Grassroots Liberals Endorse Carbon Tax

It was brought up by some Liberal Establishment Elitist Bigwigs.

Carbon tax.  The unpopular tax on everything that helped guarantee last election's Liberal defeat.  (ht: NNW)

"You’re going to monetize carbon one way or another," said former Westcoast Energy CEO Michael Phelps.

Liberals across the country — who were watching and listening online, in 53 town hall sessions and in their own basements — chimed in with support for the idea through Twitter and the chat feed on the Liberal conference website.

Scary.  Grassroots Liberals are clearly extremists.

When Phelps praised a carbon tax, stephen f gordon, a university economist from Quebec City, tweeted: "Phelps is my hero. (...)"

OMG...  These people don't understand what they're talking about.  There's clearly something not-right in their heads!

This presents a problem for Michael Ignatieff.  He doesn't want to "go there", he says, by running on the carbon tax platform in the next election.

But grassroots Liberals want him to.

What a fix.  What to do, now?  Be a dictator like Chretien, or abandon his principles and intellect... yet again, like some... common politician?

Poor Iggy.  Probably didn't think it'd be so hard to be Liberal "leader".

I wonder when his second thoughts about the Liberal Party and its membership will come, if they haven't already?  I mean, surely a guy like Egghead Iggy can see how lazy-minded those Liberal members tend to be.  Does he want to have to babysit them?