Rats...and I thought my buddy PROXY was back :) Hoully.. you are a scoundrel and a tease. *grin*

Even the catastrophe of the floods cannot encourage the intellectual gnomes who represent us in the federal parliament to cooperate in the nation's best interests and agree the obvious, that it makes far better sense to increase the current accounts deficit and spread the costs to future years.

Of course to do that both Gillard and Abbott would have to agree that the posturing both do regarding the current accounts deficit is both foolish and counter-productive.

Now is the time to rebuild quickly while at the same time grasping the opportunity to develop significant new infrastructure.

But no, there is the same old stuff from the same old war horses on both sides of the House, with the court jesters, the Greens, providing comic relief.

Tony Abbot is without a doubt Australia's worst ever opposition leader:
He's a moron who can't budget a high-end salary, superstitious bible-thumper, callous, greedy, and a sniveling two-faced liar who lacks the redeeming features a conservative leader normally has (he even was prepared to not only bribe, but secretly sabotage his own border security stance in the hopes of getting the same INdependent MP who rejected him the first time to change sides).

For the Liberals to have put a clown like him in charge simply leaves me in a position to look towards the other parties (not Labor though).

Having said that, seeing as he will be little better or worse than Labor, I am not greatly concerned about the old 'we-must-vote-the-other-party-to-oust-this-one' line:

Lol! So you don't like the Mad Abbott then, King Hazza? :)

I was about to say something similar, but you said it all so well that I don't have much to add!

I very much doubt if Abbott will ever be in charge of our country.
We have far too many intelligent voters in Australia to allow that to happen.

The sugestion that Tony Abbot is PM by proxy suggests he has the leadership over Labor current best.

Welcome back Houellebecq.

Tony Abbott; PM by proxy?

Thanks for the joke as Belly said, but - No Thanks!
And talking of proxies and jokes - here's another one:

The Smiths had no children and decided to use a proxy father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr Smith kissed his wife and said, "I'm off. The man should be here soon."

Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer rang the doorbell, hoping to make a sale.

"Good morning madam. You don't know me, but I've come to ..."

"Oh, no need to explain. I've been expecting you," Mrs Smith cut in.

"Really?" the photographer asked. "Well, good! I've made a specialty of babies."

"That's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat. Just where do we start?" asked Mrs Smith, blushing.

"Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch and perhaps a couple on the bed. Sometimes the living room floor is fun too; you can really spread out."

"Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work for Harry and me."

"Well, madam, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results."

"I hope we can get this over with quickly," gasped Mrs Smith.

"Madam, in my line of work, a man must take his time. I'd love to be in and out in five minutes, but you'd be disappointed with that, I'm sure."

"Don't I know!" Mrs Smith exclaimed.

The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. "This was done on the top of a bus in downtown London." "Oh my God!" Mrs Smith exclaimed, tugging at her hankerchief.

"And these twins turned out exceptionally well when you consider their mother was so difficult to work with." The photographer handed Mrs Smith the picture.

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