“I get so sick of the Libs carrying on about Labor’s mismanagement and how great Costello was blah blah, I just about puke!”

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Love this quote from Ross Gittins:

“Peter Costello may yet make an excellent prime minister, but he couldn’t hold down a job as a teacher of high school economics. Ask him how fiscal policy works and he confidently gives you the wrong answer.”

The Age, 14 May 2005

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Ross-Gittins/Will-Costellos-budget-force-Reserves-hand/2005/05/13/1115843370320.html

If you are not right now, then failure to reduce CO2 dramatically in the next few years will make you right by 2020. By that time climate change will have become naturally reinforced with a whole lot of feedback mechanisms, making huma action thoroughly pointless. Clathrates in the ocean and tundra have the capacity to dwarf our greenhouse emissions. So, as Peter says, you had better get moving on the climate or the rapture, because you are going to need one of them.

It may well be so unless another myth, that invisible superior being, who is in control of all there is, intervenes to save us all from ourselves………..no doubt some people believe this nonsense.

It might retrospectively be viewed as the best thing for 2 party democracy in this country at some future time.

It might even spell the beginning of the end of our leftist 4th estate and that would be the best possible thing for individual liberty and democracy.

I pray the pain begins without bipartisanship as a Canutian Copenhagen World Government will not alter climate change, whatever its cause, one jot.

The irony is that Turnbull actually fervently believes the IPCC whilst the Krudd believes that he can use the IPCC and with the help of Bernard Keane et al…….so indeed he can.

If Obama can take his party with him, and the Dems hold filibuster proof majorities in both houses, there will be in effect a new world order with powers to act against recalcitrant states.

Perhaps the Krudd can become the first puppet head of this new international regulatory agency?

Then at least we’d get Julia………

It was about the time of the Malcolm Turnbull “debt truck”! July 10 2009

“Before a desperate Malcolm Turnbull starts driving his new LIberal Party debt truck, he should own up about the last one.
When John Howard launched it while campaigning for election in 1996, he said nothing better symbolised the failure of Labor’s economic management than the fact that Australia “owed the rest of the world $180 billion” in net foreign debt. When the Liberals lost office in 2007, Australia “owed the world” $550 billion. In 1996, the total national debt was $700 billion. By 2007 it had grown to $3.2 trillion. The Liberal Party’s real record on debt is appalling”.

I get so sick of the Libs carrying on about Labor’s mismanagement and how great Costello was blah blah, I just about puke! And what did we get for it? Zilch! Infrastructure neglected, health, education etc - all suffered under Howard! At least the Labor govt is trying to make up for this obscene neglect!
One of the aspects of this neglect that I’ve only heard reference to on one occasion, is the state of many bridges around the country. Some have been standing for up to 100 yrs or more? and there are many that will need strengthening if not replacing altogether. Local govt can’t afford the huge cost of this, it should be a national responsiblity - like some major highways (but not of course the Princes Highway???)

I wish Rudd would pull on a DD. He has up to some date next August, which would negate the rubbish about the electorate not liking early polls etc. It would only be a couple of months early, or perhaps earlier. I’d hope to get rid of Fielding and some conservatives?

Could it be that Kevin Rudd doesn’t ask himself ‘How I should plan to my maximize my power?” but rather, “How may I best harm the Opposition, in order to maximize my power?” There is a lot of difference between the two mind-sets.

The Coalition will call this the unnecessary election, the electorate may well feel that Rudd is kicking his opponents when they’re down, thereby making the Coalition the underdog, the rural constituencies hate the very idea of an ETS, which be magnified by the hothouse of an election campaign, where moderation gets run over by rhetoric and the thought of the greens having the balance of power and forcing an even more crippling ETS on the nation may well combine to reduce the whitewash that will happen at the next election.

Note I don’t say there will not be a whitewash, just that it may not be as crushing as the polls currently suggest, come the time when people actually have to put pen to paper in a ballet box.

Besides, governments in Australia have to be functionally appalling before the electorate tosses them out. Almost all governments get two terms, Rudd knows this, thereby why shorten the time he is in, when his chance to win the next election is pretty much in the bank anyway?

There’s two things to this Bernard that I can’t fathom. First For the life of me I can’t see why they persist. Surely to Baal they’d do better going to ground on climate change, the economy and refugess. Let the govt make the running and make the mistakes. Use the time to actually pay someone to do some issues polling and come out to kick the govt where its going to hurt. You have to know the vulnerable bits of your alien monster. The only conclusion I come to is that Turnbull the tyro is no good at politics (which is a shame) and the coaliton is so deeply factonalised that he can’t see how to move forward. When Turnbull stood up to the party room they went all kittenish like LNP party rooms seem to in the face of leadership. Why then doesn’t he pull in the heads that keep on these worse than useless attacks

No. 2 If Rudd won’t spend his political capital now, well, WHY DID HE GET ELECTED??????

As for the Opposition leader, he must be thinking this is all too hard compared to running abusiness where everybody just does what they are told.

Australia has a foreign debt representing 56% of GDP and gross foreign liabilities of 150% of GDP.
Most of its major companies are effectively owned by international banks and without ongoing international funding we would have the same problems as Ireland. Once all of the resources we have are owned by the internationalists ,what will happen to the Australian people?. I know, we can join the global community and beg for our existence. We exist at the leisure of the international financiers.

Forget a few boats and a meaningless ETS, forget about the plunder of the worlds natural resources.

How about we talk about our economic future and the demise of the nation state everyone!

Go the Double Dissolution.

I’d pay to be sitting in parliament watching you and your Cabinet negotiate and deal with all the loopy Left lunatics and Greentards Bernie hear swears will enter parliament if you do.

More fun than watching Fev’s Alcoholic Intervention Groups Christmas Break-up drinks.