Just when I think Paul Martin couldn't get any lower...

It's as if the man can't bow out with any class at all...

' "I did not envisage being the Prime Minister where one of the prime issues that one had to deal with was the whole question of sponsorship," Mr. Martin told reporters, before joking, "So I didn't go to bed at night dreaming about that." '(link)

Lo' and behold Paul Martin is ringing the "I knew nothing about the sponsorship scandal" tune... Ironic, that on the very same day I read about these comments, that we find out that Paul Martin's government came to agreement with controversial former President of the Canadian Mint David Dingwall (who was notorious for having charged huge office expenses including stuff like $1.29 gum) on his "severance" package 3 days before the election...

'NDP MP Pat Martin told CTV News from the Manitoba NDP's convention in Winnipeg: "Dingwall's laughing at us as we speak. If the Canadian public needed any confirmation they did the right thing in throwing the Liberals out on Jan. 23, this is the confirmation right here."
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'The arbitrator, George Adams, ruled Dingwall's resignation last fall was involuntary and therefore the government has a legal obligation to pay him. The Liberal government had maintained that Dingwall had resigned.
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'"This just compounds the whole sordid Dingwall mess, that the Liberal government knew on January 20 the arbitrator's final result and they wouldn't tell the Canadian public until after the election was safely over," Martin said.(link)

Involuntary?... Involuntary?... I guess that whole "resigned" thing was said by some other evil Paul Martin double from an evil Liberal Party masquerating as the real thing?...

'"After months of evasive answers in the House of Commons, we have now learned that David Dingwall's departure from the Royal Canadian Mint was involuntary," Harper said in a news release.

'"This is contrary to the information given by the Liberal government. I am very disappointed that Parliament was misled on this matter."

'Conservative MP Jason Kenney went further, telling CTV: "They lied to Canadians about the fact that he was fired and didn't resign. It's very strange. They just didn't tell the truth."

So my question is, when Paul Martin says that he knew nothing about the sponsorship issue before coming to power, is that the evil Paul Martin double speaking, or the real Paul Martin? If Paul Martin wasn't politically dead after Jan 23, he sure is now... Is it possible for someone to be deader politically? Maybe King Paul has just proven it.