Non sequitur

Mustafa is busy attempting to declare by fiat his correctness despite the Stronach epiphany, but I'd like to home in on one particular peculiar assertion:

As noted by my friend Graham Nelson, I think the events of today just show how you weren't overreacting on POI. Quite right. This switch happened because the Martin government has a good chance of being defeated on yet another confidence vote on Thursday. Getting Belinda onside is insurance for Martin.

Whoever this Graham Nelson person is, I simply don't see how Mustafa's hysterics are actually entailed by Belinda Stronach's defection. So the Martin government is going to stay in power now. Uhhh, and? Like it or not, an MP is always free to cross the floor.

What this does likely mean, however, is that Bay Street has no confidence in Harper, and prefers Liberal opportupragmatists (neologisms'r'us) to ideologues whose ideology makes it impossible to attain serious voter trust. Stronach's goal was the re-Mulronification of the Conservative Party (in the sense of returning to the economic and social programme of Mulroney as an alternative to the implementation of same by the Liberals), and it wasn't happening.