The reviews are in

It's a shame that we won't have a new federal government to show for the events of the last couple of weeks. But on the bright side, the massive amount of writing about the showdown over the Cons' fiscal update fiasco and parliamentary lockdown should provide us with loads of material for future use in defining Harper and his government - that is, as long as we highlight the best of the choice quotes and keep them in circulation.

I'll suggest that those more technically inclined look at putting together a sidebar piece featuring a "Harper Review of the Day" to better share the material. But I'll do my bit for now by highlighting a few of the reviews we'll want to emphasize - starting with this from Paul Wells:

I hope I have made it clear since the summer that I have come to believe Stephen Harper is turning into a really bad prime minister. He is incoherent, vicious and unserious. His fall update was idiocy on stilts, and when he sent his transport minister out two days later to disown the work of his finance minister, nobody in the country blinked because nobody in the country takes what this government does as a government seriously.