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Does Kevin Rudd deserve our trust to govern

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First Dog on the Moon cartoon:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/07/26/its-a-bastardathon-who-will-be-the-bastardest/

You are joking, SPQR.

Of course this latest round is an Abbot vs Rudd issue.

It's "Who can be toughest on refugees arriving by boat" (will probably win the election)

Wonderful theatre.

Two go-get-em pollies trying to out do each other in a race for the "get-em-outa-here" vote.

Wonder who will win?

Who "will" be the "bastardest"?
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 26 July 2013 1:50:44 PM
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Poirot, "Who "will" be the "bastardest"?"

Too easy, the lunar Greens Protest Party of course.

All care and no responsibility.

No scrutiny by the media either. The publicly funded national broadcasters 'are loving'* (sic) the Greens too.

* to use the vernacular of the (ahem) recreational drug using Greens.
Posted by onthebeach, Friday, 26 July 2013 2:27:08 PM
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Who needs recreational drugs - when you can play war games in the bath!

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/david-pope-20120214-1t3j0.html
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 26 July 2013 2:38:10 PM
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Interesting a Thesaurus,

Typing in Rudd I get:

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And for greens I get:

adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling
Posted by Shadow Minister, Friday, 26 July 2013 2:39:04 PM
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Here is an interesting article:

"KEVIN Rudd is the best present Labor could give a Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Sure, Abbott still has a tougher fight to win the next election, although Rudd's familiar bungling has made that job easier than it seemed a week ago.

But Rudd's wild policy reversals since he snatched back the prime ministership have helped Abbott to now win the election after that, too. Does Labor realise Rudd is trashing its credibility on the very issues that would most test Abbott if he wins the election?

Abbott's two signature promises - to scrap the carbon tax and stop the boats - were the hardest to keep. To scrap the tax, Abbott would need to get legislation through Parliament. But the present Senate, with a Greens and Labor majority, stays until June 30 next year and there is only a small chance Abbott would have the numbers in the Senate after that.

He could not get rid of the tax quickly or easily without Labor giving in, or without calling a double dissolution election next year to ram through his legislation.

Until then, his government would be too worried about voter backlash to act firmly to stop the economy sliding. It would have wallowed.

But Rudd has now declared (falsely) that he himself will "terminate" the carbon tax. In doing so, Rudd admits what Labor long denied - the tax is too high and is hurting voters.

How could Labor defend that tax now? Its credibility is shattered.

Same deal on boats. Abbott's promise to "stop the boats" in his first three years always seemed dodgy.

Too many are now coming and stopping them would take more toughness than the Senate, the courts and the media were likely to allow. But then came Rudd.

Desperate to fix a problem he caused by scrapping our tough border laws in 2008, Rudd promised something tougher than any politician before him.

With that, Rudd didn't just give Abbott the basis of a deal he himself could use in government. He also destroyed Labor's moral grandstanding."
Posted by Shadow Minister, Friday, 26 July 2013 2:55:24 PM
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Poirot, "you can play war games in the bath"

As opposed to the treacherous Greens Protest Party who heckle the major political parties while giving oxygen to criminal gangs responsible for dozens of deaths at sea.

I wonder what donations and other support the Greens are receiving from the horde of advocates and professionals who are slyly taking $$millions out of the trough of taxpayers' money while bunging on tears for asylum seekers?

Hey, those hundreds of lawyers over-supplied by universities have got to earn a crust somehow. Ambulance chasing is too competitive.

Why doesn't that smooth talking PM who got us into this Ruddy mess make decisions by the Australian Immigration Department final and non-appealable? Denmark does that and can turn economic migrants back at the gate or within one week.
Posted by onthebeach, Friday, 26 July 2013 2:56:27 PM
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