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Alexander Downer: a waste of space

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Please, please, please let Alexander Downer’s business proposals bear fruit so that the pompous idiot will leave Parliament.

For some reason, the former Foreign Minister has been over the media today (eg. this paper, and ABC’s Lateline) snivelling that the US of A and it’s lackeys (that would be us) were fully justified invading the sovereign nation of Iraq 5 years ago. Irritating enough given the burning mess left there in our names, but all the more so as Alex is helpfully explaining “why” they went in.

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Change is afoot, but Costello boots himself out the door

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Congratulations to the ALP on finally winning Government again … definitely overtones of Tony Blair’s New Labour victory in 1997, with both the slogan (“New Leadership”) and the roadmap ahead (lots of targets and committees) showing uncanny matches – and even the Spice Girls making a comeback (luckily though, no naff song like D:Ream’s “Things can only get better)

Astonishing too, how quickly the knives came out on the other side; almost as though they’d been holding their breath for the last 12 months and are finally letting the anger just … go …

Costello, of course being number one in the perceived dummy spit stakes. But was he justified?

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Give Labor and Liberal a kick up the behind

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Are you bored of rubbish politicians hogging the airwaves with the same old, same old “vision” every 3 years?Why is it that in a nation of over 21 million, we have just two political parties to choose from?Noticed how alike Labor and Liberal seem to be in pretty much every “policy” they’ve come up with?
eg.

* Protecting the workers … unless they think there’s votes in sucking up to business.
* Opposing Capital punishment … unless they think there’s votes in saying someone deserves it
* Saving the environment … unless they think there’s votes in someone destroying it (eg. Tasmania)

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