This is what I think too.Well I sure hope you’re right.
Tony Abbott is just watching the smoke from Kevin Rudd spinning the wheels at full throttle and waiting for the engine to blow up.
Tony Abbott is just watching the smoke from Kevin Rudd spinning the wheels at full throttle and waiting for the engine to blow up. When it does let go (which I think will be before the election), the recriminations from within alone will make what has gone previous look like a church picnic.
I don't share your confidence. In fact I think during his extended time on the back bench, Kevin Rudd has given very careful thought to exactly what he will do should he get this additional chance.Kevin Rudd's trying to hide himself with all the smoke. In doing that, the engine can only last so long. When it finally goes like a Russian N1 rocket, we'll know exactly how far he's gone.
It will be little pieces in every direction and a big crater underneath.
I don't share your confidence. In fact I think during his extended time on the back bench, Kevin Rudd has given very careful thought to exactly what he will do should he get this additional chance.
It doesn't make him changed in the least, or any more sincere, just smarter and more able to hide his dysfunctional ways. His colleagues are so desperate to keep their seats (with the noble exceptions of those who were principled enough to resign) and will do whatever Kev says, having already mortgaged their souls to him.
We need to remember that much of the electorate doesn't take the day to day interest in politics that some of us here do, and are easily manipulated by someone who is zipping round the country, at least looking as though he has some plans for the future (never mind that they will be ill thought out and unfunded), whilst Mr Abbott largely sits impotently wondering what to do.
So what has the last six years of labor been about. Apparently they are scrapping the carbon tax, give me a break.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ke...ng-of-carbon-tax/story-fnii5s3y-1226678990206
What is going on!!!!!!
Explod give me some inside info on the capitulation.
or is it just another in the long list of failed policies.lol,lol,lol
Rudd wanted an ETS in the first place so he can reasonably say he is being consistent on this.
It will make Tony Abbott's promise of removing 'that big bad tax' seem much less relevant, which of course is Rudd's intention.
Yes but it also shows they were wrong in the first place.
What it really shows is that Rudd will do anything to get re-elected. It neutralises one more negative. Rudd can also say he never introduced it. A very wily politician.
The Opposition again interrupted Question Time to accuse the Prime Minister of lying over the carbon tax and asking her to apologise to the Australian people.
But Mr Windsor said Mr Abbott would have been willing to introduce a carbon tax in order to win the support of independent MPs after the last election.
"This man, the Leader of the Opposition, was quite prepared to do that if he'd been given the nod on that particular day," Mr Windsor told Parliament.
"'I will do anything, anything to get this job' - they were the comments, and people know that, and they should know it.
"He made the point not only to me but to others in that negotiating period that he would do anything to get that job: 'I would do anything to get that job, Tony, the only thing I wouldn't do is sell my ****'."
Mr Windsor said Mr Abbott had been totally inconsistent on carbon pricing.
I'm not sure what you mean here. If Rudd said originally that he believed there should be an ETS (rather than a carbon tax), got rolled on it, and now that he's back, is continuing with what he originally said, who/what is wrong?Yes but it also shows they were wrong in the first place.
He betrayed his conservative electorate for few shekels and the focus of the spotlight on himself for one term.
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