Which is it?

“They voted to send a message: they’ve had enough of an arrogant government that takes them for granted.
“They’ve had enough of a government that’s more concerned with managing the fallout from the latest scandal than with creating jobs and improving the health-care system.”
Those were the words of NDP leader Andrea Horwath in the aftermath of last Thursday’s five provincial byelections that saw the governing Liberals retain two seats while losing the other three—two to the New Democrats and one to the Progressive Conservatives.
It seems, however, that it is Ms. Horwath who is taking voters for granted. How else does one explain her comments except to believe she must think we are very forgetful—or incredibly stupid.
She is, after all, the leader of the party that propped up the minority Liberal government of recently-minted Premier Kathleen Wynne by supporting its budget in early June (citing, among other things, that voters didn’t want a costly election).
Yet less than two months later, Ms. Horwath suddenly is crowing that thousands of voters have spoken and they want a change at Queen’s Park.
The NDP clearly wants to have their cake and eat it, too: taking credit for making the minority government work in one breath, then slamming that same government as “arrogant” in the next.
Well, which is it? And will it change again in another two months’ times?
This is precisely the kind of blatant hypocrisy that voters are fed up with—and why so many are tuning out because they’re tired of being played the fool.