Squeers meant to add, above, that the genius part of the mining tax was that Abbott would be obliged to contest it! That is defend a wealthy minority. The stroke of genius is that Rudd gets to play Robin Hood, while Abbott gets stuck with the role of Prince John!
I must say I'm impressed that I haven't copped any abuse; excellent restrain, fellows.
I'll also add that I had no intention of voting Labour before this, and I still don't like Rudd.
While I agree with Belly, that Rudd will win another term fairly easily, I shall bow humbly before wiser heads should that not eventuate.

One has to wonder were will rudds/ labors super tax stop.

It seems that rudd/labor are testing the waters as if this goes through we will then have the large chain supermarkets then the banks hit with this super tax.

Now belly would say no they wont, but belly should remember when even before the last state election that labor was still going to sell off electricity which he said no they would not, but still they try, and still they are trying to sell it.

So more tax higher costs, more debt that we the taxpayer has to pay back.

Stuart Ulrich
Independent

Posted by Squeers, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 5:00:42 PM
"while Rudd is a consummate performer and inveterate fabricator (that's the job description), at bottom I think there are a few things he actually believes in".

Posted by Andrew Bolt, Daily Telegraph, 5 May 2010

"Back when Rudd and I would still catch up for dinner or coffee, I knew him as a deeply insecure man who wanted nothing from politics but validation. Applause. Power.
Without revealing what he said in confidence, it struck me that there was no cause he cared about as deeply as his own success".

Now I concede that this journo is by nature to the right wing of Goebbels, but his evaluation of Rudd coincides with opinion of the friends I earlier mentioned (acolytes in Canberra) who virtually said the same thing. This guy is a major dudd. Ben Chifley started the Snowy Mountains Scheme, and this dudd cannot get insulation bats put in your roof correctly. Bob Hawke implemented Medibank and this dudd cannot even get a lap top and backup into the class rooms. James Scullin guided us through the Great Depression, and this dudd takes bouquets for saving us from absolutely nothing, our banks never failed, the lifestyles of everyone that I know stayed the same, basic items are expensive, like petrol, food, electricity, water, housing, but Kev is looking after my concerns with platitudes like Petrol Watch, Grocery Watch, Solar rebate, Batty pragramme, BER. But nothing is cheaper, nothing is fixed, nothing is finished.

Squeers as you intimate in your posts they are all bastards, but these bastards are incompetent.

PTB,

"It must be lonely for our good friend Belly. He must be the last man in Australia who believes Rudd will win a second term."

No,there are two of us.

The Liberals need fresh candidates. With Abbott, we would risk another Joh, Piggy Muldoon, or, even worse, a Winston Churchill.

p.s. Peter, I know Muldoon and were not Australians.

p.p.s. I have a friend who relates an experience at a Conference,where Robert Muldoon flipped-out, when he was asked to keep his speech short in consideration of other speakers.

The poster of this thread thinks he's riding on the populist wave of Rudd-knocking.

Channel 7's Sunrise did that this morning when it posed the question,"What is wrong with Kevin Rudd?". They then went on to vox pop 4 people. 2 of whom didn't vote for Rudd in the first place, one who said Rudd was destroying the country without identifying allegiances and one who said he thought we had had worse Prime Ministers in the past.

The recent opinion poll that has the Libs in raptures showed Rudd as having a 50% approval rating as preferred PM Abbott at 32%. Shouldn't we be asking, "whats wrong with Tony Abbott" on those figures.

Of course the problem with Abbott will be the policies that he will present, (none or little policy has been presented so far), but we do know that he wont allow an ETS or a Mining Tax or long overdue health changes etc, so on and so on.

We do know, "that he will not let an elected Govt govern". The responsibility (of the senate) is to review, consult, and examine the Govt's mandated legislation. Not just to knock, block, frustrate or sabotage the peoples representatives doing their job.

When we voted for the Rudd Govt, we voted for an ETS. Not even the Greens seem to understand this.

The Govt's mining tax, will once and for all prove ( if he sticks to it ),"that Kevin Rudd is indeed a conviction politician". And not the boogy man.

If Rudd wins the next election, we will have voted for the mining tax. What will the senate do?. Continue to obstruct the mandated agenda of our elected representatives?.

I hope not. But even that would be preferable to an Abbott led Govt ; "a genuine contender for worst PM and Govt we've ever had". One fixated anally on it's own small town ideological agenda a la Son of Howard.

As for the rhetoric of the Multinational Miners themselves, it's drivel for many reasons and I would like to make the subject of another post