Angry in the Great White North

Today Bob Rae attempted to address rumours regarding his role in the Liberal-dominated Senate delaying and amending a crime bill that Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff supported, something that is causing Michael Ignatieff no end of embarrassment:

Liberal MP Bob Rae is denying that he orchestrated a move by a group of Liberal senators to amend a crime bill in an effort to undermine Michael Ignatieff's leadership.

Some of the senators who proposed the amendments voted for Rae during his leadership bid, which led to speculation that Rae urged them to stall the bill.

Rae told CTV's Question Period on Sunday that allegations he supported the senators' amendments were "nonsensical."

So is Bob Rae undermining the leadership of Michael Ignatieff?

"Michael and I have a very good relationship. We talk regularly, we talk on the phone all the time, we're sitting next to each other in the House of Commons. We've known each other forty years and we know what we have to do."

Yes, well, I could get most of that from Wikipedia.  What Bob Rae forgets to explicitly mention is that:

1. Bob Rae supports the leadership of Michael Ignatieff and that he will continue to do so
2. Bob Rae follows the lead of Michael Ignatieff and that he will continue to do so

Maybe I'm quibbling, but really, Bob Rae needs to be clear on this.