Kevin Rudd has resigned as Foreign Minister. Looks like he’ll challenge next week.
Update: Centrebet and Sportsbet have shut down the ALP leader market and the election timing market.
Update II: Audio of resignation here.
(HT: John Bergin on Twitter)
Update III: Leadership ballot on Monday morning.
Good riddance
Mike of Marion
22 Feb 12 at 5:33 pm
2nd worst PM. Worst Foreign Minister. I still hope he prevails next week.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 5:35 pm
Has DFAT withdrawn its support since he is in Washington DC?
Samuel J
22 Feb 12 at 5:36 pm
I hope he retires and forces a by-election.
FM
22 Feb 12 at 5:36 pm
Rudd:
I will never be a party to a stealth attack on a sitting Prime Minister.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 5:37 pm
What’s the policy change he’ll announce to win votes and – importantly when will he announce it?
I expect a carbon tax deferrment rather than a price drop and the announcement Sunday or Monday
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 5:37 pm
HAHAHA
ABC24 announcer very excited about all this. Called the PM “Julia Rudd”.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 5:39 pm
Recall that she kept KR on as Foreign Minister following the election because of fear that he would resign from the HoR. That calculus hasn’t changed. If Rudd loses the leadership ballot, he will probably resign from Parliament, leading to a bi-election and the loss of Griffith to the LNP.
Samuel J
22 Feb 12 at 5:39 pm
With Slipper’s defection they can afford to lose a seat, can’t they?
m0nty
22 Feb 12 at 5:41 pm
He’ll resign only if he gets less than 30 votes or if he knows that he will
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 5:41 pm
He didn’t look like a Happy Little Vegemite.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 5:42 pm
This is a fake crisis, engineered by the MAD MONK Tony Abbot’s relentless negativity.
.
22 Feb 12 at 5:43 pm
Fake crisis closer to being resolved!
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 5:43 pm
K Rudd
MaryT
22 Feb 12 at 5:43 pm
Fantastic drama. Although I do note that production costs of this little soap opera are now over $200 billion. Even James Cameron would feel a little ill looking at those numbers.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 5:44 pm
It’s not over ’til the fat lady sings, Steve. And Gillard is saying nothing at the moment.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 5:44 pm
I thought he was positively joyful, Gab.
2am – that’s Kruddy playing his cards to win not a loser caving in
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 5:44 pm
Geez, when did you work that out !?
MaryT
22 Feb 12 at 5:45 pm
With Slipper’s defection they can afford to lose a seat, can’t they?
Rudd resigning would lose them a seat, and lead to the LNP gaining one. Slipper was merely just a -1 to the LNP.
Quentin George
22 Feb 12 at 5:46 pm
Typical Rudd passive-aggressiveness …
Poor me, attacked by “faceless men”, not supported by the PM. Only want what is best for the ALP, etc. etc.
Honestly, one would almost believe he hasn’t been trying to destablise the government since the day he was deposed.
Matt
22 Feb 12 at 5:47 pm
Actually Gab, that’s a partial quote. The full one is:
“There is no way I will ever be party to a stealth attack on a sitting prime minister who was elected by the people.”
Double ouch!
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 5:47 pm
Lefty Kim on LP
jtfsoon
22 Feb 12 at 5:48 pm
JamesK he said at the start that he is sad. I believe him.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 5:48 pm
I blame the MAD MONK Tony Abbot and his relentless negativity.
.
22 Feb 12 at 5:49 pm
Slipper was a -1 to the LNP but it also allowed Jenkins to be a +1 to the ALP.
m0nty
22 Feb 12 at 5:50 pm
Any guess what PM Rudd will do with his Yarralumla mansion, or if he will err and call himself the Foreign Minister?
.
22 Feb 12 at 5:50 pm
What vote will Kruddy need to get for the result to be seen as a rejection by the Australian people of the Opposition Leader Mr Abbott’s relentless negativity?
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 5:51 pm
Either way, it’s Yabbot’s fault!
.
22 Feb 12 at 5:52 pm
Now this is not the end.
It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
H/T some dead old pommy.
Pickles
22 Feb 12 at 5:53 pm
The score so far:
Relentless Negativity 2.
Labor Party nil.
lotocoti
22 Feb 12 at 5:54 pm
These are halcyon days for the ALP. Soon they’ll be as popular as the Australian Democrats.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 5:54 pm
Judith Sloan on ABCNews24!
m0nty
22 Feb 12 at 5:54 pm
So Kruddy gets less than 30 and resigns and the Coalition wins the by-election.
Andrew Wilkie – really the young Lezzo – might be called on to show cojones.
Could he possibly rise to the challenge?
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 5:56 pm
Regardless, Rudd’s resignation would leave Julia dependent on the support of ALL of the following: Wilkie, Bandt, Oakeshott, Windsor and Slipper. True, all have an agenda in putting off the inevitable election drubbing, but only one of them needs to be crazy/brave enough to blink.
Quentin George
22 Feb 12 at 5:58 pm
The Coalition ought to make a deal with Oakeshitt.
Oakeshitt is the key.
.
22 Feb 12 at 5:59 pm
Windsor interviewed on Sky News – sounds like a blithering fool….
ar
22 Feb 12 at 6:01 pm
Gillard can sing?
Lloyd
22 Feb 12 at 6:02 pm
If nothing else think of the savings in air fares.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 6:03 pm
According to Sara Palin, Rudd is about to declare war on Iran and Israel.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 6:03 pm
Judith is having what they used to say in the classics was “a gay old time”.
m0nty
22 Feb 12 at 6:04 pm
There is something just soooo wrong about an Australian foreign minister resigning on foreign soil.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 6:07 pm
Yes, Peter. Only the ALP can make this embarrassing soap opera go international.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 6:09 pm
2am resignation. Just in time for the 6pm news bulletin.
If only this evil machine had put this effort into effective policy.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 6:10 pm
How can he be “publicly attacked” by “faceless” men?
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 6:10 pm
Well, if Newman can challenge for the Qld Premier from out of Parliament there’s no reason why Rudd shouldn’t take this first step from foreign soil.
Lloyd
22 Feb 12 at 6:11 pm
Rudd does seem to have a high opinion of himself claiming that the situation was affecting business confidence. Maybe the carbon tax and MRRT did that which were your ideas Rudd. Now in the US it will be the joke in diplomatic circles for a while that if an Australian says they are the foreign minister it is best to check.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 6:12 pm
lol… good point.
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 6:12 pm
Cor blimey, no wonder I’m a thousand kilo’s overweight. I’ve never eaten so much popcorn!
Kevni Ruff… the gift that keeps on giving.
Gibbo
22 Feb 12 at 6:14 pm
Lloyd
Fuck me, you are clearly an Olympian analogist! Not!
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 6:15 pm
Now Krudd is a back bencher does that mean he flies back in cattle class?
Token
22 Feb 12 at 6:15 pm
I think the great, great negotiator is gone. She may survive the ballot next week, but one way or another Boganville in the Lodge is pretty much over.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 6:15 pm
Peter, I was being ironic.
Lloyd
22 Feb 12 at 6:18 pm
He was a terrible Foreign Minister anyway. Even the US tells countries when they put trade sanctions on other countries our Rudd didn’t even call Indonesia when we cut off the cattle trade. Maybe he didn’t know but you would think someone would tell him.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 6:20 pm
Patton, in the context that you think the Greeks invented homosexuality…
I’m really sorry.
.
22 Feb 12 at 6:21 pm
Ruff has at least 40 votes and counting, he may yet prevail next week…
Rabz
22 Feb 12 at 6:21 pm
No confidence motion , says Spears.
Good idea.
Jumpnmcar
22 Feb 12 at 6:22 pm
Reality says Krudd’s challenge will fail this time and will cause havoc on the back bench.
I trust the Orange Vuvuzela will continue feed the challenge with ongoing cock ups.
Token
22 Feb 12 at 6:22 pm
Joe Ludwig rat fucked him.
.
22 Feb 12 at 6:23 pm
Very droll, dot, very droll. Except I have never said anything like that.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 6:23 pm
And Anna Blight is even fuckeder. Hahahaha
Jumpnmcar
22 Feb 12 at 6:24 pm
This is as funny as a hatful of deep fried monkey arseholes.
Lefty heads exploding all over the net, a government its fondest supporters describe as a screaming shambles, midnight political assassinations, machinations, flagellations and masturbations, a first term PM knifed, the knife-wielding lard-arsed ranga showing she’s only good to redefine the very meaning of incompetent, hundreds of billions wasted, the IR and economic reforms of the Hawke, keating and Howard governments rolled back….
and the appalling rockshow is not over yet.
Unbelievable.
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 6:24 pm
I think Rudd took the opportunity as Foreign Minister to get to the US for a final interview for his United Nations position.
Since he has resigned, he must have been offered a job at the UN.
Samuel J
22 Feb 12 at 6:25 pm
haha
pete m
22 Feb 12 at 6:27 pm
What sort of egotistical, self-regarding up-himself prick resigns over (what he claims is) a point of honour while overseas representing his country?
The truly honourable thing to do would be to suck it up until you got home and make your announcement then.
Give me Gillard over Rudd any day. Gillard may be a pathological liar but at least she appears to have some interest in something other than herself. For Rudd – it is about him all the time.
Matt
22 Feb 12 at 6:27 pm
“appalling rockshow is not over yet.”
It has raised my hopes slightly that we could have an election before the carbon tax starts. Because once it is in the welfare is difficult to roll back.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 6:27 pm
Mk – it’s been beautiful in its ugliness.
Sinclair Davidson
22 Feb 12 at 6:28 pm
When is this entire abominable, idiotic farce going to be brought to a long overdue end?
FFS, this is how the Libs used to behave back in the eighties, but at least they were in opposition.
A no confidence motion could indeed be the go – more Yabbott negativity!
Rabz
22 Feb 12 at 6:28 pm
Oleaginous Oaksey on 9News has written Rudd off.
I loathe Kruddy but I hope he actually challlnges and gets 40 plus just to show up that nauseating plonker
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 6:30 pm
Ask the old lezzo and his beautiful assistant, Oakenshitt.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 6:31 pm
Hope it goes on until Oct 2013. It’s like watching a train wreck in motion.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 6:32 pm
Heh… Bligh is probably thinking, “Yeah… thanks for that helping hand Kevin”
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 6:33 pm
Windsor hinted that maybe the Australian people should settle the issue. Sounds like he may be prepared to pull the plug – or else it is a warning to Labor MPs to vote for Gillard … or else.
Viva
22 Feb 12 at 6:35 pm
Well, I hate to say it, but come back Mark Latham, all is forgiven!
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 6:35 pm
Gab, this debacle has cost over $200 billion. We can’t afford to keep watching this show.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 6:35 pm
Gab
At $100 million a day I hope you are getting good entertainment I want them gone yesterday not watching them for another year and a half.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 6:36 pm
Gab,
I too would be laughing it up if these cretins weren’t destroying our country…
Rabz
22 Feb 12 at 6:36 pm
You both say that like I’m bashing the credit card.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 6:37 pm
We are paying either way Kelly. We may as well try get some pleasure as the debt will take a long time to pay off.
Token
22 Feb 12 at 6:37 pm
Come back Gough, all is forgiven!
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 6:37 pm
“but come back Mark Latham, all is forgiven”
Reading his editorials from time to time he doesn’t seem so bad actually (unless you are a Labor politician).
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 6:37 pm
Gillard was playing her pair of two’s as if Rudd had a 2 and a 7. Now he’s rat-fucked her by going all-in.
Rudds a narcissistic twat, but what a move. And well done to the poster, Rabz???, who asked what price Rudd to return early from overseas. Possibly the only person who saw it coming.
Harrys on the Boat
22 Feb 12 at 6:38 pm
Always assume the worse with that villainous skunk. If Rudd wins there will more likely bean early elections, so the old lezzo loses his seat. The slapper is going nowhere until the last day and therefore the scumbag stays on.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 6:38 pm
Wonder if Abbott will put up a no confidence motion on Monday?
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 6:39 pm
Yep. Nothing to lose.
Sinclair Davidson
22 Feb 12 at 6:40 pm
Parliament is not ’til Tuesday
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 6:40 pm
Craig Emerson is Foreign Minister? Jules must want him out of the country too.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 6:41 pm
I wonder if he’s taken some dead Chinaman to heart: I would rather betray the world than allow the world to betray me.
lotocoti
22 Feb 12 at 6:43 pm
Watching ABC24 they’re still taliking up Gillard’s achievements. It’s like being in the Twilight Zone.
Lloyd
22 Feb 12 at 6:44 pm
Watching ABC24 they’re still taliking up Gillard’s achievements. It’s like being in the Twilight Zone.
Lloyd
22 Feb 12 at 6:44 pm
Yes Lefty Kim, Julia is a victim of misogyny. Strange how people want equality on one hand and don’t on the other.
Nic
22 Feb 12 at 6:44 pm
Windsor won’t pull the issue; he and Oakshotte are too self serving
val majkus
22 Feb 12 at 6:45 pm
No, we’re the victims of her incompetence and raving leftwing lunacy.
STFU Kim.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 6:45 pm
Must be time for Jules to do another Women’s Weekly spread.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 6:46 pm
Does this mean he has to fly back from DC cattle class?
Les Majesty
22 Feb 12 at 6:46 pm
Jessica Rudd on twitter “Effing proud of you dad” So lay off on Gillard being a bogan and look at the Rudd family.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 6:47 pm
Somehow, I doubt it.
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 6:47 pm
I’ve already predicted she will be doing a spread for Picture Magazine’s December issue.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 6:47 pm
Yes, Lloyd. very annoying and sad seeing those people walking around with their heads up their respective butts.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 6:47 pm
He’s worth about $80 mill! He could buy the bloody plane if he wanted.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 6:48 pm
Time to send Timbo down to Michael Hill.
lotocoti
22 Feb 12 at 6:48 pm
Bloody Abbott… how could he let this happen?
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 6:49 pm
About 3 minutes of fame left.
Nic
22 Feb 12 at 6:50 pm
As per usual, all talk is of the ALP. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’re the only game in town for most, apart from the Greens and the colourful, infuriating or whatever Independents. Katter is a barrel and therefore a goodym by definition.
The Libs not even on the political radar. Abbott a lost cause.
That’s not good.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 6:52 pm
I’m sure Therese would wire him the money.
Viva
22 Feb 12 at 6:54 pm
Hope Gillard goes. I’d rather listen to a self-serving egomaniac with a normal accent than that chainsaw ripping through metal screech that is Gillard.
My ears have taken enough abuse.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 6:54 pm
Rudd says:
Barrie Cassidy on 17 Feb:
Rudd is a brazen liar.
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 6:56 pm
Julia Gillard is now going to announce her resignation.
Samuel J
22 Feb 12 at 6:56 pm
Rudd has been studying Shakespeare, that’s a given.
His hubris and timing are equally exquisite, regardless of the outcome.
Gotta love a man with balls. He’s a study in contrast to the yellow-bellied Costello, that’s for sure.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 6:56 pm
Bob
Stick to your anti-smoking analysis (it’s a waste of time). You’re a far better tobacco analyst than a political one.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 6:56 pm
Fair shake of the sauce bottle Gab.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 6:56 pm
lol
JC
22 Feb 12 at 6:58 pm
Please tell me that’s not mere speculation
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 6:58 pm
I hate it when Mum and Dad fight.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 6:58 pm
Bob, you are a pissweak troll.
Necktie – ladies’ room – pronto.
Les Majesty
22 Feb 12 at 6:59 pm
Amen.
Lloyd
22 Feb 12 at 6:59 pm
11 years of stable Governance compared to this shit?
.
22 Feb 12 at 6:59 pm
Steve, Rudd’s comments are not necessarily a contradiction in terms. He can have sincerely meant what he said on both occasions, that is the whole point.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 7:00 pm
Gab:
My wife just read that and said “better than a Penthouse spread”. Then she wandered off giggling.
She knew what that’d do to me.
I am just heading out to the shed to soak my brain in bleach to rid myself of the hideous imagery….
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:01 pm
As far as I am concerned Gillard did not lie. It’s at worst a promise broken in spirit. (It’s not really a carbon tax that is coming in, but an introductory fixed price.)
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:02 pm
In which case, Mrs mk50 and I had the same evil thought. lol
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 7:02 pm
If Juliar really wants to screw Krudd over, she could call a snap election.
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:02 pm
Yes, Steve, this is all about you.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 7:03 pm
Rudd’s a dick, always has been always will be. He’s a narcissistic mentally deranged dick, however would not have been involved in pushing a race riot like the slapper.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:03 pm
Hi Mrs Mk!
.
22 Feb 12 at 7:04 pm
On that happy day I’ll lay on the Montecristos.
Bob can hand them out.
lotocoti
22 Feb 12 at 7:04 pm
Kevin Rudd has resigned as Foreign Minister.
Bad news for anyone who wants to go to war with Japan and/or India.
Adrien
22 Feb 12 at 7:04 pm
Bob: Rudd could readily have ended the “soap opera” by:
* not privately briefing journalists to their face about his big secret regain the leadership strategy
* telling his supporters in public – “guys, I’m flattered by your thinking about me, but really, this is damaging the party and I will not be part of a challenge to Julia Gillard in this term.”
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:05 pm
Seriously, Stepford, who gives a shit what you think.
She broke her pledge one day before the election you dick and so did Shane Wand.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:05 pm
Tuesdays no confidence motion may become a ” convoy of no confidence ” How will Rudd vote( if he shows up)? Indys ( gross mismanagement ) ?Slipper ( casting vote )?.
Swan is in a fetal position spluttering ” whose arse will i be licking next week”
Jumpnmcar
22 Feb 12 at 7:05 pm
“I will not be part of a challenge to Julia Gillard in this term.”
When the challenge comes it will be I am doing this for the good of the country.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 7:06 pm
His first year…wasn’t that bad.
However, he was a shitfight after this, beginning with collecting revenue without the requisite legislation (intentionally, unlike Roxon/Mc Clelland/Julia all forgetting to get royal assent).
Julia has always been a shitfight.
.
22 Feb 12 at 7:07 pm
In a fetal position I would be guessing his own, as that’s all there’s left for the moron.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:07 pm
His own for $20 notes. He will be out of a job soon, when Holy Billy is Treasurer.
.
22 Feb 12 at 7:08 pm
Perhaps a tagteam spread with Cheryl Kernot?
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/07/30/1225899/081686-cheryl-kernot.jpg
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 7:09 pm
The ALP need to get rid of Swan. He is the millstone around their neck.
.
22 Feb 12 at 7:09 pm
hehehe Gillard did not see the wrecking ball heading straight for her noggon. Splat!
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 7:10 pm
So we’ll have how many weeks of bullshit until this ship finally goes belly up?
Adrien
22 Feb 12 at 7:11 pm
The ALP need to get rid of Swan. He is the millstone around their neck.
Impossible. He’s got more incriminating files than J. Edgar.
Adrien
22 Feb 12 at 7:12 pm
Or tits up; depending on who goes.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 7:13 pm
Shane really is the Rodney Dangerfield of Australian politics. No one, no one ever affords him even a smidgeon of respect.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:13 pm
“The ALP need to get rid of Swan. He is the millstone around their neck.”
Dot
There is only one member of the ALP executive that is fit to be in government Martin Ferguson and if you can name another let me know.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 7:13 pm
He is funny
Rodney D
” I called suicide prevention. They tried to talk me into it”
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:14 pm
Steve, of course Rudd didn’t end the soap opera according to your terms and conditions.
And why should he and how could he?
He’s a central character in the soap opera of national political life, and a feisty, persistent and devious one.
Historians and philosophers will observe the theatrics with fascination and guffaws and let the envious and shallow gossips, courtiers and partisans judge and condemn like they are always prone to do.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 7:17 pm
To date 1,185 articles on ” Rudd resigns ” on google news, Rueters, New York Times, Guardian ……..
FMD, Hes really gone GLOBAL.
Jumpnmcar
22 Feb 12 at 7:17 pm
Yep, Jump. Rudd knows how to throw a party.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 7:19 pm
I thought the former AG (before the Slapper impaled him and decided to give it Emily’s Lister, Fraulein von Roxon) was an adult.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:19 pm
Jump
So he finally put Australia on the map.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 7:19 pm
Flowery language for a mere Tobacco anal(syst), Bobster. you’re out doing even yourself.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:21 pm
New York Times reports:
Could you imagine the NYT‘s reaction if Hilary Clinton resigned in a press conference from Canberra?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/world/asia/kevin-rudd-resigns-as-australias-foreign-minister.html?hp
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 7:22 pm
Dial it down a tad you freebasing, cross dressing, whack job.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 7:22 pm
Ha ha! Rudd attacks the “faceless men”. Rudd and Abbott reading from the same script.
Fisky
22 Feb 12 at 7:23 pm
JC
While you are probably right for what, one and a half sentances? Nonetheless it seems that English is not one of your core competancies.
MaryT
22 Feb 12 at 7:23 pm
I’m guessing he felt he had no choice – ie, that he was going to get shafted while his flight was in the air and couldn’t respond… Best defense is offense and all that.
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 7:24 pm
You’re rather dull as a commenter, MaryBob.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 7:24 pm
Um yes, sentances…
.
22 Feb 12 at 7:25 pm
…and enchelons.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 7:26 pm
Anyone else suspect that Metro might be on this thread?
Fisky
22 Feb 12 at 7:26 pm
Fuck off Mazza.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:27 pm
Fuck off Mazza and take Tobacco Bob with you.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:27 pm
Bruce Hawker doing his Rudd boosterism on ABC News.
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:28 pm
Or, fuck off Phil and take Metro with you.
Fisky
22 Feb 12 at 7:29 pm
Fisky;
Yea, good point. I think the carbon Slave is back again. You can sort of get that peculiar skunk whiff of the unwashed boofhead.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:29 pm
For a bunch of faceless men, there have been a lot of faces on TV dissing Rudd in the last week.
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:30 pm
Metro’s propensity for prolixity knows no satiety.
If MaryT starts typing 1000 word paragraphs then we’ll know who it is.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 7:31 pm
Fleeced
There was no evidence he was going to be sacked before next Tuesday.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 7:32 pm
Really IT?
Loopy stuff.
.
22 Feb 12 at 7:33 pm
My theory: Rudd was initially willing to wait and see if his campaigning for Bligh could be claimed to be a success (even if she lost, if it was by less than expected, it could count as a sort of “win”.) Then he could ride back into Canberra as the man of the people, and he could turn it around for Federal Labor.
But polling in Queensland is so bad for Bligh, he has realised this is not going to happen.
May as well bring a challenge on now, then, before the massive loss of Bligh.
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:34 pm
“While you are probably right for what, one and a half sentances? Nonetheless it seems that English is not one of your core competancies”
Neither is it yours. Sentences. Competencies. Loser.
Lloyd
22 Feb 12 at 7:36 pm
While you
are probably right for whatmay have been correct,for one and a halfsentances?, perhaps Nonetheless it seems thatEnglish is not one of your corecompetanciesskills.Corrected for spelling and better grammar.
You are a school teacher, aren’t you?
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:36 pm
And all unreliable witnesses.
Take Hamlet, the greatest psychological-political drama in world literature.
Whose pov should one believe? That of Hamlet, Horatio, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencratz, Guildenstern?
It is the same today.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 7:36 pm
Does Kevni understand that policy, not personalities, is the problem? I don’t think so.
So he eventually (in this challenge or non-challenge, or the next challenge) gets rid of the dud chick and attempts to slug it out with Abbott on the carbon tax and the rest of the ALP anti-business platform. Abbott wins narrowly about a year from now because most people recognise that forensic accountants need to be put through the place and more Labor means more tax and spend. Remember Howard was “an embarrassing little pissant” (Sam Kekovich) for many of his years in office. Leftwing zombies will never like Abbott; I don’t think that matters in middle Australia.
Tom
22 Feb 12 at 7:37 pm
There is only one member of the ALP executive that is fit to be in government Martin Ferguson and if you can name another let me know.
Peter Garrett.
Adrien
22 Feb 12 at 7:38 pm
Peter
There was no evidence, but there was also smoke. Someone leaked it.
I don’t know if the leak was made to damage Gillard by someone in Rudd’s camp, or if the moron herself sponsored the leak in the hope of gaining the momentum.
If you look at the days events, you had a ton of shit coming at Rudd from the Slapper’s camp and it looked like she was gaining momentum. The moron may have miscalculated. She lobbed the threat of the firing but then Rudd simply volleyed back twice as hard. It’s clear he’s regained the momentum because the drama continues by leaving open what he’s going to say in the next few days.
I think she’s fucked it up today. She should never have said she was going to fire him. Really bad move.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:39 pm
JC
Does she know any that are not?
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:40 pm
June 19, 2011:
Howses’ house.
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 7:41 pm
Oh well, if things don’t Kevvie’s way, looks like Therese will have to increase his weekly housekeeping money.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 7:41 pm
His spoiling attack has taken even that from her.
lotocoti
22 Feb 12 at 7:42 pm
Tobacco Bob says:
Gee bob, you’re not getting all Shakespearean on us now, are you? My God your good. You’re really good.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:42 pm
Maybe that Ruthlessly Negative Mr Abbott has offered Kevin a UN job?
Woolfe
22 Feb 12 at 7:43 pm
Fam on board:
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 7:44 pm
“Peter Garrett.”
Adrien
The “how can we sleep while the house is burning?” guy. You really think he is fit for government I pity your low standards.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 7:45 pm
JC, I am yeah. But out of your league, old fella.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 7:45 pm
JC
I agree that it was very bad form of Gllard to air that threat to the media; she should have just carried it out – when Rudd was back on Australian soil. But for Rudd to resign, all he would have to do was phone Her Excellency, the Governor-General.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 7:46 pm
lol… I know. Fuck she’s useless.
All she had to do was wait till Friday and call a spill for Tuesday over the weekend without a mention of his name. That’s all she had to do. Act as cool as a cucumber until then. But no, of course she couldn’t. She had to fuck up again. She really is more useless than tits on bulls.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:46 pm
Tanya Plibersek is pretty good for an ALPer and so is Penny Wong. They’re pretty classy really for mainstream pollies. Well, you got to look for small mercies.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 7:47 pm
The Libs should tell Father Slipper that if he were to slip off gently into the night then a full scale investigation into his
drunken whoringlost taxi driver won’t be necessary.Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 7:48 pm
Face it, MaryBob, Emily’s Listers are useless at politics.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 7:49 pm
Hey Bob,
Mind if I ask. Where are you from eggsactly? I betting Tasmania or the very top end.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:49 pm
Tanya Plibersek is pretty
goodretardedfor an ALPeron any view and so is Penny WongTiny Dancer
22 Feb 12 at 7:50 pm
JC, I have two houses, one in the Border Ranges (NSW/Qld) and the other in Mosman, Sydney.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 7:51 pm
On reflection, I must admit that Dolphin #45 truly applies to Juliar.
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:52 pm
Not to be picky or nuffin’, but while Shakespeare was a genius, and Hamlet close to as good as he gets, Bill was a demigod in the presence of real divinities, like Aeschylus and Sophocles.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 7:52 pm
Oops, and Euripides.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 7:52 pm
Well you got Bob wrong JC.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 7:53 pm
Way to go Stevie, clearly no crisis here. Move on
Tiny Dancer
22 Feb 12 at 7:54 pm
One says Queensland Mental Health Unit out the front, the other New South Wales Royal Psychiatric Hospital.
Never stop trying, you window licking loon.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 7:54 pm
I heard Windsor talking to Ross Greenwood tonight, as far as the old lezzo is concerned, this has been the best parliament ever.
Token
22 Feb 12 at 7:55 pm
Lots of pro Gillard faces on TV tonight. Only Hawker for Rudd.
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:56 pm
J
You sound awfully like a southern Tasmanian or a top ender, Bob.
You spend more time on the border though right?
Kel, haven’t you go a taxi to buy or something this year? Focus on that.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:56 pm
You need the fix to be more subtle, IT.
Perhaps leave it in the hands of some top men from FWA.
lotocoti
22 Feb 12 at 7:56 pm
IT
There are a lot of lefties who are rich. Bob probably has solar panels on his roof at a guess making the rest of us poorer.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 7:57 pm
The “how can we sleep while the house is burning?” guy. You really think he is fit for government I pity your low standards.
Peter Garrett is one of the finest minds we’ve ever had in the House of Representatives. He’
s a veritable repository of sensible solution.
Adrien
22 Feb 12 at 7:58 pm
Lord, you’re an idiot. The only thing that counts is the ballot. Worry about the ones that aren’t talking you daft fucker.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 7:59 pm
Still not a crisis of governance, Tiny.
Even if Rudd challenges and wins, enough Independents will support him. I think. Some of them may have to be made Ministers, though, as judging by the last week’s line up, there won’t be enough experienced Labor people willing to work for Kevin again.
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 7:59 pm
Peter, comparisons are often odious but you do have a point. And Shakespeare also took a lot from Ovid. I think he beat all preceding others though in linguistic innovation and expression.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 7:59 pm
The Cat has turned into Trollsville
Tal
22 Feb 12 at 7:59 pm
“Kel, haven’t you go a taxi to buy or something this year?”
I think the guy at the base doesn’t believe me because he doesn’t call me back I did call yesterday to enquire. Looking good on one front my Thai shares are going crazy which should help in getting a loan.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 8:00 pm
I’d agree with that Adrien. Peter (lurch) Garret is perhaps one of the bigger talents in the entire Caucus. He’s out shone his previous star.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 8:01 pm
Kelly, if Bob doesn’t reside in some form of assisted living abode with a nurse checking in on him regularly then we have cause for alarm.
He/She/it may have 20+ personalities, but make no mistake, none have jobs.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 8:01 pm
JC – I forgot – Doug Cameron was doing his “Kevin was briefing journalists? Bring me the evidence” act.
Why Cameron would go for Rudd is a bit of mystery to me. Strange bedfellows.
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 8:01 pm
You really are thick as five planks, Steve.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 8:01 pm
Has Obama & Hillary had a briefing on all this as well?
Token
22 Feb 12 at 8:02 pm
Why? Because he thinks Rudd offers a better chance of winning than the Slapper. That’s why.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 8:04 pm
Do they even need to? It all happened on their front lawn.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 8:05 pm
Really? Which bank is going to lend you money based on a Thai stock portfolio, Kel?
JC
22 Feb 12 at 8:07 pm
The window licking troll bob sounds a lot like Bob Ellis’ catamite.
Token
22 Feb 12 at 8:09 pm
JC
I know that foreign assets is a problem but should count for something. BOQ said last time I tried to increase a loan that they don’t count any foreign income. Just hoping.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 8:10 pm
When Kim Il Carr got shafted by Gillard, the Victorian Left switched to Rudd.
Token
22 Feb 12 at 8:10 pm
I see…
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 8:14 pm
LOL.
No, foreign ministers resign overseas at 2 in the morning all the time.
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 8:16 pm
Mk50 – Dolphin 72A, 85!
Sea Wolf
22 Feb 12 at 8:18 pm
SfB @ 6:56pm – I agree!
I’d love to fisk his resignation speech – he’s full of crap.
Noble Rudd my armpit.
Talkback nong on ABC thisafternoon told how, through all this terrible media beat-up, Gillard and Rudd have maintained their dignity…..
Pair of lying liars they are.
kae
22 Feb 12 at 8:21 pm
Chris Uhlmann was in top form this evening. Bruce Hawker asserted that Kevin was the most popular politician in the country. Uhlmann shot back “Yeah – the most popular person in a leper colony.”
Viva
22 Feb 12 at 8:24 pm
Who gives a rat’s what Obama and Clinton thinks. Get a grip and no not on American coat tails.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 8:25 pm
Gillard calling a spill on Monday.
News on seven.
That Riley flea.
kae
22 Feb 12 at 8:26 pm
Abbott’s making hay while the sun shines.
The sun shines much in the ALP sky.
He can win the next election without releasing even one policy.
Jumpnmcar
22 Feb 12 at 8:27 pm
Spill on Monday? Probably to avoid results of latest Newspoll.
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 8:29 pm
Hillary was well informed last time, just wondering if Arbib & the others marched into the embassy to give briefings again.
Token
22 Feb 12 at 8:29 pm
He could hear that even while he was stuffing his head up her…
Token
22 Feb 12 at 8:30 pm
It’s how you know you’re being effective. These people have no higher goal in life than to try and make any non-lefty blog more of a hair shirt experience. It’s hard not to “feed the trolls”, but ultimately whether you do or don’t, their sad faces (and Steve’s looks oh, so sad and puzzled!) will keep appearing while they all think they’re fighting the good fight.
Eventually they might get hit with the clue-bat, but in any event everyone should just go on expressing themselves sensibly, as usual. Truth will out.
blogstrop
22 Feb 12 at 8:31 pm
Uhlmann is a lightweight and anyone who voluntarily watches that chewing gum show, in all seriousness, is far more stupid.
If our politicians are lepers, then what are we? Lepers too, of course. Logic 101.
Really the idiocy of some people is frightening when not pitiful.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 8:32 pm
One wonders whether Slim Kim has been intercoursing between Rudd, Gillard, and Hillary. After all, Slim Kim is another great chum of Rudd’s.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 8:35 pm
WTF……….did you go to the Al Gore school of logic?
Sweet cheese on a stick Bob you make Fester Fumble look like an intellectual heavy weight.
Carpe Jugulum
22 Feb 12 at 8:39 pm
blogstrop,I guess it’s better that the trolls vent their spleens here and spare the gen pop
Tal
22 Feb 12 at 8:40 pm
Swan just emptied a bucket of shit on ( old school chum) Rudd.
( difficult to do in a fetal position)
Jumpnmcar
22 Feb 12 at 8:40 pm
Rhys Muldoon on Sky News, fercrissakes! Does anyone care what he thinks??
Matt
22 Feb 12 at 8:41 pm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-22/live-blog-rudd-gillard/3845816
kae
22 Feb 12 at 8:42 pm
A ‘lightweight’ who is paid $400,000 per year to be on the tele every night as one of Australia’s most powerful journalists. Me thinks that if Chris and Bob stepped on the scales, Bob would weigh in as a vacuum.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 8:42 pm
At the ABC Live Blog above:
kae
22 Feb 12 at 8:44 pm
Lee Rhiannon on Sky blaming Abbott.
Fook off and die you commie troll.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 8:44 pm
Brilliant statement by Rudd. High moral ground staking combined with brinkmanship.
Masterful.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 8:45 pm
I’m surprised it took that nasty commie this long before announcing that she blames Abbott.
Utterly clueless Rhiannon.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 8:47 pm
Eeeeek – one of the filthy 1%!
boy on a bike
22 Feb 12 at 8:51 pm
lol… she actually blamed Abbott for this? Amazing… Was it his relentless negativity wot dun it?
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 8:53 pm
Just dropped by the Bob Ellis blog, lovely examples of Labor eating themselves.
Bob really loves to give his house guests a great thrashing. A lot of loving words for Rudd as well.
Token
22 Feb 12 at 8:53 pm
Kickstart your broomstick and piss off Mary.
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 8:54 pm
Peter Patton
Uhlmann is the love-child of the ALP Right. His mole is in the Caucus.
MaryT
22 Feb 12 at 8:54 pm
…In the ACT Parliament.
Just get off the picket line fighting the good fight for women MarTy?
Token
22 Feb 12 at 8:57 pm
Swan has a little tanty and rips into Rudd:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/labor-colleagues-sick-of-rudd-swan-20120222-1to9i.html#ixzz1n6T9ejsg
Let it all out Swanny. It’s good therapy.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 9:02 pm
The Australian’s coverage of today’s soap opera has been deplorable. Who’s staffing that newspaper, a nightwatchman and Nancy the tea lady?
Infidel Tiger
22 Feb 12 at 9:02 pm
“Swastika ranting gets you nowhere.”
Did I really send that to Dennis the Monitor?
Hey Mary, are you using that Magic Mushroom poultice as a chest hair remover still? Somethings got to be causing these misprints.
And please don’t stand up again, unless you’re wearing knickers…
MaryTs Keyboard
22 Feb 12 at 9:03 pm
Why are you telling me this? Good for him. It doesn’t put any meat on Biafran Bob though, does it?
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 9:04 pm
Just got home, got a beer and dinner and enjoyed the Sky News coverage. Latham now on Sky. Swan statement is over the top the full ad hominem attack. Great entertainment. Latham calls Rudd a bludger, reckons he’s got no chance. By election looks more likely.
John Comnenus
22 Feb 12 at 9:05 pm
What do I care about the “ALP Right”? I’m from a different generation. The “ALP Right” has about as much relevance to me as “the Tories”, who ALP old-codgers were once wont to bang on about.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 9:06 pm
Sea Wolf: Dolphin 101
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 9:07 pm
Poor old cameron, looking like he’d been well and truly blind-sided by the Zionists who are running Danby and News Limited.
Danby probably finally got permission from his handlers to mention Rudd’s repeated meetings with journalists. So Rudd’s denials of stealth are the deliberate and fake denials of a very dangerous man indeed.
His cry of faceless men forgets that every caucus member is well known, has a webpage, and glossy photographs spread right through their electorates.
But Uhlmann was able to dig out Rudd’s faceless man, Bruce Hawker, who couln’t answer simple questions without a suppressed giggle spreading across his jowls.
Rudd’s 2PP vote in Griffith still looks good enough to get him back in, but if he cops a large swing (over 8%) he is gone.
MaryT
22 Feb 12 at 9:07 pm
My God, I can’t believe this goat rodeo.
Rudd is chucking the toys out of the cot, and they’re landing in the Caucus Playpen. Whereupon they’re being chucked back out again…
“Miss!, Miss!, Kevni’s saying rude words again, Miss.”
We always knew this would end up in tears, but it would have to be worth the angst in sales to Kleenex alone.
Winston Smith
22 Feb 12 at 9:10 pm
BTW, is the deputy position in ALP elected as well? So we’re not getting a spill on that position? We’re stuck with Swanny?
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 9:11 pm
ROTFLMAO
That’s brilliant.
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 9:11 pm
The Bolsheviks had a way of dealing with traitors who were wont to fire off incendiary epistles from the safety of North America.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 9:12 pm
Could Slim Kim play Lizzie Borden?
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 9:14 pm
Token
the big building in Canberra, with the big Australian flag on it, is Federal Parliament.
The ACT does not have a Parliament, it has a House of Assembly.
Today is Wednesday.
It is 2012.
Need any more help – just ask. Although, in your ignorance, you still have a better understanding of these issues than most of the dregs on catallaxy.
MaryT
22 Feb 12 at 9:14 pm
Rudd will be leader by next Tuesday. And the ALP will win the next term election at the very least.
You read it first here.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 9:14 pm
he’s “Rudd’s undies” that’s why.
Nic
22 Feb 12 at 9:15 pm
MaryT:
MaryT’s already shown us in its posts that it’s a racist.
Now she shows that it’s an anti-semite and global Jewish world-domination conspiracy fruitloop.
The far left just can’t help themselves. Racism, totalitarianism and conspirazoid anti-semitism. It’s ingrained at the cellular level with these scum
Tell us more, MaryT, tell us how it’s all the fault of the Jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 9:16 pm
But but, wasn’t so long ago he was their leader lol. Not long to go till this mob will be spending millions of dollars telling us why we should vote for them.
Nic
22 Feb 12 at 9:17 pm
Oh my Lord. Now we’ve got fricking Zionists!
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 9:17 pm
The problem with Pattonites is they are chronic slaves to rules and authority.
Fortunately, history has a way of sweeping such cowards and fainthearts into oblivion and irrelevance.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 9:17 pm
PP
It did not take MaryT’s anti-semitism long to surface, did it?
It’s probably a troofer, as well.
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 9:19 pm
Dial it down Drama Queen Bob.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 9:19 pm
Great line from Bolt after Swan’s rant: “The strategy of those on Gillard’s sinking ship is to destroy the life boat.”
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 9:22 pm
Indeed; with ice-picks, for example.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 9:23 pm
MK50 of brisbane
Why do gnat-brains need everything explained to them.
Plenty of Semites and Jews are NOT Zionists.
As you are a Queenslander you will need to read this twice, so remember…
Plenty of semites and Jews are NOT Zionists.
Now this will exhaust you – but for others …
you can be a Zionist puppet but not a Semite nor even a Jew.
Any Israeli can be a Zionist or an anti-Zionist. You can also find Zionist gangs comprised of various nationalities and ethnicities.
I hope this does not burst your brain cells.
MaryT
22 Feb 12 at 9:24 pm
Now Mary don’t get started on “The Jews”
Tal
22 Feb 12 at 9:24 pm
Or less spectacularly, for cowards and toadies, mere layers of obliterating dust.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 9:25 pm
More importantly, will Kevvy now resign as godfather of Swan’s kid?
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 9:26 pm
How can the ALP seriously put forward Rudd has a candidate when his former Treasurer and Cabinet colleague describes him thus:
Matt
22 Feb 12 at 9:27 pm
Who’s that on the right?
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 9:29 pm
Left.
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 9:30 pm
Sure. And I’m sure there were plenty who argued that not all blacks were n***ers, too.
wreckage
22 Feb 12 at 9:30 pm
Release the elephants Lad
Tal
22 Feb 12 at 9:32 pm
They must fear Rudd having more than 30 votes for this all out smear campaign by Swannie and Burke.
It so utterly stupid on scales never before envisaged for seasoned politicians to be engaging in such silliness.
We are witnessing all out civil war in the ALP.
Gillard and now many others are deadmeat unless Rudd is less than 30
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 9:34 pm
Andrew Bolt is saying that Rudd resigning is a brilliant move. ?
Seems kind of an improbable analysis, given the number of MP’s lining up to denounce him.
And Swan’s right: to a large extent, we ended up with a hung parliament because Rudd was clearly not willing to present a united front under Gillard.
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 9:34 pm
Close of nominations for Qld state election: Noon Monday 27 February 2012.
Rudd looking to switch?
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 9:34 pm
Yes yes yes. Belief in a global conspiracy of Jews is not racist because some of their henchmen are not Jews.
Got it.
wreckage
22 Feb 12 at 9:34 pm
Tal, are you telling C.L. to do something vulgar. Sure sounds like it.
There are ladies present, dear.
Bob
22 Feb 12 at 9:35 pm
Absolutely, Tal.
My Christian elephants need to be herded through The Lodge, Sussex Street and the ALP party room.
>:————/
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 9:36 pm
By “a large” you of course mean “no measurable”.
wreckage
22 Feb 12 at 9:36 pm
Steve now blames Rudd for Gillard’s incompetencies and failures. lol
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 9:36 pm
It’s true what ‘strop says,
When lefty trolls go beserk, you know they’re hurting.
What a humiliation. After 11 years of Howard, they get elected and then give the country its two worst ever prime ministers and its two worst ever governments.
LOL.
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 9:38 pm
SfB proudly proclaims his stupidity…… yet again
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 9:38 pm
Bit hard to stand straight with a knife in your back.
LOL… The election result was Rudd’s fault for not being loyal to the PM.
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 9:38 pm
MaryT
Spittle-flecked anti-semitic ranting from this extreme left racist troll is surely not far away.
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 9:38 pm
Poor ol’ Wayne’s probably feeing a little hurt that he’s not on the leadership radar.
Yet.
lotocoti
22 Feb 12 at 9:39 pm
Commenter at Bolter’s:
That is brilliant.
James in Melbourne
22 Feb 12 at 9:40 pm
Oh yes: are you all pretending that about half of the last election campaign wasn’t taken up with leaks from Rudd or his camp about how Gillard had made crook decisions when she in the gang of four? And then the famous meeting with Rudd where he couldn’t bear to look her in the eye? As Barrie Cassidy said at the time – there was only one in the room putting in any effort.
steve from brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 9:42 pm
MaryT
MaryT
How can you not see my argument? You’re making it.
wreckage
22 Feb 12 at 9:44 pm
Steve, i seriously doubt anyone is saying that. In fact it is true.
the really amazing thing is, say Kevni actually gets up in the ballot. Are Burke, Swan, Danby et al going to resign in protest? Put their money where their mouth is? Cross the floor?
entropy
22 Feb 12 at 9:46 pm
Mk50
Don’t over react there are Jews against Israel or Zionism just as there are Muslims for Israel. I would suggest if these 2 groups get together then there can be peace.
To tie them together with News Limited does seem strange though. So question to Mary what does News Limited have to do with Zionism? Especially as they do put the anti zionist view accross at least some times http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEXIJ-cD2s
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 9:46 pm
James – great effort earlier today predicting ruff’s early return from O/S.
Rabz
22 Feb 12 at 9:46 pm
if you can’t blame Abbott it must be the Jews.
entropy
22 Feb 12 at 9:47 pm
None of us are denying Rudd’s effect on the election Steve, you clown – we even commented about it at the time. We just find it a bit rich when the backstabbers of Rudd themselves complain about his lack of loyalty.
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 9:48 pm
The implications of Swann making that statement is to threaten and scare Kruddy votes back to Gillard.
They must know Kruddy has more than 33.
It means they are threatening to resign when and if Kruddy is elected.
It literally is in unparalleled rhetoric in Australian politics and marks the beginning of the end of the ALP as a major political party
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 9:50 pm
Hey! Thanx Rabz!
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 9:50 pm
OMG – Abbott’s a Jew! Or a Zionist. Or a Zionist puppet. That’s so typical of the filthy Catholic. He’s a Catholic jew!
I bet if you asked him he’d deny it – BECAUSE HE’S ALWAYS SO NEGATIVE!
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 9:51 pm
You mean that sickening stunt Gillard organised to appear more human?
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 9:51 pm
Joooooooooos made ruff resign?
Joooooooooos removed dullard’s brain one night when she was pissed and asleep?
Joooooooooos are remotely controlling woine goose with their mind control rays?
[Slight edit. Sinc]
Rabz
22 Feb 12 at 9:51 pm
Bob, no nothing vulgar,just a bit of missionary work
Tal
22 Feb 12 at 9:51 pm
Genuionely moderate Muslims protected Jews during the Holocaust
wreckage
22 Feb 12 at 9:51 pm
I blame the MAD MONK Tony Abbot and his relentless negativity.
.
22 Feb 12 at 9:52 pm
and the jooos
entropy
22 Feb 12 at 9:54 pm
Sinc’s got the pooper scooper out!
Rabz
22 Feb 12 at 9:55 pm
And he should hang by a necktie in a ladies bathroom
Tal
22 Feb 12 at 9:55 pm
Doomlord has struck.
Sinclair Davidson
22 Feb 12 at 9:55 pm
Thanx Sinc
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 9:56 pm
oops – some weird sort of comment chewing and spewing going on here!
Rabz
22 Feb 12 at 9:56 pm
Sorry Sinc – I’ll now cease and desist!
Rabz
22 Feb 12 at 9:56 pm
About time, Doomlord.
Thank you
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 9:57 pm
I believe that happened while she was young and niave and working at Slater and Gordon. The zionist entity transplanted her brain with one from a goldfish.
Given Krudd’s heart condition, the zionist entity swapped his for the tinman’s. oh, wait….
entropy
22 Feb 12 at 9:58 pm
Of course Rudd’s “Look what you made me do” move is a sharp piece of work.
Where are the disadvantages for him?
Where are the advantages for Jules?
lotocoti
22 Feb 12 at 9:59 pm
Now that would be sad. I mean, where then could talentless, unpleasant, ill-educated, overweight, body-hygiene-challenged, ethically-bypassed union assembly-line graduates who grunt in lieu of actual speech go for their sinecures?
James in Melbourne
22 Feb 12 at 10:00 pm
Ah, crap. The popcorn machine just blew up!
Oh come on
22 Feb 12 at 10:00 pm
The greenies?
Rabz
22 Feb 12 at 10:03 pm
>
Dawkins unis
entropy
22 Feb 12 at 10:03 pm
This Dawkins bashing has got to stop.
Have a good look at U Syd and ANU for starters.
Is there anyone who teaches economics at Sydney Uni who isn’t a communist?
Let’s bash ALL universities.
.
22 Feb 12 at 10:05 pm
yeah but that would be picking on poor dumb animals
entropy
22 Feb 12 at 10:06 pm
It’s better than a party of progressives or a permanent Labor/Green Alliance which is what will now inevitably happen.
If Kruddy does something to turn that around he will have done a great service despite his previous awful prime-ministership.
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 10:07 pm
Worst government in the contemporary history of the Anglophone world.
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 10:09 pm
Hilarious conspiracy by commenter at ch9 site:
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 10:11 pm
Don Burke?
.
22 Feb 12 at 10:12 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
C.L.
22 Feb 12 at 10:13 pm
wreckage
Interesting about Albania. Sorry for off the topic but Mary started it.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 10:14 pm
When the dust settles, the media trainer who convinced Julia to speak to the electorate at all times as if they were a particularly dumb class of nine-year-olds, will need to be found by the ALP and whacked, as Tony Soprano would say.
I am sure that she is perfectly warm and engaging around a dinner table, but that mode of speaking to the public at large has sunk her.
It goes without saying that I blame Tony Abbott and his relentless negativity, for making Julia sound like Flo and Dorrie on Mogadon.
James in Melbourne
22 Feb 12 at 10:19 pm
Ummm….
All Hail the Doomlord!
(When he smites, they stay smote, so sucking up seems appropriate)
On a serious note, I expected this berserk rockshow of a government to be an entertaining squandocracy when they were selected by the three maniacal morons.
In this alone they have vastly exceeded my expectations.
I present this amazingly effervescent thread as evidence.
Sigh. If only they did not cost so much….
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 10:22 pm
Bob, I presume you that Bob right. The Unleashed Bob. Didn’t you predict recently that Abbott would fall and Turnbull would take over.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 10:24 pm
One of the various freaks my glorious banning regime would deal with.
.
22 Feb 12 at 10:27 pm
JC,
I know you joke about Kate Ellis being very cute and all, but I seriously think she has a lot of smarts, is fairly modest and has a lot more dignity than Rudd or Gillard. She certainly got there by merit unlike Nanna Roxon, Dumbarse Pilbersek or the hopeless Ginerella Vuvuzela.
I’ve heard her speeches and she seems a bit more friendly to libertarians. I hope she isn’t faking it like Rudd was. You’ve got to remember I respect the OLD ALP, which was formed under genuine circumstance, had a purpose and wanted to leave you alone, mostly.
I reckon she should run, and then call an election to become our first elected female PM. Either way, she would be remembered nobly. If Crean wins, he should give her a major portfolio, even Treasury.
I’m serious.
.
22 Feb 12 at 10:33 pm
In other news, Dolphins are people. It’s science now, so don’t go being a denier!
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 10:34 pm
Sorry, that should have been posted to the open thread
Fleeced
22 Feb 12 at 10:35 pm
But what is the best way to cook a dolphin fillet?
.
22 Feb 12 at 10:35 pm
Look, I’ve never had a real issue with the old style ALP of Hawke and Keating. Fuck, I voted for them. I think their economics was screwed up especially in terms of the labor markets. But thei intentions was always towards improving the average person’s lot in life.
I have no time for this lot involved with the ‘vironment movement. This movement stands for the exact opposite.
I’ll take your word on Kate. And hey, if she makes it to PM who’s complaining?
JC
22 Feb 12 at 10:42 pm
Gillard is today’s loser. She has shown that she can’t even win when she knows all 103 voters, has an overwhelming majority of support and is the incumbent. As always her judgement is terrible. She supposedly has the whip hand and can’t even control the narrative. I reckon at the end if the day caucus will realize that who ever loses will probably resign and that Gillards seat is winnable in a by election, but Rudds is not. They will go Rudd. The sensible move would be to vote for someone else, but apparently there is no one in Fed ALP who could lead the party.
John Comnenus
22 Feb 12 at 10:43 pm
I must say, my opinion of her intellect increased substantially when I learnt she’s bonking a tabloid journalist.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 10:45 pm
Well John I would say Crean/Kate. As for the environment movement, I blame little Richo and his relentless cynicism and electioneering. Which is really Tony Abbot’s fault.
The ALP would do well to deal with the pragmatic left, ala Rod Cavalier, rather than the hollywood right.
.
22 Feb 12 at 10:45 pm
Poor dumb bastard doesn’t realise she’s playing him for a chump.
.
22 Feb 12 at 10:46 pm
I think the worst feature of the night is the dreadful put down of Rudd released by Swan–apparently he was on 2gb too about 9pm?
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the pseudo grown up Treasurer of our nation, a nasty spiteful little henchman of the Slapper!
I always knew he was a Goose, but I didn;t know he was also a gullible paid gun for hire.
He really has cooked himself, the silly Goose–and it seems has shown us just how much this battle is really a bitter gutter fight all about two “Me only Me” lousy individuals supported by more of the same.
Not ONE WORD have we heard yet about how Australians can get their fortunes looked after by incumbent or pretender or followers, no, it’s just “gimmee back my crown” and ” No I’m keeping it “and “Stop being nasty to poor Gingerella ” talk from the empty suits in Canberra’s right of Speaker ranks!!
Then again there are those who are saying” I love it, pass the popcorn and tell Tony Abbott to just do a Bradbury all the way to the Lodge…”
Jazza
22 Feb 12 at 10:47 pm
Will somebody just deport that fucking wog, Doug Cameron!
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 10:50 pm
So it is Abbott’s fault.
entropy
22 Feb 12 at 10:51 pm
He appears to be like a back alley brawler who found a tuxedo in the trash and got lucky.
Gab
22 Feb 12 at 10:51 pm
I’m pretty sure he’s very happy with what he’s playing with.
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 10:52 pm
Wow man. The ALP really are hardcore socialists…they’ve just nationalised the production of opposition election ads!
Skuter
22 Feb 12 at 10:55 pm
gee, Dot, let me catch up here. I am just finishing an explanation as to why Abbott was at fault for Pharaoh Ramses II losing the Battle of Kadesh to the Hittite King Muwatalli II on the Orontes in 1274BC.
It was the effect of his negativity, y’know….. really messed up the Division of Ra.
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 10:56 pm
If it is Abbotts fault he will make a great Prime Minister if he can have such results from opposition.
kelly liddle
22 Feb 12 at 10:59 pm
That reporter, Lyndal Curtis looked positively aroused when she was breathlessly over reporting the unfolding events this evening. And Rudd looked professional in his replayed resignation speech just after Swannies blood flecked bile laced vomit.
This morning I thought it was all over, Jules had won and now it is all up for grabs again. Crazy days, indeed.
Helen Armstrong
22 Feb 12 at 11:00 pm
I blame the tempting of Adam and Even by Satan on the MAD MONK Tony Abbot and his relentless negativity.
Satan was merely setting out on an apple consumption reduction and abatement plan.
It’s in the apocrypha if you look hard enough.
In all seriousness, Kate Ellis should be PM, dump that Punch chump and marry me. Well her being PM is possible and probably for the best.
.
22 Feb 12 at 11:01 pm
No, Dot, Tanya Plibersek for PM.
Bout time we had the smartest creature ever to exist in phylum Porifera as a PM.
Mk50 of Brisbane
22 Feb 12 at 11:05 pm
Suddenly, just out of the blue, the one I really want to see crucified is Shane Wand. After this evening’s outburst, I really fucking hate that little prick. He really is a little worm.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 11:06 pm
He is the millstone of the ALP and of the nation.
I think he ought to be charged for asebia and starting new religions, and of course, forced to drink hemlock.
.
22 Feb 12 at 11:07 pm
lol I didn’t see this.
He’s not a little henchman. He’s a cowardly little douchebag and if Labor had any brains they would kick his arse out the party never to be seen again.
JC
22 Feb 12 at 11:08 pm
A picture of Gillard in front of Parliament after her defeat.
Andreas
22 Feb 12 at 11:10 pm
A bit harsh on douchebags. I have had the misfortune of seeing this cretin, I apologise to cretins, up close and he is a useless, pathetic shamble of a man who is an embarrassment to anyone with an IQ of 55 and a pulse.
Tiny Dancer
22 Feb 12 at 11:21 pm
dot
Pop that in an email to her. I am 100% convinced the minister be convinced!
Peter Patton
22 Feb 12 at 11:22 pm
Gold!
Pedro the Ignorant
22 Feb 12 at 11:26 pm
The bile and spite here is going to do the ALP some real lomg term damage. The Greens will benefitmand the ALP will most likely need the Greens support to form Fgovt again in the next 10years.
John Comnenus
22 Feb 12 at 11:26 pm
Yeah I also want to see Shane Wand go down. That pissant pisses me off to no end.
big dumb fu
22 Feb 12 at 11:35 pm
At the ALP conference all Julia needed to do was acknowledge the previous Labor PM amonng all the many others she named.
On such small-minded personal animosity power is lost and a 2 party political system is wrecked.
And Shamne Wand will go down as one of the most graceless and inept politicians to ever hold such a major political office in this country
JamesK
22 Feb 12 at 11:48 pm
What a fascinating thing to wake up to this morning! Am stockpiling popcorn right now.
perturbed
23 Feb 12 at 12:34 am
Exactly what I was thinking, perturbed.
dover_beach
23 Feb 12 at 3:00 am
Kate Ellis for PM? Y’reckon? She’s a raving feminist ffs.
Bob
23 Feb 12 at 6:30 am
Some feminists aren’t misandrists, you know…
.
23 Feb 12 at 7:37 am
Actually feminism arose as a reaction to misogyny. Misandry had nothing to do with it.
Urban Dictionary
Bob
23 Feb 12 at 7:57 am
Then we have nothing to fear, Bob.
Do you support Kate Ellis for PM?
.
23 Feb 12 at 7:59 am
Not really, she’s bright and smart enough, and gorgeous.
But she’s in the ALP and I don’t support or advocate a vote for the ALP, ever.
Bob
23 Feb 12 at 8:10 am
Kate Ellis?
FFS, she didn’t even finish her Bachelors degree at Flinders, but went straight from student politics to the ALP!
Paul Williams
23 Feb 12 at 10:11 am
Bob = Bob Ellis?
Oh come on
23 Feb 12 at 10:44 am
LOL @ Andreas!! Nice work
Oh come on
23 Feb 12 at 10:46 am