the idiot went to work for Yemma right before he got booted?

‘We’ have done nothing, and this is what you get for your trouble .

My recollection, without even an attempt at googling, is that Channel Nine NSW State political reporter Adam Walters was found to have been romantically involved with NSW State Minister Reba Meagher – in most areas this would be called ‘conflict of interest’, not ‘cultivation of journalistic sources’. The positon of the respective parties above-and-below the sheets is a thin but critical ethical line, outside Underbelly.

Then Walters, in the finest tradition of Australian journalistic independence, jumped ship and took a few other Channel Nine colleagues with him to become spin doctors for Morris Iemma. Wow – this is the sort of loyalty and impartiality that investment bankers are most usually famous for .

As a tribute to Walters’ impeccable judgment, he joined Team Iemma just before the Labor caucus swallowed a poo sandwich and booted Iemma to replace him with Leftie Nathan Rees. Now to be fair, who could have seen that one coming, especially a mere State political reporter ??

And today’s revelations in the press suggest two things. It is suggested that Walters thought David Campbell had leaked the story about him and Reba partying into the night while an humble government driver was left cooling his heels in Gov Macquarie Tower all night.

And secondly, Channel Seven has hired Walters to, what – dig up dirt on Labor enemies….?

‘We’ have done nothing to deserve political partisans and hacks whose day jobs masquerade as journalism.

But the owners and managers of these respective organisations have done a dismal job of inculcating any sort of sense of impartiality and ethics into their prima donna employees.

At the end of the day, Walters looks like a miserable political hack. But his various employers look like fools.

I’m not speaking in favour of Rudd’s policies, I’m saying that the Coalition have none of their own. There’s no policy substance in the Coalition whatsoever, other than carping from the sidelines about spending, and Abbott’s Green Armée.

Excellent. Homer, you pay it off. Stop putting your hand in our pockets and asking us to pay it off.

Is it a problem now?

As for Keating, he was a council clerk who spent the 1970s loafing on the Opposition benches collecting clocks. He admits he picked up Howard’s Campbell Report as Treasurer and went from there. Paul Keating is the most overrated phony in Australian political history. As prime minister, he was a coward and a disaster – presiding over the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. His legend rests upon well-rehearsed parliamentary tirades facilitated by Leo McLeay.

the proposal to cut spending was a farce.

Forrest probably dreamt it up.Fancy not knowing the difference between capital and recurrent expenditure.

That is pure forrest

For some reason I thought it was the irritating FDR that was commenting and not you.

The dumphy reference was directed to him of course