3 posts tagged “hockey”

Hockey out on the first vote which wasn't predicted by the pundits leaving Tony to win by 1 vote.

The celebrations have began but the loudest cheers are coming from Labor. Usually the leader starts out popular then gets dragged down by the poor policy. Tony is already "on the nose" so at least he can't fall as far. Of course trying to win an Election is going to be problematic.

Will the remaining small L Liberals get jack of trying to rebuild and think of starting a real Liberal party?

Joe probably make a serious error by offering a free vote but it's still better for him to not take the job just yet.

Meet Nick Minchin.

The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate is currently trying to undermine his Leader, Malcolm Turnbull, in the ETS battle currently in the Senate.

Nick was a Climate Change sceptic, then he suddenly back flipped when John Howard claimed to have seen the light, then he apparently flipped back again but didn't have the courage to declare his 2nd back flip until the last week or two.

Not a good look.

When Voters already suspected he was not truely behind an ETS, he has confirmed their view that he is not a trustworthy individual. Certainly not someone you can trust to run the country the way you want it run even after he pretends to agree with you.

The truth is also suffering under the machinations of Nick and his gang. Loud claims that the Voters are melting down the phones asking him to block the Bill are given the lie by a report in todays Australian, hardly a bastion of Labor support, that an overwhelming number of Coalition Voters want the ETS passed.

The prediction is a loss of 20 seats for the Libs in metro areas which interestingly would remove Turnbull and Hockey from the side of enlightenment and also Andrew Robb and Kevin "Haneef" Andrews from the deniers.

Malcolm Turnbull has it right with the stats and I simply can't understand why the Party is even entertaining a change to an electorally disasterous alternative.

It's hardly rocket science. Do what the Voters want. The fact they are considering doing otherwise suggests the sheltered workshop of Canberra has left them out of touch with the real world.

In a startling admission on a panel discussion Joe Hockey conceded it was a "fair criticism" to say that the Howard government should have saved more revenue during the boom years. He further commented in hindsight, his government would have been better advised to cut back on these tax transfers and put more money aside in funds for upgrading health, education and other infrastructure.

Of course this is no news flash except perhaps in the Opposition ranks, but the immediate reaction was despair from commentators and party hacks who do not understand that refreshing honesty is a valuable commodity in Voter eyes.

Despite the success of Kevin 07 who refused to automatically take the opposing view when Howard tried to force him on to shaky ground, the current Opposition has still failed to grasp the lesson.

I guess they will have to continue believing it's some sort of mythical honeymoon period for Rudd although I would think that line would be wearing thin by now.