For Whom The Bell Tolls?
Apparently for Tony Abbott who may be ‘un-Donne’ at a party meeting this coming Tuesday, according to the ABC.
The conservative coalition is very unhappy with the way Abbott is running things. As always, the conservative agenda is fine, but the leadership hasn’t presented it properly or people wouldn’t object. It doesn’t occur to the conservatives that after avoiding the worst of the global meltdown, Australia is now seeing major layoffs and a worsening economic future. In politics it is always ‘the economy, stupid!’
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The Land of Aus seems to be joining the State of Texas in learning that a conservative leader named Abbott without a partner named Costello is not even mildly amusing. At least the Aussies may be doing something about it, however misplaced their assessment of the problem.
Here in TX, OTOH, our Abbott is still on a roll… 🙄 OK, I have the right to say that: I’ve got creds as a cripple, and I was damned surely offended by his commercial in which he rolled around a parking garage bragging about something every disabled person faces, as if Gov. Abbott were something special. What a (BLEEP!)head!
Conservatives just don’t understand the concept of empathy for other people. They function based on belief, not knowledge, and ignore facts that don’t support their beliefs. They should be exiled to an island a meter of sea level and see if they will finally understand the concept of global climate change.
One of the things that really annoyed Australians was giving Prince Phillip a knighthood in the Order of Australia. For some reason a major portion of the people in Australia thought the knighthoods should go to Australia, rather than to someone whose major accomplishment was marrying well. That was the last straw for people who voted for the current government, as well as the Left.
Greg Abbott is just as clueless, but after being elected you can’t really get rid of him. Florida would have probably elected a real Democrat, but the party selected a fake to run.
(Sigh!) I suppose Texans will have Abbott for as long as we had Perry. Then Abbott will begin running for prez again and again, utterly ineffectually…
I wish Florida had elected a real Democrat. About 15 or 20 years ago I had some hope that the DP was finally going somewhere, including even in Texas, and the demographics should have helped us. But nooooo… GOPer gerrymandering took over here, and I suspect I shall one day die in a still wholly Republican world. It didn’t have to turn out that way.
We’re dealing with gerrymandering in Florida, courtesy of the 2000 and 2010 elections. We passed a constitutional amendment to correct the worst of it, but it still hasn’t been fixed. The DP keeps backing Blue Dogs and the real Democrats won’t vote for them. Grayson got elected because he was a real Democrat in a Republican leaning district. The Repubs have gone so far to the right that a large number of Republicans won’t vote for the GOP candidate if there is a real Democrat running. The DP just can’t figure it out.
Hi all. 😀
Actually, we do have a Costello, and he’s a member of the Liberal Party same as Abbott. And yes, most of us think it’s highly amusing, and some of us see the irony. Especially when Costello was appointed chairman of the World Bank’s Independent Advisory Board (IAB) to provide advice on anti-corruption measures! Actually, that was hysterical! 😀
Wiki: Peter Costello
He was the Howard government’s Treasurer, and responsible for introducing the GST (Goods & Services Tax) which Howard swore during his campaign he would never,ever introduce. Those of us living in the real World knew he was lying. He’s a conservative politician. It’s in their genes. All politicians lie of course, but conservatives seem to lie as easily and often as most people breathe. Amazing how they still get elected. I guess there are more fools who would rather believe lies than reality. *shrug*
When conservatives raise taxes they are not called taxes, but fees or revenue enhancements. 😈
Voters never want to hear the truth because it is always bad news. Most voters base their decision on belief not knowledge, and conservatives count on that. Facts are so annoying, so they present the voters with delusions that match their prejudices.
Thanks, Kryten… I’m glad Australian politics is at least amusing! Texas has a long way to go before I can claim that here. (NOTE: in fairness, the late great Molly Ivins did claim that, and wrote her columns so that Texas politics was truly entertaining. I stand corrected. Actually, I sit corrected…)
I’ve been reading retired US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s relatively new book, Six Amendments. One of the six is his proposal for how to at least discourage gerrymandering. Like much of what Stevens says or writes, at least five of the six new constitutional amendments he proposes make good sense, and probably the sixth one as well, but I’m not (yet) qualified to evaluate it. Time for some more reading. I never thought I’d be learning the fundamentals of my own nation’s government in my mid-sixties.
Just over 200 years old and people still can’t agree what the Constitution means. The same people who misunderstand the Constitution claim that a document that is thousands of years old and translated from multiple languages is crystal clear in its meaning. Strange….