Ruddy horror picture show is back in town:

"It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the Rudd Warp again!"

"It's so dreamy, oh fantasy free me
So you can't see me, no not at all
In another dimension, with voyeuristic intention
Well-secluded, I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You're there in the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on sensation, like you're under sedation
Let's do the Rudd Warp again!

But after next Monday, he'll have to be satisfied with a back bench seat where he can once again contemplate life, the universe, and eat his own ear wax.

When this Cr-p is all over, there will be a fundamental change:

Chifley's and Labour's legacy, of 'The Light On The Hill' will forevermore be replaced by Rudd's, Gillard's and Labor's new legacy of 'The Fight On The Hill'.

I was hoping against hope that Rudd would bow out of the challenge. But this is not to be, and given the man's ego and sense of having been wronged, that is hardly surprising.
So now it comes down to a fight on Monday, and then either Rudd or Gillard will go the backbench.
Hopefully that will be an end to this particular sad saga in the Politics of Oz.
Meanwhile Abbott is waiting for the prime minister-ship that he thinks is his by right. If he installed Turnbull as Treasurer, he would have a better chance.
One question: Why is Abbott supposed to be so on the nose with women? His marriage seems to be a good one, and he and his wife have raised three daughters. What's not to like about that record?

The biggest disappointment for me is the fact that K Rudd has failed to secure himself a position with the United Nations. This despite, I'm sure, a glowing reference from J Gillard, who must know full well that with Kevin out of the way there's no viable other candidate for the Labor leadership.

halduell I don't think it's so much that he's on the nose with women, as his budgie smugglers are on the nose with the feminists/women's libbers. As you probably know most of them are both lefties & noisy, hence the perception.

It would be interesting if Graham had some demographics on that, from their surveys. It should tell us how much noise, coming from feminists actually rubs off on real women.

Now that the dopes are confessing Kevin's
"crimes" they seem to have been non-existent.

Honestly some people are stupid.

A number of things happened after Rudd was elected.

1. He did not whole heartedly support everything Israel did, so the zionist like Arbib and Gillard didn't like it. Fancy defending a country who used forged Australian passports to murder someone in another country - every other country acted swiftly to kick out the diplomats.

2. He wanted to support or abstain from the vote for Palestine to be in UNESCO, Gillard voted against it as if the people of Palestine don't matter a hill of beans.

3. he was anti her stupid illegal push aways of refugees to Malaysia and he was proven to be right on that on all accounts. I don't know if anyone is aware of one fact that is an outrage - more people have killed themselves in illegal refugee prisons under Gillard than for all the 18.5 years before. Gillard though stood and told victims of Sri Lankas killing fields they would be sent to permanent prison in Malaysia or deported because Rajapaksa was so nice now. The records show that after the deportation of 66 Sri Lankans in 2010 only 14 have been removed. The acceptance rate for them is now running at over 90%.
4. Gillard gloated when the AFP shot at refugees like fish in a barrel, without realising they were shooting at the staff as well and endangering their lives.
5. Gillard has built more refugee prisons than anyone ever.
6. Gillard passed illegal retrospective laws to claim that anyone who helped a refugee anytime in the last 12 years was a criminal who had to be jailed for 5 years without a trial.
7. she has extended the racist intervention in the outback and is now driving young aboriginal girls to suicide for the first time ever.

Most of Australia can't abide her, but we can't abide Abbott either.

I wonder how we got to this.