Comments on: A lapse in judgement? Or too many barristers?

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:28:58 +0000

with due props to Pollbludger, of course.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:28:14 +0000

Well, the public verdict is in, and they hate Turnbull’s approach. Libs down 2 (61-39), Talcum in freefall decline on PPM to 60-19 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/files/2008/10/essential-report_271008.pdf

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:40:05 +0000

For those of you who didn’t get it I was being ironic/sarcastic or just plain awful @ 22. Comparing Turnbull to Nelson is NOT a compliment.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:42:02 +0000

Also Turnbull was right economically. Kevvie won the week politically. And Kerry O’Brien’s interview in that context increasingly makes the assertion that the ABC is the ALP’s media arm more viable. Turnbull was hammered for being wrong, but fundamentally he was right. Failing to guarantee the big accounts leads to chaos.
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I’m not pointing the finger at Kevvie. I got that wrong too. I got it wrong btw in the context that govt’s are expected to bail out greedy fucks who crash the economy. The same greedy fucks who chant the small govt mantra btw.
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At least Rupert Murdoch’s being honest he’s had his apparatchniks bust spouting the virtues of old-fashioned thrift in his papers. And stressing that the govt needs to hoard its dosh for the next bail-out. Bailing out the banks apparently is the new definition of govt.
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Oh and something about ‘public services’ too.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:36:29 +0000

Arrogance per se doesn’t necessarily mean someone can’t be an effective political leader.
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It’s positively necessary. Isn’t it arrogant to assume you can run a state?

By: paul walter

paul walter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:35:42 +0000

Danny, missed you. Duck irritates you also?

By: paul walter

paul walter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:33:30 +0000

The thing has drifted off thread a bit, but back to Turnbull’s interview with O’Brien, straight after Abetz’ monstrous arrogance; Turnbull was truly set up and left hanging swinging in the breeze for the birds to feed off.
The OZ is either doing dirt on Malcolm on behalf of his factional enemies, or just back to what they have done for fifteen months now without deviation- malicious and utter cock-ups.
It was another one of this legion of right-wing brutes of women they insist on drowning us with- Jennifer Hewitt, I think.
And the Oves was slithering away, somewhere under this dead sheep’s carcass of a botched smear-job, also.
Coonan looked so tiny when Henry boomed back at slimy Abetz’ offensive insinuations.

By: danny

danny — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:16:59 +0000

Back On Topic: It should have been a gift for The Opposition Me. Watching parliament, he was well backed by Bishop being good at being evil, doing the well-briefed barrister thing, but he still fluffs it, gets lost in grammar school Gang of Four junk rhetoric when he should have just focussed on Weakest Link Wayne. ‘Cept maybe he knows that if Wayne had to move on, Tanner would be in the four, and Malcolm doesn’t want that.

By: danny

danny — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:43:15 +0000

Taa Frank for link. Great gravitar BTW. Wake up Steve: "Rats in the Ranks"? I haven't seen it, but the synopsis suggests it's a few steps down from deification. And Geoffrey (Mother&Son)Atherden's Grassroots " exploring the trials and tribulations of ~~Woolongong~~ Acadia Waters Council, where the local politicians dream and scheme, intent on climbing the political ladder through corruption and shady deals." tells it like it probably, unfortunately, and hilariously, is.

By: steve at the pub

steve at the pub — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:09:37 +0000

It’s the ABC Frank, wake me up when there is an ABC docu-drama which does NOT lay the boot into conservative politics, deify the alp, & demonise britain.

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:58:55 +0000

Forgive me for going slightly offtopic, but did anyone catch THe Prime Minister is Missing, regarding the disappearance of Harold Holt, and subsquent relevvations about all sort of scandals involving the Libs and Nats ?

If you missed it, you can watch the streaming video here.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/interactive/pms/ep1/

By: pre-dawn leftist

pre-dawn leftist — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:45:12 +0000

Turnbulls problem seems to be that he really is convinced he’s the smartest guy in every room on the planet. The trouble is, that he aint really. This will be his downfall, and I think its already starting – he (like most of the rest of them) really doesnt have any idea how to deal wit the economic crisis (which I think is why everyone avoided doing anything about preventing it, even though they all could see it coming, but he is trying to convince us that he does. But actually, he is just annoying everyone and looking more like a spanner every day.

I hope this man never becomes Prime Minister – he just doesn’t have it. Fortunately recent days have shown that that eventuality is highly unlikely.

By: Bill Posters

Bill Posters — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:28:32 +0000

His point being that the cap produced a scramble to redeposit funds in guaranteed places. That’s true.

Well, yes, except the funds complaining are mortgage funds and that whole sector has been collapsing for a year and a half anyway. But apart from that, sure.

By: joe2

joe2 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:04:12 +0000

Sorry ’bout that naming mistake GregM.
Whenever I hear the name “Jeff(boofhead)Kennett”, used in any way near a favourable light, I lose all concentration.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:32:54 +0000

Arrogance per se doesn’t necessarily mean someone can’t be an effective political leader. Surely Kennett’s second time around as oppo leader meant that he’d learned how to be effectively arrogant, as opposed to ineffectively arrogant. I’m not convinced Turnbull has that sussed!

By: GregM

GregM — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:30:31 +0000

Greg M, did you miss the part where he was unceremoniously dumped for being a constant,annoying ,dickhead?

That’s Craig Mc’s comment, not mine.

But after his unceremonious dumping for, as you rightly describe, being a constant, annoying dickhead, Alan Brown, a man so colourless as to make Brendan Nelson look charismatic, he led the Liberal Party to a huge victory. Then again Labor under Joan Kirner were so much on the nose that a drover’s dog could have done that.

By: steve at the pub

steve at the pub — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:20:36 +0000

Indeed Mark, however there are enterprises which are paid, say three or four times each year, or even less often, which have a large payroll, and a large number of sub-contractor & suppliers, all of whom are dependant upon weekly payment. (Shipbuilding yard, though not the business I am thinking of, would be a similar scenario, paid by customer once every blue moon, & holds tonnes of cash upon which are dependant not only a lots of welders, clerical & professional staff, but the staff of the baker, milkman etc who supply the canteen, & so on & so forth).

Anybody who works for such an enterprise, or who works for a supplier to such an enterprise, ought to really worry about the cash deposit arrangements of their “godfather”.

By: Craig Mc

Craig Mc — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:13:38 +0000

Greg M, did you miss the part where he was unceremoniously dumped for being a constant,annoying ,dickhead?

I noticed. Sometime after he won two elections I recall.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:05:40 +0000

steve, that had occurred to me, but surely in the case of a small to medium business working capital, as it were, wouldn’t be invested in financial products which are quite difficult to liquidate quickly. The whole point of these accounts is that it’s difficult to get at your money and in return you get a better return than you would get on having it in a more accessible cash account.

Certainly when I’ve worked in businesses in those situations it would only be cash reserves that would be invested for high returns, not the money you need to access on a regular basis.

By: steve at the pub

steve at the pub — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:17:59 +0000

Anyone who believes it is only “rich” people who need to worry about million dollar bank accounts & guarantees thereof has a.. well to not be too blunt, has a Larvartus Prodeo grasp on economics.

Anybody who works for an enterprise which has a payroll of in excess of a million dollars, has plenty of reason to be really stressed. It is your money in that account (or will be on Friday) but you can’t do anything about protecting it.