The budget - including the offshore money - is a government bill.
The Connies are in Opposition and up until now were hell bent on killing the government.
Normally, Government members say positive things about the budget; Opposition guys say nothing unless it is critical.
Until they got the living hell whipped out of them in recent weeks, Norm Doyle and Loyola Hearn were opposed to the budget.
Notice lately that every day at least one of the Connie dinosaurs are quoted in the media assuring everyone that the deal is almost through the House? Here's Norm Doyle's contribution for today.
Apparently no one except me noticed that for all his blarney, Blarney the Green Dinosaur from Renews - the guy who notionally represents a St. John's/Mount Pearl - actually promised to work all summer if need be to ensure the government's budget gets passed.
That is unprecedented. An Opposition hack pledges to back the government to the hilt on its budget. Geez, Hearn had no trouble voting against money for the province last year. Why the switch, Loyola?
Next thing you know Hearn and Doyle will claim credit for a deal they actually had nothing to do with at all. No wait. They've done that already. Repeatedly.
Who gives them political strategy or handles their media relations?
I always wondered what happened to Tommy Flanagan.
"Yeah.....that's the ticket."