The Gillard Government

[drsmith]

When that bloke on the end of the panel made a criticism of Rudd, I could see Rudd's whole face change and his bottom lip was trembling.

the best Kevin Rudd could come up with to that criticism was to suggest we take a greater responsibility in the context of the total number of refugees.

That though does not address the management of this idiology.

 

[kingcarmleo]

When will this nightmare end? Soon we can only hope.

 

[sptrawler]

Yes I think the electorate is waking up at last that Labor make poor decissions then tax the hell out people to pay for them.
We have to have a flood tax because we haven't any money. Because we gave it all away 2 years ago to stop a slump in consumer spending, but all they did was put it off and it is happening now. The slump in tax revenue due to minning capital spending and retail related tax collection dropping off has to be picked up someware. "I know a new tax", then everyone has to pay it, it is easier than raising the G.S.T level. "But what can we call it, I know the carbon tax". Jeez give me a break its just another tax to support the stupid N.B.N and other crazy Labor policy like extra detention centre housing for failed boat people policy. The old saying you can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but not all the people all the time is comming home to roost.

 

[Julia]

A few letters to "The Australian" today which seemed to the point.

In the event of global cooling, will the government give s buckets of money to boost the consumption of gas and electricity?

Julia tried to go a deep shade of Green, but there was no bounce in the polls. Then she tried her brand of atheistic Christianity, but still the polls marched determinedly southwards.
What's next on the faux-belief agenda? UFOs?

Rudd to Gillard via Q&A: "That's not a knife. This is a knife."

It's now official. Kevin Rudd's second tilt at becoming PM was officially launched on Q & A.
A road to Damascus rebirth of the new man is now publicly announced, courtesy of the ABC as Rudd's de facto factional machine and Tony Jones as his campaign manager.

I wonder how many viewers were fooled by Kevin O'Lemon's carefully arranged show of contrition and bonhomie on Q&A.

This was nothing more than an instalment in the Kevin vs Julia contest.
Let's just have an election and then they can contest the leadership in opposition.

And from "The Australian" 's satirical column "Strewth!":

Heading inland from Bellingen on the NSW north coast, the Waterfall Way winds past Thora then up the rainforest cloaked mountainside to Dorrigo.
"Strewth" finds it challenging enough in the car, so we were a little alarmed to discover Tony Abbott had cycled up it yesterday. He revealed the secret ingredients to 2SM's Grant Goldman: "A Mars Bar and a Coke at the start of the hill, that helped."
As did, we suspect replaying Monday night's Q&A in his head on high rotation.

Speaking of which, as troubling as it was at the time, Kevin Rudd's almost romantic reminiscence about first meeting Julie Bishop in Zimbabwe was a moment of relative innocence on Q&A before the storm. (Well, almost.) Rudd's insistence on shortening of Zimbabwe to "Zim" did elicit parallel tweets from self-described "simpering fop" Jules Schiller and Chaser member Chas Licciardello asking:
"if Zimbabwe was Zim, what would Rudd with Fukushima?"

Memo to Hawker Britton - Advise Julia not to try to make the Greens dance to her tune by shooting at their toes while she is playing footsie with them.

 

[Logique]

A few letters to "The Australian" today which seemed to the point.

So funny, thank you Julia. Now those are what I call Clean Jokes.

'..In the event of global cooling, will the government give buckets of money to boost the consumption of gas and electricity?..'

He he. Global cooling is exactly what Victorian sunspots guru Kevin Long says will happen within a few decades: http://www.thelongview.com.au/sunmoonclimate.html

Mind you I am a banjo-playing redneck extremist. Just ask the parliamentary ALP.

 

[Julia]

Quite a good comment from Glenn Milne about our Kev on Q&A on Monday.
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles...nl&emcmp=Punch&emchn=Newsletter&emlist=Member

Did anyone see Ms Gillard on 7.30 this evening?
Why does she have to do that patronising smile all the time when she is offering non-answers to questions?

And I nearly choked on my wine when she pronounced hyperbole as hyperbowl!!!
Unbelievable.

Chris Urhlman is trying hard but so far he's just not cutting it imo.
Other views?

 

[sptrawler]

I just have a huge problem with not screaming when it comes to talking about this government. The last thing they are concerned about is the "normal working family" all they are concerned about is to be sitting around with their chardoney socialist mates saying what a great job they are doing of F ALL.
BLOODY FOOLS SUROUNDED BY FOOLS

 

[sinner]

Caught this in the Business section of some newspaper while eating lunch today, was so good I wrote the authors name down and came home to google it, so as to post it here.

Took me a little while to find the article, but he has it hosted on his own website.

Peter Martin telling it like it is, or as he calls it:

Where Gillard gets the Greens wrong
http://www.petermartin.com.au/2011/04/where-gillard-gets-greens-wrong.html

Never has it been more important to understand the Greens. Never has a prime minister had less of a clue.

From July the Greens will decide which bills become law and which don’t. The prime minister says they "will never embrace Labor’s delight at sharing the values of every day Australians, in our cities, suburbs, towns and bush, who day after day do the right thing, leading purposeful and dignified lives, driven by love of family and nation”. Maybe, but that’s not what they will be called on to do.

They will be asked to vote on tax bills, on corporate regulation and on all manner of measures relating to economic management.

There are clues as to how they will vote, and if we are to believe her, the prime minister has missed every one.

Gillard thinks the Greens don’t get economics. They “wrongly reject the moral imperative to a strong economy,” she told the Whitlam Institute.

Her sidekick Anthony Albanese says they “tend to be a grab-bag of issues, tend not to have a coherent policy that adds up”.

Her resources minister Martin Ferguson says they want to “sit under the tree and weave baskets with no jobs”.

Its a forgivable impression until you examine what their supporters actually think...

Clicky the link to read on. It is a great article highlighting some interesting research.

 

[sptrawler]

Well under this Government we have the two speed economy well that is obvious when we are led by dumb and dumber. Lets be honest throwing money at people to buy T.V's two years ago $20 billion if my memory serves me correctly. Wouldn't it be better if we were building nation building infrastructure like connecting the north west shelf gas to the cooper basin to supply the eastern states. Maybe a water pipe from the kimberleys to Perth and supplying everyone including the mining areas with water for a measley $12 billion doesn't sound that bad when put in context. At least the money would have supplied ongoing jobs here rather than buying people a T.V to watch while they are out of work and being taxed more, so much for the hand outs, I hope you enjoyed them. .
Sorry I forgot you will get a better internet connction, there you are that makes you feel better.

 

[sails]

... At least the money would have supplied ongoing jobs here rather than buying people a T.V to watch while they are out of work and being taxed more, so much for the hand outs, I hope you enjoyed them. .
Sorry I forgot you will get a better internet connction, there you are that makes you feel better.

And what's the point of a new TV when carbon tax comes in? It will likely become too costly to run. Labor apparently want us to change our habits and use our plasma TVs sparingly.

And what's the point of fast internet when keeping the computer on all day will again be too expensive?

Yes, agree the funds would have been better spent elsewhere especially now that many those new TVs will possibly just gather dust. Obviously labor policy be would have to be made on the run without sufficient due diligence prior to implementation.

Just seeing the lengths labor have gone to prevent NBN due diligence being made public is a worrying prospect.

 

[sptrawler]

Fortunatelly like trainspotter mentioned the wheels are starting to look very wobbly on the N.B.N cart. Also it sounds as though Bob Brown is starting to get a bit peeved with the Government reneging on deals made with them(they should get used to it the Government hasn't a clue). Only a matter of time before the underlying chaos in Labors policy and fiscal management unravels the bond between the greens and Labor. Then the independants will distance themselves especially when the small business sector in their elecorate start jumping up and down. High tax, high petrol prices,high electricity and gas prices, high commercial rents, high food prices then add another tax that will lift the underlying cost on most things = a hard time for small business. One would think that this is giving treasury a headache it is starting to look a bit like the situation just before Kev was chucked out. It's like a juggler with one too many objects in the air you can see that it just doesn't look comfortable.Slowly, slowly catch the monkey just doesn't seem to be in Labors makeup.

 

[sails]

More broken promises on a key commitment - greens won't be happy:

Labor to break promise on dental subsidy scheme

Health Minister Nicola Roxon has ruled out funding a comprehensive dental subsidy scheme in the May budget, breaking a key commitment Labor struck with the Greens to form government.

Backflips seem to be becoming the norm. Seems to be plenty of money for asylum seekers, climate change "experts", Rudd's throw away billions, etc, etc.

But when it comes to flood repair money, labor cries poor. Now crying poor again when it suits them. What will be next?

 

[joea]

I would like an enquiry into the employment figures.

The more people that are out of work.
The more companies that go bankrupt on BER.
The more companies that are put out of business.
The worse our economy becomes.
The higher the $A goes to gut the tourist industry.

The better the unemployment figures are.

Something smell pretty bad in this area.

The government should come clean on "deployment".

Cheers

 

[Julia]

With most political leaders the longer they are in office the more clearly we understand what they are about.

Kev we knew was obsessively controlling, unable to delegate and/or trust subordinates.

His personality was supercilious, arrogant.

John Howard was the archetypal conservative and never deviated from this. He was always clear about what he stood for.

But somehow with Ms Gillard, the longer she is PM, the less idea I have about what she is all about. She seems to have no clear identity of her own but rather to be the product of multiple approaches by the spin advisers. She comes across to me as a sort of cardboard cut out, whose mouth issues whatever the factional advisers tell her to say at any given time.

 

[nulla nulla]

And I nearly choked on my wine when she pronounced hyperbole as hyperbowl!!!
Unbelievable.

Must have been the Welsh/South Australian accent comming through. Could have been worse though, she could have pronounced it "hyperbowel". Proberly more appropriate when you consider it.

 

[sails]

Must have been the Welsh/South Australian accent comming through. Could have been worse though, she could have pronounced it "hyperbowel". Proberly more appropriate when you consider it.

Don't think the Welsh/South Australian accent could really be the culprit. The two words are pronounced very diferently - and not hyperbowel either...

It's pronounced "hy·per·bo·le"

US audio can be found here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyperbole
 

 

[Logique]

Labor to break promise on dental subsidy scheme...Seems to be plenty of money for asylum seekers, climate change "experts", Rudd's throw away billions, etc, etc...

So true Sailsy. The dental scheme could have been done if their financial planning went beyond the level of teenagers with pocket money. Yet another slap to (what remains of) the Labor heartland. Not much of it remaining in this state.

 

[Logique]

Fortunatelly like trainspotter mentioned the wheels are starting to look very wobbly on the N.B.N cart. Also it sounds as though Bob Brown is starting to get a bit peeved with the Government reneging on deals made with them(they should get used to it the Government hasn't a clue). Only a matter of time before the underlying chaos in Labors policy and fiscal management unravels the bond between the greens and Labor. Then the independants will distance themselves especially when the small business sector in their elecorate start jumping up and down. High tax, high petrol prices,high electricity and gas prices, high commercial rents, high food prices then add another tax that will lift the underlying cost on most things = a hard time for small business. One would think that this is giving treasury a headache it is starting to look a bit like the situation just before Kev was chucked out. It's like a juggler with one too many objects in the air you can see that it just doesn't look comfortable.Slowly, slowly catch the monkey just doesn't seem to be in Labors makeup.

Loving your posts sptrawler, but mate, even better with a paragraph break or two in there. Cheers, L.

 

[Logique]

Must have been the Welsh/South Australian accent comming through. Could have been worse though, she could have pronounced it "hyperbowel". Proberly more appropriate when you consider it.

Nulla, let's wait for the moment when the word 'epitome' comes up in one of her speeches. Probably a slight pause beforehand.

 

[nulla nulla]

Nulla, let's wait for the moment when the word 'epitome' comes up in one of her speeches. Probably a slight pause beforehand.

as in......"ep-i-to-me"..... lol