hung by his own petard

He brought up the issue of leadership and painted Dion as ncompetent and dangerous.
Now we see harper reveal his vindictive, devious sryle of leadership.
We do not need this attitde in times of crisis, we have to work together like rational adults, not bitter neocon muthpiece ideologues.

OTTAWA — Stephen Harper's willingness to play high-stakes political chicken suggests a leader supremely confident in his ability to make opponents cry uncle.

But behind closed doors at a party caucus meeting Wednesday, the Prime Minister who makes a virtue out of never blinking was talking about his potential future on the other side of the House of Commons.

“He was envisioning life in opposition,” a Tory official told The Globe and Mail on Thursday.

“You know, he was saying things like they would be an illegitimate government and that we would do everything in our power to prevent them implementing their agenda.”
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Implicitly, the official said, Mr. Harper was acknowledging a major blunder, and with it, a blow to his vaunted reputation as a grand political tactician.

“Certainly, people are less willing to defer to his strategic brilliance,” the official said. “This was a big whopper and it was his whopper. It wasn't anybody else's.”

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