Rumble in Ottawa

It looks like a rumble is shaping up between Harper et al. and the parliamentary press gallery. It all has to do with the new government limiting the media's access to them. The government says they are doing no such thing, the press gallery says they are. I don't know all of the ins and outs, being neither a member of the press gallery nor the government, hell I'm not even anywhere near Ottawa. But to me it all boils down to one thing: Lil' Beady Eyes and his Conservative-Reform Alliance Party (CRAP (No, I haven't given up on that)) know that their agenda is unpalatable to the majority of Canadians. They also know that as a minority government they won't have too long in power. (A minority government in Canada lasts about 2 years, on average.) So the only chance they have of being elected as a majority is if they can govern well and moderately in what little time they have, but more importantly if they can tightly control their image so as to appear to be something other than what they actually are, which is right-wing yahoos. The PM's office knows that by letting MP Jim Bob from Futtbuck, Alberta talk about god, guns and abortion, their days in power are numbered, but if they can pass themselves off as being more PC than Reform, they may have a chance. Here's me hoping Jim Bob speaks up.