KRudd a one term PM!
Polly the Parrot
Kevin Rudd and Labor's one-term nightmare
By Glenn Milne
June 15, 2008 12:00am
IN THE most private recesses of their minds, some Labor figures are
thinking the unthinkable: could Kevin Rudd be a one-term prime
minister, the first of the modern era?
(Let's hope so! - Polly)
Rudd himself has warned that although the Government appears to have a
healthy majority on paper, a good number of its seats are held by
wafer-thin margins.
But this is a mathematical assessment. What's driving the pessimism -
albeit still nascent - in Labor ranks is the Prime Minister's style of
political management, his apparently boundless appetite for "gesture
politics'' and the increasingly fractured narrative it creates.
(Show Pony! - Polly)
Take last week's visit to Japan. Rudd was seen to have neglected Tokyo
diplomatically by over-reaching on the China relationship - a
miscalculation perceived to have bruised Japanese sensibilities.
This against a background of bellicose threats to take Japan to the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) over its "scientific'' whaling,
backed by the dispatch of an Australian observer ship to collect video
evidence of the Southern Ocean slaughter.
That last "gesture'' had enormous support in Australia. But, given his
earlier bilateral miscalculation, by the time the Prime Minister
reached Tokyo any threat to drag Tokyo to the ICJ had been
unceremoniously jettisoned.
Instead, Rudd said Australia would pursue the whaling issue though
diplomacy.
Given Japan's historic intransigence on the question - intransigence
confirmed by Rudd's Japanese counterpart last week - that's code for
giving up.
(Krudd the Fraud - Polly)
Although Rudd tried to give the impression he had never really
sabre-rattled on the issue, Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt
hoisted the Prime Minister on his own verbiage, producing 10 quotes
from Rudd in which he either declared action through the International
Whaling Commission - the path we're now pursuing - useless or advocated
action through the ICJ.
Faced with the short-term necessity to shore up relations with Tokyo,
Rudd completely abandoned his previous position, even adding another
piece of "gesture politics'' with the announcement of the so-called
``Green Car'' package, worth $35 million, at Toyota's headquarters.
The problem is that such gestures - this time, aimed at the environment
vote - don't always equate to good policy.
In this case, we find that one, taxpayers are giving $35 million to the
world's most profitable car-maker (net profit last year $US15 billion)
when it transpires Toyota intended to manufacture a "green car'' in
Australia anyway.
Two, the decision was made without Cabinet approval out of a fund that
has not yet had guidelines written. And three, it pre-empts a long-term
review of the car industry set up by Rudd and headed by former
Victorian Labor premier Steve Bracks.
(KRudd doesn't care about wasting taxpayer's money - Polly)
Such behaviour is becoming habitual for Rudd; when he thinks he needs
to begin his overseas tour to Japan and Indonesia with an intellectual
bang, he hauls down a thought bubble about a European Union-style
regional body.
It was immediately denounced as arrant nonsense by Paul Keating and Bob
Hawke, the joint architects of APEC. Not far behind was Peter Costello,
who pointed out to colleagues that one of the main principles of the EU
is the free movement of peoples across borders.
Costello observed there would likely be a lot more people in Jakarta
who wanted to come to Sydney than Sydneysiders who wanted to move to
the Indonesian capital.
(Shows what a dickhead Krudd is - Polly)
It's likely we'll not hear much more about Rudd's plan to rebuild the
regional architecture. About as much, I suspect, as his plans to take
Japan to the ICJ.
This kind of un-thought-through "gesture politics'' is emblematic of
Labor domestically as well. "Fuelwatch'' as a mechanism for bringing
down petrol prices has been demolished.
How do we know? Because Martin Ferguson - who actually does stand for
policy rigour in the Government - told us so.
(Pity Ferguson has now been told by Krudd to "shut up" as Garrett was!
- Polly)
The next piece of "gesture politics'' lined up for unveiling will be
``Foodwatch'', Labor's promised website and the grocery equivalent of
"Fuelwatch''.
(Showing his Public Service mentality - Polly)
It's unlikely to do anything more than supermarkets do now: monitoring
and matching their competitors' prices. Except that taxpayers, rather
than Coles and Woolworths, will have to pay for it. Then we have the
admission last week that the grandest piece of ``gesture politics'' of
the election campaign - Labor's so-called ``education revolution'' -
has slowed to more of an ``education evolution''.
Rudd left the clear impression running down to the poll that all senior
secondary-school students would have access to a government-provided
laptop.
Last week, Julia Gillard moved to dampen those expectations, saying it
was a longer-term aspiration and probably wouldn't be met during
Labor's first term.
(Krudd the liar! - Polly)
Then there's alco-pops, "gesture politics'' aimed at parents that fails
to address a binge-drinking problem that never existed while handily
giving the Government $3 billion in extra revenue.
(Mounting evidence sales of hard liquor have increased instead!- Polly)
This brings us to the Gippsland by-election, where one big distiller is
airing television ads beginning today making the point that the
alco-pop tax also hits the Bundy-and-Coke-drinking "ute man''
demographic - a group that could prove vital to the outcome in
Gippsland.
If Brendan Nelson snatches a convincing victory there later this month
- there is some cautious optimism on this count inside the Liberal
Party - he will have Rudd's flailing ``gesture politics'' to thank.
(And the Labor Party "mates" will stab Krudd in the back! - Polly)
mosher...@hotmail.com
wrote:
His own party will toss him if he doesn't loose the next election.
fasgnadh
> On Jun 15, 9:14 am, Polly the Parrot <flatulantdi...@deadspam.com>
> wrote:
>> Kevin Rudd and Labor's one-term nightmare
>>
>> By Glenn Milne
We all know where Glen stands, ..er, should that be FALLS, on alcopops!
B^D
>> This brings us to the Gippsland by-election, where one big distiller is
>> airing television ads beginning today
Wow!, a Big Drug Supplier is advertising against a measure
aimed to reduce teenage binge drinking!
What a surprise! B^D
>> making the point that the
>> alco-pop tax also hits the Bundy-and-Coke-drinking "ute man''
>> demographic - a group that could prove vital to the outcome in
>> Gippsland.
Timber workers drink sweet pink-coloured alco-pops?
"I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK
I wear frilly panties round the house all day!"
I don't think the ALP has ever had the Gay Mountie vote
in Gippsland.. the seat has been held by the National
Agrarian Socialists since Adam was a fruiterer! B^D
>> If Brendan Nelson snatches a convincing victory there later this month
If the Nats hold the seat with the same margin it will be situation
normal...
If their vote goes DOWN, Brenda is cactus!
>
> His own party will toss him if he doesn't loose the next election.
Brenda will not survive till the next election.
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"Polly the Parrot" <flatula...@deadspam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Kevin Rudd and Labor's one-term nightmare
>
> By Glenn Milne
>
> June 15, 2008 12:00am
>
> IN THE most private recesses of their minds, some Labor figures are
> thinking the unthinkable: could Kevin Rudd be a one-term prime
> minister, the first of the modern era?
>
> (Let's hope so! - Polly)
By Glenn Milne
August 19, 2007 12:00am
KEVIN Rudd's hopes of becoming Prime Minister have been rocked by a visit to
a New York strip club where he was warned against inappropriate behaviour
during a drunken night while representing Australia at the United Nations.
-----------------------------
Glenn Milne's a fuckwit.
Rudd went up in the polls after the strip club affair, Milne is what is
often referred to as a Lib loser.
Sir John Howard
> Kevin Rudd and Labor's one-term nightmare
>
> By Glenn Milne
>
> June 15, 2008 12:00am
>
> IN THE most private recesses of their minds, some Labor figures are
> thinking the unthinkable: could Kevin Rudd be a one-term prime
> minister, the first of the modern era?
>
> (Let's hope so! - Polly)
He might be out on his arse before then.
> Rudd himself has warned that although the Government appears to have a
> healthy majority on paper, a good number of its seats are held by
> wafer-thin margins.
Wafer-thin? Is KRudd Mr Creosote in disguise?
> But this is a mathematical assessment. What's driving the pessimism -
> albeit still nascent - in Labor ranks is the Prime Minister's style of
> political management, his apparently boundless appetite for "gesture
> politics'' and the increasingly fractured narrative it creates.
>
> (Show Pony! - Polly)
Yep!
> Take last week's visit to Japan. Rudd was seen to have neglected Tokyo
> diplomatically by over-reaching on the China relationship - a
> miscalculation perceived to have bruised Japanese sensibilities.
>
> This against a background of bellicose threats to take Japan to the
> International Court of Justice (ICJ) over its "scientific'' whaling,
> backed by the dispatch of an Australian observer ship to collect video
> evidence of the Southern Ocean slaughter.
>
> That last "gesture'' had enormous support in Australia.
Not really. Only the lefties loved it. The rest of us knew the
implications full well.
> But, given his
> earlier bilateral miscalculation, by the time the Prime Minister
> reached Tokyo any threat to drag Tokyo to the ICJ had been
> unceremoniously jettisoned.
Can you say "coward"?
> Instead, Rudd said Australia would pursue the whaling issue though
> diplomacy.
In other words bury it.
> Given Japan's historic intransigence on the question - intransigence
> confirmed by Rudd's Japanese counterpart last week - that's code for
> giving up.
>
> (Krudd the Fraud - Polly)
Yep.
> Although Rudd tried to give the impression he had never really
> sabre-rattled on the issue, Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt
> hoisted the Prime Minister on his own verbiage, producing 10 quotes
> from Rudd in which he either declared action through the International
> Whaling Commission - the path we're now pursuing - useless or advocated
> action through the ICJ.
LOL!
> Faced with the short-term necessity to shore up relations with Tokyo,
> Rudd completely abandoned his previous position, even adding another
> piece of "gesture politics'' with the announcement of the so-called
> ``Green Car'' package, worth $35 million, at Toyota's headquarters.
What a crawling brown noser! No wonder Fag's Nads and FlangesBum have
been shitting themselves all week!
> The problem is that such gestures - this time, aimed at the environment
> vote - don't always equate to good policy.
>
> In this case, we find that one, taxpayers are giving $35 million to the
> world's most profitable car-maker (net profit last year $US15 billion)
> when it transpires Toyota intended to manufacture a "green car'' in
> Australia anyway.
Talk about stupidity. KRudd has it in bucketloads.
> Two, the decision was made without Cabinet approval out of a fund that
> has not yet had guidelines written. And three, it pre-empts a long-term
> review of the car industry set up by Rudd and headed by former
> Victorian Labor premier Steve Bracks.
>
> (KRudd doesn't care about wasting taxpayer's money - Polly)
Its the labour way.
> Such behaviour is becoming habitual for Rudd; when he thinks he needs
> to begin his overseas tour to Japan and Indonesia with an intellectual
> bang, he hauls down a thought bubble about a European Union-style
> regional body.
Yep, that was the old Cheating furphy.
> It was immediately denounced as arrant nonsense by Paul Keating and Bob
> Hawke, the joint architects of APEC. Not far behind was Peter Costello,
> who pointed out to colleagues that one of the main principles of the EU
> is the free movement of peoples across borders.
Cheating and Borke joint architects? LOL! APEC was dreamed up by some
public servant who thought it would promote our trade.
> Costello observed there would likely be a lot more people in Jakarta
> who wanted to come to Sydney than Sydneysiders who wanted to move to
> the Indonesian capital.
I wouldn't move any part of that shithole or most of the rest of Asia
for that matter.
> (Shows what a dickhead Krudd is - Polly)
Yep.
> It's likely we'll not hear much more about Rudd's plan to rebuild the
> regional architecture. About as much, I suspect, as his plans to take
> Japan to the ICJ.
KRudd needs to build a bridge to Japan so FangesBum can get over it.
> This kind of un-thought-through "gesture politics'' is emblematic of
> Labor domestically as well. "Fuelwatch'' as a mechanism for bringing
> down petrol prices has been demolished.
>
> How do we know? Because Martin Ferguson - who actually does stand for
> policy rigour in the Government - told us so.
>
> (Pity Ferguson has now been told by Krudd to "shut up" as Garrett was!
> - Polly)
LOL!
> The next piece of "gesture politics'' lined up for unveiling will be
> ``Foodwatch'', Labor's promised website and the grocery equivalent of
> "Fuelwatch''.
>
> (Showing his Public Service mentality - Polly)
Yep. We've got the wrong turkey playing "Yes, Prime Minister".
> It's unlikely to do anything more than supermarkets do now: monitoring
> and matching their competitors' prices. Except that taxpayers, rather
> than Coles and Woolworths, will have to pay for it. Then we have the
> admission last week that the grandest piece of ``gesture politics'' of
> the election campaign - Labor's so-called ``education revolution'' -
> has slowed to more of an ``education evolution''.
>
> Rudd left the clear impression running down to the poll that all senior
> secondary-school students would have access to a government-provided
> laptop.
>
> Last week, Julia Gillard moved to dampen those expectations, saying it
> was a longer-term aspiration and probably wouldn't be met during
> Labor's first term.
Or, right!
> (Krudd the liar! - Polly)
Yep.
> Then there's alco-pops, "gesture politics'' aimed at parents that fails
> to address a binge-drinking problem that never existed while handily
> giving the Government $3 billion in extra revenue.
>
> (Mounting evidence sales of hard liquor have increased instead!- Polly)
Yep.
> This brings us to the Gippsland by-election, where one big distiller is
> airing television ads beginning today making the point that the
> alco-pop tax also hits the Bundy-and-Coke-drinking "ute man''
> demographic - a group that could prove vital to the outcome in
> Gippsland.
Oh, dear! KRudd's going to lose that one! LOL!
> If Brendan Nelson snatches a convincing victory there later this month
> - there is some cautious optimism on this count inside the Liberal
> Party - he will have Rudd's flailing ``gesture politics'' to thank.
>
> (And the Labor Party "mates" will stab Krudd in the back! - Polly)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/668xu2
KRudd will be out on his arse by the end of the year. If not sooner.
Denz
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>
>
> By Glenn Milne
Glen Milne makes a fool of himself - drunk or sober...
me@hotmail.com Lu R
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Promise to hold your breath till it happens?
Mr. 7%
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>
> "Sir John Howard" <sirjoh...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:d2dad603-b06b-4b87...@u6g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
>> Polly the Parrot wrote:
>>> Kevin Rudd and Labor's one-term nightmare
>>>
>>> By Glenn Milne
>>>
>>> June 15, 2008 12:00am
>>>
>>> IN THE most private recesses of their minds, some Labor figures are
>>> thinking the unthinkable: could Kevin Rudd be a one-term prime
>>> minister, the first of the modern era?
>
> Promise to hold your breath till it happens?
He should put his life savings on it these Lib losers are so sure, centrebet
is paying out 4 bucks fiddy for a Coalition win next election.
Don H
news:g32hs4$1hll$1...@otis.netspace.net.au...
# It somewhat depends on whether Fiscal Conservatism is the basic answer to
The Economy, or whether, like was said of the blitzkrieg, it is an extremely
limited tactical manoeuvre.
Kangarootedstan
"Don H" <donlhu...@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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The Heiner Affair is coming to take The Pixie away HA! HA!
To the Jail Cell HA! HA!
Never complete his one term HA! HA!
Vote out Brendan Nelson
Dean Jones
It won't be long now.
Polly the Parrot
<vo...@out.com> wrote:
> Kevin Rudd is the best PM in living memory
You were born yesterday?
PeterN
So, Polly the Pratt admits recent ALP PMs, Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke
and Paul Keating were great as well!
Polly the Parrot
wrote:
> >> Kevin Rudd is the best PM in living memory
> >
> >You were born yesterday?
>
> So, Polly the Pratt admits recent ALP PMs, Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke
> and Paul Keating were great as well!
Idiot child.
I asked "Vote out Brendan Nelson" if he was born yesterday, as he
claims that the Dud is the greatest PM "in living memory".
His life. Get it? No, probably not, too many syllables for you.
PeterN
Oh Polly, you've done it again :)
jg
......
>
> His own party will toss him if he doesn't loose the next election.
>
Yeah that'd be a winning strategy.
jg
term oppositions.
Sir John Howard
KRudd is already a tosser.