Buddies

Kathy Dunderdale, designated attack poodle on the file (in Paul Oram's absence, perhaps?), offered up an interesting excuse as to why Danny Williams sacrificed his formerly sacrosanct belief in accountability, and transparency, and all that rot, in his eagerness to get a pre-election Hebron "deal".

On Thursday's Here and Now, she said that the companies insisted on it.

They "felt strongly" about it.

So Danny was willing to sacrifice one of his supposedly inviolable principles of government up to his adversaries across the bargaining table.

Danny, to use a familiar phrase, has become a Big Buddy to Big Oil.

Obviously, Big Oil has some influence on St. John's.

Right?