yabut, the waldo just referenced what they (Conservatives), as you say, 'did say' - and you don't get to negate that by proclaiming referencing those comments is "off-base"... even as you get your presumed licks in with your first sentences. Now if you have relevant statements from those, as you say, nine Liberal PMs, have at er, hey!
Talk is cheap waldo, it doesn't matter what those Liberals said or did not say. they ignored the issue as well.