So will end Paul Martin’s career and with it Canada’s most enduring national media myth

But other parties pay tender tribute to failed leaders as noble warriors--the New Democrats' Tommy Douglas, or Conservatives' Bob Stanfield. Not Liberals.

With every turn of events, the screw tightens. The Liberal Party, wrote The Victoria Times Colonist, is "sordid," "rotten," "corrupt" and "venal," a party so craven that "its Parliamentary practitioners have used every procedural tool imaginable to cling to office."

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