What? More cahoots going on?

Better get on that, Pat.    After all,

"There's a rumour that's gaining traction, the Bloc have struck a deal with Stephen Harper," NDP MP Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, Man.) told The Hill Times. "They'll be their dancing partner until 2012."

Well, if rumours are to be treated like fact, then there will be some partner swapping and cutting in going on.

(McVety) has accused the federal Conservatives of helping to fast-track an NDP bill that would extend human-rights protection to people who identify themselves as belonging to the sex they were not assigned by biology. 

The most surprising aspect of private member’s Bill C-398, Mr. McVety said, is the apparent willingness of the Conservatives, who fought against same-sex marriage as recently as 2006, to allow it to pass unimpeded through the House of Commons...“They rushed it through. I can’t divulge the person, but we have word from someone in the government who said there was a deal made with the NDP,” Mr. McVety said.

I think we need a Bill banning cahooting.  And a glossary of terms to explain to readers the difference between rumour and fact.  And politicians who don't toss both around as though they are interchangeable.  And a pony.  And a flying pig...

If both rumours are true and both the pot and kettle have been in cahoots with the Master Strategist, it's understandable that especially in a minority government deals have to be made or few Bills will pass.  These deals should be done in the open however, so we can know if our elected reps are acting responsibly on our behalf or just whoring themselves off by selling off on professed party stances for the political gain of their party.

Besides, if I suddenly had a lobotomy and was going to cahoot with the CONs, I'd want witnesses.  Lots and lots of witnesses.  And a contract signed in blood.  With the most horrifying of curses attached should the contract be violated.  And titanium body armor, extra thick in the back.