If offering a Cabinet position in exchange for crossing the floor is worthy of all of this hullabaloo, how exactly did Belinda Stronach join the Liberals and wind up in Cabinet right away? I know there aren’t any tapes out there but I find it extremely far fetched that the topic of a Cabinet position never came up during her evening chit-chat with Paul at 24 Sussex. I mean, did he just tap her on the way to the press conference and say:

“Oh, by the way Belinda. I know we never talked about this, but you’re going into Cabinet. I know it’s a very complex file, but I’m sure you’ll have no problem with it.”

The best defense came from Scott Reid with his “What are we? Morons?” line. Now, I’m not advocating they use that line a lot since it’s not exactly a rhetorical question but it just seems to me that a conversation like this must always happen with an MP crossing the floor. That’s not to say the RCMP shouldn’t investigate or that Ujjal and Murphy didn’t cross any lines – this whole affair is unsavoury, to put it mildly.

But how come everyone dwells on what may have been an offer of a Cabinet position to one Tory, when there was a firm offer to Belinda that was accepted?