With Liberals like Joe, who needs Tories?

Thunder Bay MP Joe Comuzzi has been expelled from the Liberal caucus for supporting the Conservative budget introduced in the House of Commons on Monday. For those of you scoring at home, Comuzzi was supporting a budget that Liberals would have had no problems supporting until Stephane Dion told them not to. Budget 2007 has a stench porky enough to send Paul Martin on the first steamship out of town.

The falling out with the Liberals actually started well before the budget, when they were still in power and Commuzi resigned over same-sex marriage legislation. Like a number of Liberal MPs, Commuzi has doesn't grasp that as a "Liberal" MP, one has to toe the line on liberal issues like equal marriage. If Mr. Dion wants a caucus of real Liberals, the next step may be to ask Tom Wappel and his troglodyte ilk what they thought of the budget.