Personally I found the article rambling and shambolic, more akin to a Yr12 essay than a reasoned argument.
Slanted, simplistic, falling prey to the very things it appeared to be reputing, and with no clear conclusions or suggestions.
3/10 I'm afraid.

Spindoc old mate; that's not your usual high speed spin mate, but whipping it into shape/submission, with a frenzied giant sized eggbeater on steroids!
And I completely refute your take on my more than extremely reasonable, very brief comment, made even more reasonable, by the sheer number of links the Author provided!
As for being a leftie or rightie; [or even a brightie tightie nightie,] I'm neither, or none of the above, given I intensely dislike all politicians equally!
And fact benders like you, slightly less?
If facts can be compared to a line between A+B, then surely your renditions or remake of some of them, is a circle leading nowhere, or straight up a fundamental orifice?
Where you opinions or take on most things, seemed to have originated!
Suggest in future, you try talking from a little higher up!
You have a nice day now, y'hear.
Rhrosty.

‘morning planter,

Apology accepted but I still have no idea what your expression means and no thanks, I don’t need enlightenment.

@Rhrosty

The number of links Rob Cover provided is irrelevant and you know it. The Joe Hockey link was wrong in the SMH, it was wrong in Robs article and you missed it then went dribbling when you said << Thank heavens for fact checkers and A+ articles just like this one Rob!>> Goose.

You can check it out for yourself, or you can take my word for it. What is it with you guys that inhibits you from acknowledging when you get it wrong?

It’s not a death sentence for pity’s sake. Just check the facts you keep blathering about before you dribble down your shirt.

First Rhrosty

May I say you are a stout fellow and British to the booties. Being a pressurised water reactor (PWR) man myself I do respect your advocacy, however misguided, for miniaturised thorium reactors.
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Secondly spindoc

I've located a most interesting link concerning Mr Hockey that may portend permanent doom:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/liberals-attack-joe-hockey-20140814-3dpoj.html :

"Joe Hockey's colleagues and political allies have rounded on the Treasurer, questioning his judgment and the quality of advice he is receiving after a disastrous gaffe...more than a dozen of Mr Hockey's supporters in the ministry and party machine...expressed surprise, concern and dismay about Mr Hockey's remarks.

Furious ministerial colleagues turned on the Treasurer over comments they variously described as "stupid and wrong", a "bad example of how to make a point" and "loose language"

"...Mr Hockey's gaffe has capped a difficult three months in which the Treasurer has been under fire for puffing on a cigar...dancing with his son on budget night...taking a holiday to Fiji during a key parliamentary sitting, complaining that everyone in the media was against him and co-operating with a biography that revealed he wanted an even tougher budget."

Has any Aussie Treasurer since the Vlad the Impaler been so popularity challenged?

OMG tosser you are such a planter,

I don’t care how many links you can find that articulate the sex life of the dromedary camel, the color of Joe Hockey’s socks, the eating habits of the lesser spotted dingbat, the nematode worm up your rectum or the spiral Higgs drive in your left ear.

The SMH got it wrong, Rob got it wrong and YOU got it wrong.

Repeat after me “Sorry I tried so hard to introduce a whole heard of Unicorns, I got it wrong, I did not check the source and I am forever tainted as a Spiral Drive, Lesser Spotted Dingbat that is too lazy to check my sources and love having social intercourse with camels”.

Sheesh planter, just say it for pities sake, you got it WRONG! I promise I will not send the camel love licensing department round to your humpy.

spindoc

Yee don't want to be poking fun at the phallic symbolism of my awesomely, humungus, sex-life (hetero-sexual I might add :-) http://youtu.be/6rwi_0DEd_0

Pete