Travers Is Only One Of Many Who Have Contracted This Virus

The Toronto Star's James Travers again flirts with unreadability, which is unfortunate, since the column is just a bog-standard jab at the Conservative paranoia machine. "Core Conservatives [are] comfortable in their suspension of disbelief," he argues. "They are convinced," for example, "that independent watchdogs are happiest when biting the hand that feeds them bark loudest at these ruling strangers." We have no idea what that means. And it all begins with an attack on Gordon O'Connor for his handling of the online tax return filing fiasco that reads as if the first three paragraphs are missing. What, exactly, was wrong with extending the filing deadline but not the payment deadline? Travers offers us no clue.