What a mess this asylum seeker debacle is for us moving forward, and to think the problem was well and truly controlled prior to one ego driven K Rud coming on the scene.

What a mess he has left behind and to think he's on some $180K for life sickens me.

Rudd may have made a mess but it is morriscum and the lieberals who have turned it into a human rights violation and a crime against humanity. Nuremberg is calling you morriscum.

Gillard is on over $200,000 per year so I think Rudds may be more.

mikk,
How about putting your money where your mouth is ? How about starting to make payments to keep the boat people ?
Will you do that ? My guess is not. You have the audacity to come up with name calling like in your last post yet you're the scum who doesn't lift a finger nor give a cent to help. I really think you should crawl back into your hole & leave the thinking to those who can think.

your compassion is not compassion, it's a warm'n fozzy vogue thing, nothing else.
And yes, Rudd & Co have left us with an intolerable mess with the help of the likes of you. Don't you have any shame ?

<< What a mess this asylum seeker debacle is... ...the problem was well and truly controlled prior to one ego driven K Rud coming on the scene. >>

You're not wrong there rehctub.

This is what I wrote in 2008 immediately after Rudd’s great stuff-up:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=7744#120611

Dear rehctub,

What a mess Kevin Rudd left us with?

Really?

I think that like Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott has failed to
make the transition from opposition to government.
Mr Rudd, while a good opposition leader was felled by
his own hubris when in government. Mr Abbott, another
good opposition leader is threatened by his lack of
respect for the electorate. The parallels are uncanny.

What Mr Abbott is doing now that he's in government
can not be blamed on the previous government. And doing
so - no longer carries a lot of weight with the
disgruntled voting public - be it the budget or the
handling of asylum seekers.

And talking about asylum seekers...

The following link provides an accurate perspective on
what could have resulted, had Mr Abbott and his party
supported the Malaysian Solution:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-21/danby-liberals-want-it-both-ways-on-immigration/4155674

The Coalition were more concerned about winning an election,
than solving the asylum seeker problem. Politics before people.
Nothing has changed since then.