I may not have been clear in the post itself: I’m not attacking you for your support of a party (and in fact I’m glad you display your affiliations up front; I had intended to note that but left it out at the last minute). The point I was making was that partisanship often leads to blinding onesself from the issue by falling on party lines: this is the same thing you accuse DeSmog of, and your own argument pretty much falls victim to it too.

After having looked up far more responses on this, it seems that the NDP definitely is in the wrong here — they’re obviously using carbon pricing as political capital (note, for instance, their reversal from the 2007 BC NDP provincial party convention, which they’ve since tried to cover up). This is exactly the same trick the Liberals have traditionally used: Campaign on one issue and then do dick all about it.

If one’s goal is to get the fucking carbon out of the atmosphere, then the BC NDP are not the party to vote for. Defending a Liberal policy is not the same as saying “vote Liberal” — if anything, it means “vote for someone not trying to scrap the policy”. Subtle, but significant, difference. The NDP can still win votes, but it would involve a platform reversal in the middle of a campaign.

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I’ll consider joining Progressive Bloggers once I actually have more written that’s worth sharing. Thanks for the pointer.

Otherwise, great response, you should consider joining the Progressive Bloggers blogroll which helps pick up a few like-minded readers.