Yes Calliope, he was absolutely pathetic. Blamed everything and everybody but himself. So much for the "BUCK STOPS WITH ME". He just cannot help himself with his spin and BS!!!!!!!!!
I was waiting for O'Brien to ask him why he (Rudd) reneged on taking over the hospital system like he said he would instead of offering a watered down funding arrangement.
Funny the different way different people see things. I thought that Kerry was pushing Rudd hard ( contrary to some posts here that said O'Brien goes softly softly on Labour). I thought that Rudds responses were reasonable and consistant with events that have unfolded.
Funny the different way different people see things. I thought that Kerry was pushing Rudd hard ( contrary to some posts here that said O'Brien goes softly softly on Labour). I thought that Rudds responses were reasonable and consistant with events that have unfolded.
nioka, I guess that's your perogative to express faith in a dead horse, because even if he wins the next election their will be a LABOR party revolt to depose of the carcass a soon as possible, like within 3 months after the election.
When I say that Rudds comments were reasonable
That is an example of what i mean when i say people see things differently. You assume I am actually promoting Rudd and Labor and faith in a dead horse. You are wrong.
1. The horse is sick, not dead.
2. When I say Rudds comments were reasonable you assume that I agree that he fully answered all questions while I mean "what other way would a politition answer the question in the lead up to an election".
3. You see Labour probably losing the next election. I don't.
4. If he did win you say he will only last 2 to 3 months. If he wins, and I suggest he will, I see him being a hero again within the party.
5.You assume I am a staunch Labor supporter. I am not. I will vote for the Libs again BUT NOT WITH ABBOTT leading them.
I started the thread
I say let 'er rip.
For me, all the interview achieved was the sense that, prior to the election, someone at the ABC has told K. O'Brien that he absolutely has to be seen to be impartial to both sides.
I am not too happy about the reason and the ultimate aim of greater good which in my opinion is to be just re-elected.
I started the thread
I say let 'er rip.
The greater good is basically a case of the end justifying the means.
Yes Happy, their main aim (end) is indeed to be re-elected... but I think while they succeeded in the greater good of averting a recession, the (means) over-baking the insulation scheme in particular may still hurt their re-election chances.
Lol... whatever you say boss.
Opposition climate change spokesman Greg Hunt likened Mr Rudd's inflamed display to former Labor leader Mark Latham.
"It appears that under the slightest pressure, the Prime Minister is looking increasingly out of control," he said.
"He is making wildly erratic decisions and morphing into Mark Latham, but without the conviction," Mr Hunt said.
Rudd07 - Out by 11
Is that a failure or achievement or both?
The following extract is from Mary Venon's "ABOUT TOWN" Townsville Daily Bulletin 13/05/2010.
Australia Post created a new stamp displaying a piture of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and has recently suspended a recall of the stamps requested by Mr. Rudd after a special commission inquiry finding. The Prime Minister had been told the stamp was not sticking to envelopes and, enraged, he demanded a full investigation. After a month of testing and spending $1.73 million, a special commission presented the following findings:
1) The stamp is in perfect order.
2) There is nothing wrong with the adhesive.
3) People are spitting on the wrong side of the stamp.
2. commitment to limit real spending growth to 2% a year;
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THE Government's claim to fiscal rectitude is an utter sham. Wayne Swan's budget is built on two great fiddles.
Appropriately, the fiddles relate to the Rudd Government's two great stupidities -- the National Broadband Network and the Emissions Trading Scheme.
The fiddles enable the Government to hide up to a massive $50 billion of new spending. So much for the claim they've pulled the pursestrings tight.
They also enable the Government to 'keep' the growth in spending in the 2013-14 year to just 1.9 per cent. Without the fiddles, spending would actually have grown by at least 3.5 per cent in that year - shattering the Government's 2 per cent ceiling.
Now yes, the Government's second great stupidity, the ETS, has been 'deferred', while the first marches on. Or rather, will be literally strung along -- from power poles, as our wired 21st century is delivered by a (very) early 20th century mode.
Ditching the ETS enables the Government to take up to $30 billion of proposed spending on it out of the budget and replace it -- or most of it -- by new spending. With, in an exercise of fiscal magic, no increase in the total spending number!
While separately the $26 billion-going-on-$43 billion to be spent on the NBN is just 'disappeared' almost completely from the budget!
Let me put it in VERY SIMPLE terms for you. This budget is for 2010. If NBN does not kick off in 2010, 2011 or even 2012, WHY SHOULD IT BE LISTED HERE. I am damned sure that the public already know about it, unless one has been completely obtuse. Have you done your own personal budget For This Year, and listed in it what you plan on spending a couple of years down the track?
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