You should be kidding to say that cong showed spine ! Had cong have some spine it should have showed it by going ahead with the deal 6 months back. Now they know that nothing is going to happen even if left widraws the support as its only 6 months left for the elections and even if it becomes a minority govt PM will coninue as a care taker. So this show of spine and all those exaggerated statements are out of place. Also undersytand a fact that N deal had nothing to do with cong - left seperation. Even when they formed the govt together in 2004 they knew that they cannt approach 09 elections as allies in WB and Ker. So this is just an exit plan worked out in between them. Had it not been N deal left would have taken up inflation or some other matter for convenience to pull out. Manmohan can be the PM for another 6 months as in anycase NDA is going to be in power come Apr-May 09.
