Ruddy-made excuses

Stuck in a pickle and not sure what to say when someone is asking you the hard questions?

Why not use the Liberal’s handy Ruddy-made Excuse Generator?

Too ruddy funny…

Paul Murray calls it as he sees it… and I agree

It’s a pity that more people don’t subscribe to Foxtel and more the pity that more people don’t watch SkyNews, in particular PM Live, because Paul Murray often nails it.

Yesterday’s editorial is smack bang on the money about the sycophantic coverage afforded to Kevin Rudd, contrasted with the never ending gotcha hunting of Tony Abbott’s every utterance.

I seriously cannot bring myself to watch commercial TV and I gave up on the ALPBC years ago.

The sooner this farce of an election is over the better.

A cancer on democracy… or at least it used to be when someone else did it. Not now though….

Kevni Jong Ill has been pretty busy over the past few weeks, flitting here, there and everywhere trying to be everything to everyone.

It turns out that being everything to everyone is pretty hard, especially when most of your announcements are nothing more than poorly considered thought bubbles such as the PNG “solution” and changes to FBT governance.

The one thing that is clear as a pair of bollocks on a red kangaroo is that Kevin Rudd is a political chameleon like no other that we have seen.

A shockingly duplicitous individual who will say and do anything that will garner him support from whomever he is talking to at that moment, whether that support be timeless as the rising of the sun or as fleeting as a snowflake in hell.

Back in 2007 Kevin Rudd appeared on ABC’s 7:30 Report as Opposition Leader in the lead up to the election and made his position on Government advertising very clear, stating unequivocally that he considered it to be:

..a sick cancer within our system, It’s a cancer on democracy.

Fast forward to 2013,  Rudd is trying to con the Australian public, again, by saying one thing when it suits him and doing another later on, again when it suits his weathervane like persona.

Contrary to many years of bipartisan Parliamentary tradition, Labor has decided to ignore the Caretaker Conventions which came into affect on Monday when the election was formalised to continue its $30 million advertising campaign that promotes it’s PNG “solution” not only overseas but also, more importantly, here in Australia.

There is no concern over the international advertising for that is where the “asylum seekers” are coming from but there is concern that the domestic advertising cannot adequately be expected to be targeted solely at the families of potential asylum seekers already residing in Australia.

Instead many have argued that the key demographic that the ads are aiming at are low information swinging voters living in Australia’s marginal electorates, most notably in Western Sydney which is a key area of resettlement for refugees and immigrants alike.

In my opinion that is not an unrealistic assumption and plays a large part in Labor’s strategy on PNG.  They don’t really want to stop the boats, they just want to get the votes.

Once that pesky election is over then Labor most likely will flip 180 degrees again and do exactly the opposite to what it expressly promised, just as Peter Garrett infamously admitted prior to winning office.

Under the caretaker conventions, the Government is required to consult with the Opposition over taxpayer-funded advertising.

News.com.au reports that Tony Abbott on Monday wrote to the Prime Minister and urged him to “cease immediately” taxpayer funded advertising, but this has been ignored by the Government.

The Coalition’s shadow attorney-general George Brandis labelled the decision as a

..flagrant breach of the caretaker convention.  This is a scandal. The Government has openly trashed the caretaker conventions

Scott Morrison, the Coalition’s immigration spokesman, also echoed Brandis’ sentiments and said legal action was “under consideration“.

In meantime, the Liberals have launched a petition to try and force the Government to reconsider its decision by weight of public pressure.

In an obvious effort to cause Lefty heads to explode everywhere over another three word slogan, the Liberals have cheekily dubbed the petition Stop the Ads. Voice your concern by adding your name to the petition.

And lest you forget, every illegal boat that enters Australian waters has several impacts;

1. Displacing other refugees from accessing Australia’s substantial humanitarian immigration program
2. Risk to life and limb for people who come from lands where most have never seen the water let alone know how to swim
3. Sideline critical Defence resources from doing their real roles
4. Force people into mandatory detention here in Australia and overseas
5. Contribute to Australia’s continuing Budget blowouts, over $10.8 billion since 2007

Dear Leader’s carbon neutral energy policy

Courtesy of Samuel J over at Catallaxy Files comes this great find, exclusive footage of Kevni Jong Il announcing his new carbon neutral energy policy for Australia. (Slight language warning)

Classic! Best impersonation of Dear Leader that I have seen yet.

Funny thing is, it’s not too far from the truth!

Kev the Survivor of Kokoda

Our Dear Leader, Kev Jong Il is one tough, resilient bloke.  He’s been everywhere and done everything, man… even surviving the infamous Kokoda Track.

I’m sure that my grandfather and his mates really appreciated his input while fighting the Japanese on the Track during World War II.

I think our Dear Leader might have even nursed my dear old Pop through the bout of dysentery that almost finished him off while he was lying in the jungles of PNG.

Fair dinkum, could this bloke be any more insulting to the memory of the many Diggers that fought and died valiantly in PNG jungles or returned home as mere shadows of the men that they used to be than to insinuate that he too was a “survivor of the Kokoda Track” “way back then“?

Kevin Rudd isn’t fit to even polish the boots or carry the rucksacks of those indomitable heroes that protected our country, our values and our way of life from the invading Japanese army during those dark days in 1942.

He’d be lucky to be even mentioned in the same breath as those heroes of World War II.

Much like his narcissistic ego, his effrontery knows no bounds.

 

Vale William Bertrum Gilbert II – RIP Pop x

If you can’t govern yourselves, then you can’t govern the country

If this is what his own team say about him what does it say about them now that they elected him leader of the ALP again? Are they hypocrites or just shameless carpetbaggers protecting their cushy sinecures?

How can Australian’s have such a short memory to have forgotten that Rudd was a dismal failure the first time around?

Is it our diet of Big Brother and Masterchef that has rotted our collective brains? Flooded by a diet of vacuous narcissists vying to be popular for popular’s sake we have forgotten to question actual performance and efficacy.

Is it a left leaning media’s obsession with the banal utterings on Twitter that has masked the feelings of the silent majority with the faux outrage of the Perpetually Offended and Outraged (POOs)?

We have been hoodwinked into thinking that a 30 second trend by 1% of people on a platform that has less than 10% of the population participating is indicative of how the wider community feels.

Wake up Australia, our future is calling.

Rudd’s record

Finally, after several weeks of Kev Jong Il poncing around the country, the Liberals have launched their Rudd Offensive.

Part one of a series of TV adverts that begins today illustrates quite clearly that Dear Leader is the prime architect of the majority of Labor’s ill fated policies, policies that have brought us nothing but pain, now and into the future.

He’s not the messiah, he’s just a puffed up egomaniac who is unfit to govern.

Election now please.

Take your time

Bill Leak – The Australian

Rumblings about Gillard being deposed

This just in from Andrew Bolt and The Australian.

Following discussion this morning on The Insiders, there are fresh rumours that Julia Gillard may be about to be deposed in favour of Kevin Rudd.

PM replaced before election?

Key backers, rumoured to include Bill “I support whatever the Prime Minister says even though I dont know what she said” Shorten, are said to be “wobbling” in their support, especially given the rock star reception afforded Kevni when he visited Geelong on Friday.

Could Labor possibly be prepared to swap back to the man they described as a raging, psychopathic egomaniac?

Would the voting public be so stupid to vote back in a man said to be so dysfunctional that no one wanted to work with him?

Personally, I would like nothing better than to see the back of Julia Gillard, but I desperately would like the voting public afforded the chance to send her on her way themselves, not another coup by Labor’s Faceless Men.

Watching Gillard deliver her speech conceding the election to Abbott would be priceless and worth every second of the 98 days that we would have to endure until that delicious moment could eventuate.

Labor Lemons

The Liberals clearly aren’t wasting any time addressing the ALP’s constant leadership speculation, with a remix of their “Kevin O Lemon” advert from several years ago.

With the election not too far away and with Labor’s continual policy failures such as Nicola Roxon’s Discrimination and Human Rights Bill and Stephen Conroy’s recent Media Regulation Bill, the Liberals will barely even have to try to write their upcoming campaign adverts.

Labor is just too good at illustrating exactly how bad they are themselves on a daily basis now.

It really doesn’t matter who’s actually at the helm of the ALP, because their policies are clearly what’s hurting this country.