While you & a smattering of small tim acolytes still bang the bully drum, the punters have moved on Obby, all pumped on all justice & a fair go. Stick your head out into the smoko room. It’s 2007, Guantanamo may have been a good idea for a year or two, but it’s been as out-dated as a Howard Vision of the Future for a while now.

When the Herald Sun letters page is regularly choked with letters demanding Hicks gets a fair go, there’s been a crossover Obby old chap.

The US military commission prosecutors and Hicks’ defence lawyers now have to thrash out a plea agreement, with the judge setting a deadline of 6am (AEST) on Tuesday, which is expected to spell out what sentence he will serve.

From Obby’s link above.

I’m amazed if Hicks has indeed pled guilty before knowing the tariff he’s going to cop.

BTW Obby, you’re still weird.

1. Not so long ago Hicks was facing a charge of attempted murder. What was the truth value of that charge, hmmm? Should Hicks have pled guilty to that charge?

2. Maybe Hicks could have been induced to pleading guilty to shooting from the Grassy Knoll. This would have cleared up a very perplexing mystery very neatly for the US authorities.

A week’s a long time in politics as they say eh steve?.

Incompetence showing up at this level is not a good look. Howard had the chance to hand over to Costello last year but couldn’t. He had another chance this year when he had the first reshuffle and bkinked again. Now it is too late and he will go down in history as a failure who was too greeedy to quit while he was ahead. Eleven squandered years will be his legacy to Australia.

Workchoices is just an ideological obsession of Howard’s which is over the top and everybody knows it. Interest rates have mainly come about from inflationary pressure due to the higher oil prices flowing from the Iraq fiasco and poorly targeted tax cuts in successive budgets.

The drought has also had an impact and so far the Federal Government have done very little to help pay for fixing the dwindling water supply to Brisbane.

Housing affordability expressed as increasing rental costs and worsening home ownership affordability have also not been addressed by this government.

So there is much to be done and probably not enough time for them to do much aboout their intractable problems. Open warfare has broken out in the Queensland Liberal factions and it is getting sillier every day.

Voters will not tolerate this level of disunity and while I encourage them to fight at every opportunity, each day means their chances of reelection diminish and this is a good thing. If they can’t govern themselves then they can’t govern Australia and do not desrve to either.

Now we have got a higher Australian dollar and the Current Account figures will be blowing out even more. We are importiing heaps; exporting little. Good economic manager they are not, fools? – definately.