spawn of Satan himself?”
• Liberal MPs can ask their questions only if they brought enough for the whole government. [I love this one.]
• Instead of doing one question followed by one supplemental, members now required to do one question followed by one hug."

So remember, Liberals. When you're voting, it's always fun until somebody loses an "Aye".