Chretien sabotaging Martin, the Liberals and Canada. Same old, same old.

I have this recurring image of Jean Chretien sitting back, rolling in the big bucks as a lawyer to top up his $153,641 parliamentary pension, and laughing at the stupid Canadian electorate who elected him with three successive majorities. In particular, he gets the biggest laugh from how how he continues to make Paul Martin's life miserable.

As Barbara Yaffee pointed out in a column printed in today's National Post, the sponsorship scandal was Chretien's creation which he spawned, nurtured and defended to the end, never acknowledging a scintilla of responsibility for any wrongdoing.

What's more, he is refused to distance his successor from the program, despite the fact that it would be in the Liberal party's direct interest to do so. Martin has stated he was out of the sponsorship loop; why won't Chretien back him up?

If anything, Chretien -- through his cynical testimony before the Gomery inquiry and his court challenge of the presiding judge -- has boosted public ire toward the Grits

Looks like Chretien is up to his old tricks. One can only hope that Gomery finds the evidence to stick it to him.