Hmmm...Taft Resigns

I'm not entirely sure that Taft's resignation really addresses what happened in the last provincial election for the Alberta Liberals.

When the bigger issue facing Alberta's politicians is apathy on the part of the voter, and an environment where the governing party has been in power so long that it will likely take nothing less than a revolution to unseat.

The only thing I am critical of Taft for is not hammering the Tories at every turn with the material out of his books "Shredding The Public Interest" and "Democracy Derailed" As far as I can tell, the only way that the Alberta voter will consider an alternative is to see up close and personal what kind of ugly sense of entitlement thirty years in power creates in a political party.

In failing to hold the PC's accountable for their actions (or inaction as the case may be), Taft made it too easy for Stelmach to create the impression that the party has changed. (More recent events such as their self-awarded pay raise calls that into question, to be sure)