Excrutiatingly …. slow ….. and ….. painful

Why ……………….. does ………………… Tony ………………… Abbott …………………. talk …………………. in ………………….. excrutiatingly ………….. slow …………………. and …………………… painful ……………. sentences ……………… ?

Why are we paying for Holden?

Why are we taxpayers paying for a company that cannot survive without subsidies?

Is it because they employ good Labor voters? Is it because the jobs saved are paying union dues that go to Labor to fight elections?

Where is the Labor government when small business and farmers go under? Where you say? I can’t hear you!

‘Rudd the magician’

The Prime Minister fancies himself as a bit of a magician.

Mr Rudd will have us believe that the enormous debt Labor has racked up is not really a problem. His logic is that our net per capita debt is one of the lowest compared to other nations.

Well Mr Rudd, how many $billions is that and how long will it take Australian taxpayers to pay it back?

‘Rudd the magician’ may want to pull a rabbit out of his hat on this issue but he’ll be confronted by an Abbott, and that won’t do him any good.

Kevin’s ten minutes of infamy

“You will have ten minutes. We will have a stop watch.”

A Labor Party advertising agency has been trying to convince various digital youth media that a ten minute interview with Kevin Rudd will interest their audience. But they will only have ten minutes. And there are conditions.

As part of the deal, the media will be ‘encouraged’ to provide inventory on their site for youth-focused election advertising and editorial, produce entertaining content on the theme of the inadequacy of the Liberal NBN plan, and provide access to pro-Labor and pro-NBN talent.

Of course, “The PM will not review the questions/discussion guide”, but the advertising agency will.

I wonder if these questions would make the interview?

With all the cuts to university funding, will students be able to finish their courses?

With so many delays to the NBN, what’s the benefit if it never reaches homes before it’s outdated?

A lot of our readers cannot find a job, and it’s got worse since you were first Prime Minister. Are you really capable of fixing that?

And now that our ten minutes are almost up, aren’t massive cuts to spending and rises in taxation the only solution to paying back the massive government debt you incurred, thereby denying our readers opportunities in the future?

If they get an answer to one question from the Prime Minister in that time they will be lucky.

The Labor Party has denied all knowledge of the advertising agency brief to the media. LOL!

Still no effective response from the opposition leader

While the Prime Minister runs around the country like Caesar celebrating a triumph, there is still no effective response from the opposition leader.

Time is running out Mr Abbott. Stop faffing around and really serve it up to Kevin Rudd. Otherwise, Labor will continue in government because you have no hope of winning the election on current form.

The seven votes Kevin got could be up for grabs

There are probably seven Labor MPs who regret they supported Kevin Rudd for Leader of the Labor Party, against Julia Gillard.

His proposed nobbling of any future vote against a leader in a leadership ballot is going to cause a lot of friction in the Labor caucus. It will in effect take away any real power an individual has.

The caucus vote on this issue will take place next week. That may be an opportunity for a re-think and the call for another leadership ballot.

Now they’ve had another taste of Mr Rudd, Labor MPs may prefer electoral wipeout to another three years of his smug, dictatorial and didactic leadership.

Think about the homeless, especially when it rains

There’s a lot of chatter going on about politics at the moment, and almost all the people involved in it have a roof over their head tonight. A night when it’s raining and cold.

Now think about the homeless people who aren’t so fortunate. They are probably huddled under an awning or a makeshift cardboard roof, freezing and hungry.

When you vote, think about whether your vote will elect someone who will make their lives better.

Abbott should have called Rudd’s bluff

When the Prime Minister challenged Tony Abbott for a debate on the economy, Mr Rudd said ‘any time, anywhere’.

Mr Abbott should have called his bluff and accepted the challenge immediately, and I mean immediately. He should have said that he would meet him at the Press Club that day for the debate, or first thing the next morning if the challenge was made at night. The media would have turned up willingly and it would have been on.

The Prime Minister would have been caught off guard and Mr Abbott could have stopped Mr Rudd in his tracks. But I suspect Mr Abbott wasn’t ready either, because debating the economy is not his strength, or so we’re led to believe.

Take the gloves off, Tony!

Now the sisterhood has lost its cheerleader, it’s time for Tony Abbott to take the gloves off and take on Kevin Rudd.

Man to man. No perceived sexism. No false misogyny.

Kevin Rudd has no policies, yet he is sucking the air out of the debate. Please Tony, go after him and go after him hard. Otherwise you will be left on the sideline grasping for breath.