When we tossed them into the deep end we should have asked if they knew how to swim

I know. I couldn't resist.

Reading this post by Ted, where he illuminates some of the more obvious details of Conservative bumbling:

• Minister of Defence Gordon O'Connor and Safety Minister Stockwell Day can't keep track of their agreements or their detainees...
• Heritage Minister Bev Oda can't keep track of her donations from a cancelled fundraiser or her requests for sponsorship friends or her limo costs...
• Minister of Public Works Michael Fortier and Minister of *cough* Multiculturalism Jason Kenney can't keep track of their partisan polling with taxpayer money...
• Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn can't keep track of his travel costs...
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper can't keep track of the political loans and donations he received (or at least refuses to declare them)...
• Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter McKay can't keep track of his foul mouth...
• Minister of the Environment John Baird can't keep track of the number of "new" Conservative environmental plans or the number of its critics...
• Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty can't keep track of his spending...

And this post by Impolitical which simply highlights the amateur performance of the Harperites:

Well, we learn a lot from this little incident. Number one, public betrayals of their anti-media paranoia doesn't look good on these clowns at all. Number two, patronizing lecturing to constituents about the media does not endear you to your constituents. They might go to the Canadian Press. Number three, the assistant's email is a revelation of how Conservative insiders are really viewing the Afghan detainee issue...as an ongoing journalistically-driven nuisance. Rather than as a pressing need to ensure Canada is meeting its international obligations in Afghanistan. I wonder if Buckler can handle all these constitutent emails herself...:)

Just left me thinking that Jim Davis' character Odie is to Garfield what the Conservatives are to government.

Except that Odie is a whole lot more likeable. And he's probably house-broken.