I cannot choose my coworkers...

And neither could Stephen Harper when the polls closed back in 2008. The parliament that was elected in 08 was the group he was given to work with. Many Conservatives joined him, but not so many that he didn't need a little help from the other parties to get anything accomplished. Ergo, cooperation had to happen.

What about you? What about in your job? Can you choose your coworkers and decide to write them off whenever it suits you? Can you declare in your workplace that some things are nonnegotiable and expect them to fold like paper airplanes?

If you're mad about the election I want you to think about who you should be mad at. The Prime Minister who said the budget - the very same budget that NEEDED 1 other party to accept it - was "nonnegotiable"? Or the Liberal leader that gave his suggestions on what should be in the budget for their party to support it?

Should you be mad at the Harper Government who refused to tell their coworkers the price of prisons and airplanes that they wanted to buy? Or the Liberal leader for asking what the cost of those planes and prisons are before supporting those initiatives?

Should you be mad at the Conservative party that overspent election money and is being taken to court over electoral fraud? Or the Liberal leader who won't put up with crooks?

I wish so dearly that I could sit in a room with 3 of my coworkers and demand that things to "my way or the highway" and have everybody do what I want all the time.

But that's not the way the real world works.

And if it doesn't work like that at your office why should we put up with anything less than that in our government?