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Breaking News: Slipper resigns

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Written by Sinclair Davidson

October 9th, 2012 at 6:30 pm

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  1. Thank goodness stood up in parliament to defend the Musselman, it appears all that bile she vomited out really was a great investment for the future.

    Token

    9 Oct 12 at 6:34 pm

  2. Abbott wins.

    C.L.

    9 Oct 12 at 6:35 pm

  3. This is hilarious. Beautiful in it’s ugliness.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 6:36 pm

  4. Abbott wins.

    What a day for Abbott. Backs the fat arsed lying slag into a corner, only for the prick she defended to resign in fucking shame.

    harrys on the boat

    9 Oct 12 at 6:38 pm

  5. You sort of get used to our Parliament being a circus and then something even more bizarre happens.

    anyway its best for slippy’s mental health, things like a bit dire for him legally and all, his marriage etc, big strain

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 6:38 pm

  6. This circus cannot continue.

    Call an election to end this complete and utter fucking disgrace.

    harrys on the boat

    9 Oct 12 at 6:40 pm

  7. But but but… they told me Gillard had swept the floor with Abbott? He’s a freaking magician.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 6:41 pm

  8. But he didn’t quit before the Government trashed its reputation in defending him.

    Nicest thing Slipper has ever done.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 6:42 pm

  9. My God Slipper has made Gillard look like a complete and utter pickled mussel today. Not to mention all the other pickled mussels who stood up and supported the Cabcharge bandit.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 6:43 pm

  10. I cannot believe that Gillards judgement is so flawed. Bad enough she put Slipper in as Speaker but then why embarrass herself by publicly defending his behaviour.

    WTF is the ALP thinking? How much more proof do they need that Gillard is just not up to the job? If Parliament needed a resident banshee, she would be shoe in.

    Dianeh

    9 Oct 12 at 6:44 pm

  11. And so the stench on the cross benches grows.

    H B Bear

    9 Oct 12 at 6:45 pm

  12. I’d like to think I’d like to throw a shoe at her, like that man did to Howard, but I won’t.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 6:45 pm

  13. Gillard must feel sick to her stomach. Like she’s eaten a dodgy clam chowder.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 6:46 pm

  14. The independents are not pleased tonight, except for Wilke, he’s relieved he voted the right way!

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 6:47 pm

  15. I cannot believe that Gillards judgement is so flawed.

    She will always be the gaffe machine

    Token

    9 Oct 12 at 6:47 pm

  16. Poor Timmy. He’d better hang out in the shed tonight.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 6:48 pm

  17. I just don’t have any words for this disgrace.

    ‘How long can this blizzard of shame go on?

    Hunter S. Thompson

    Brett

    9 Oct 12 at 6:50 pm

  18. Louise Yaxley desperately spinning on ALPBC 24.

    H B Bear

    9 Oct 12 at 6:50 pm

  19. Given that Katter apparently absented himself from the division, Wilkie is the only cross-bencher seen to have done the moral thing.

    Cold-Hands

    9 Oct 12 at 6:50 pm

  20. Does anyone think it possible that Gillard and her conga line of hags think that the definition of misogynist is

    ” anyone with a dick that disagrees with me”

    Cause nothing else really explains the bizarre show they put on in Parliament today.

    Btw Slipper was right to resign. Better for him, his family, for everyone really,, except Gillard of course.

    Dianeh

    9 Oct 12 at 6:50 pm

  21. Windsor uses up more of whatever little political capital he has left.

    Chained to a ship of fools.

    H B Bear

    9 Oct 12 at 6:54 pm

  22. A little song just for Jules.

    Love, ‘Mussels’ Pete.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 6:55 pm

  23. Maybe Abbott and Slipper planned this 3 years ago.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 6:55 pm

  24. Stick that in your pipes and smoke it, leftist cocksuckers! Today was a great victory for Gillard, huh?

    Follow Slipper’s lead and resign you slimeballs and don’t show your ugly mugs in public again.

    Feral Abacus

    9 Oct 12 at 6:55 pm

  25. In his speech, Slipper said he made this decision voluntarily.

    He said he sympathised with some of the points made by the Opposition in calling for his removal. How much worse, then, that Labor conceded none.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 7:01 pm

  26. Slipper extending heartfelt, laboured thanks to female members of parliament. And you know what they are all thinking.

    Just plain surreal & awkward.

    Rousie

    9 Oct 12 at 7:03 pm

  27. Gillard is now done…

    max49

    9 Oct 12 at 7:04 pm

  28. The government will take the votes of Mr. musselman and Mr. Red Light Repeater, but will call Tony a misogynist.

    blogstrop

    9 Oct 12 at 7:04 pm

  29. More music for Julia.

    cynical1

    9 Oct 12 at 7:07 pm

  30. I don’t think you can get more self indulgent than that.
    Zero remorse, zero sympathy

    Rousie

    9 Oct 12 at 7:08 pm

  31. Maybe Abbott and Slipper planned this 3 years ago.

    I guarantee there will be an article on the Drum tomorrow running that conspiracy.

    twostix

    9 Oct 12 at 7:08 pm

  32. Slipper should console himself with a case of wine and a fisherman’s basket, followed by a slow cruise from Canberra to a nice night spot in Kings Cross… all on the taxpayers dime of course.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 7:10 pm

  33. meh.

    More music for Julia’s ears.

    Itchy trigger finger after reading the luvvie’s
    admiration for a brilliant performance from Gillard.

    Well, that ended well.

    Sold their souls for a 2 hour victory.

    cynical1

    9 Oct 12 at 7:10 pm

  34. Political analyst Monty, July 2012:

    “Slipper will probably return to the speaker’s chair…”

    C.L.

    9 Oct 12 at 7:10 pm

  35. Slipper had to go the blub

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 7:10 pm

  36. Today Slipper showed Gillard and her minions what was the right thing to do

    val majkus

    9 Oct 12 at 7:10 pm

  37. Is Julia Gillard the worst politician that has ever held office in Australian history, including local councils?

    After today’s utterly embarrassing abortion alone the answer must surely be yes.

    Will race riot mastermind John “smartest man in the room” McTernan who was of course instrumental in the absurd high school level performance in parliament today leave Australia to return to the third world toilet from whence he came?

    Will Thompson and Oakeshotte trade SMS’s?

    So many questions.

    twostix

    9 Oct 12 at 7:13 pm

  38. Will Thompson and Oakeshotte trade SMS’s?

    I mean will Slipper, Thompson, Oakeshotte and Windsor trade SMS’s?

    twostix

    9 Oct 12 at 7:14 pm

  39. Make sure they get the Cabcharge vouchers back.

    H B Bear

    9 Oct 12 at 7:15 pm

  40. Why choose right now – was it because there was only one vote in it – if there’d be say another 10 in his favour he would have stayed on?

    or was it ethics?

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 7:15 pm

  41. It is just as well shame has been banished or mOnty would probably be dying from a severe case of it right now.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 7:15 pm

  42. Today Slipper showed Gillard and her minions what was the right thing to do

    Peter Slipper: More respect for parliament than Gillard, Swan, Roxon and Albanese.

    twostix

    9 Oct 12 at 7:16 pm

  43. Why choose right now – was it because there was only one vote in it – if there’d be say another 10 in his favour he would have stayed on?

    or was it ethics?

    On balance I’d say he was forced to go, even 87% of respondents on a poll on The Age said so.

    However Gillard couldn’t let Abbott have a win in parliament so foisted the theatre in parliament today onto the public then told Slipper to resign tonight.

    twostix

    9 Oct 12 at 7:19 pm

  44. Was a deal done with Slipper earlier this afternoon? Where did Gillard and Burke go when they left the chamber during the debate on Slipper’s future?

    Septimus

    9 Oct 12 at 7:19 pm

  45. Now we have to add “shame” to the list of totally devalued words, along with racist, sexist and misogynist.

    blogstrop

    9 Oct 12 at 7:19 pm

  46. Will he have to hand back his capes?

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 7:20 pm

  47. So its open slather then. Just as well cause I turned on ABC 24 and here’s Juanita and wondered if Combet had chewed the beard off her mussel yet.

    Pickles

    9 Oct 12 at 7:21 pm

  48. I’m not sure what to be more amazed at, Gillard’s chutzpah at using the death of her father, her calling Abbott a misoginist when the public knows it’s a furphy or the leftist media high fiving at the serve she gave Abbott, all before Slipper resigned of course. I hope she looks like a right goose, of course the spin from Fairfacts will be quite the opposite.

    Nic

    9 Oct 12 at 7:21 pm

  49. Richo reckons door is now wide open for Rudd. I’d say he’s right…
    Gillard has just had the rug pulled out from under her.
    Andrew Leigh on now saying Slipper made the right decision, mere hours after voting to keep him in the chair. PvO let’s him off the hook…what a surprise…

    Skuter

    9 Oct 12 at 7:21 pm

  50. Now we have to add “shame” to the list of totally devalued words, along with racist, sexist and misogynist.

    And “she” and no looking at your watch when a female speaks.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 7:21 pm

  51. of course the spin from Fairfacts will be quite the opposite.

    The worse the better.

    twostix

    9 Oct 12 at 7:24 pm

  52. Beware the demographic…..Jules has the ‘sympathy for the mentally handicapped ‘ vote sown up.

    Would Labor’s previous prize nutter, Doc Evatt, have done such a circus act on his worse day?

    Alfonso

    9 Oct 12 at 7:24 pm

  53. Gillard has just had the rug pulled out from under her.

    Misogynist!

    dover_beach

    9 Oct 12 at 7:25 pm

  54. Political analyst Monty, July 2012:

    “Slipper will probably return to the speaker’s chair…”

    The grub repeated that 2/3 days ago

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 7:25 pm

  55. Pickles @ 7:21pm – just like Thommo you have crossed the line.

    Don’t ask me what line. I just know you’ve crossed it.

    H B Bear

    9 Oct 12 at 7:25 pm

  56. PvO, pleasantly surprised at PM ‘musseling’ up to Abbott, but now admits she screwed up. He must have got first class honours in shameless back pedalling…

    Sorry folks, bear with me. I’m watching Sky News journos’ heads implode…

    Skuter

    9 Oct 12 at 7:26 pm

  57. And “she” and no looking at your watch when a female speaks.

    No swearing in the presence of a female, (Abbott saying “bullshit” to Roxon has been a foundation stone of the attacks against him).

    The list of “rules” one must abide by in the lefts society is worse than Victorian England.

    twostix

    9 Oct 12 at 7:26 pm

  58. Beware the demographic.

    Wonder what this will do to the wymmns vote for Gillard?

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 7:27 pm

  59. Gillard’s day of infamy.

    Not content to show she still lives in the gutter, but adds to her disgrace by dishonestly calling Tony a misogynist. No lie is too far for her. No common fish-wife behaviour is out of character.

    The gathering mountain of evidence of the sleazy past with the AWU-WRA is now looking more threatening by the day. There’s to be no escape from the next House.

    James of the Glens

    9 Oct 12 at 7:30 pm

  60. What a despicable low-life we have holding the Office of Prime Minister.

    Our first female PM is our worst PM.

    The US’ first black President is their worst president evah

    I don’t think our PM is a disaster of affirmative action but simple bad luck.

    Americans have no such comfort.

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 7:32 pm

  61. Wonder if Wilkie is thinking about voting against the government to boost his chances at the next election…Gillard would have to be shitting itself (is that non-misogynist enough?)…

    Skuter

    9 Oct 12 at 7:34 pm

  62. The fucking perv pretty much admitted the Coalition was right in trying to remove him from the speakership. Can Labor sink any lower? Peter fucking Slipper knows what the morally correct thing to do is and the gubmint and its sycophants don’t. Election now, thanks.

    Feral Abacus

    9 Oct 12 at 7:34 pm

  63. So how many clams was he offered to go quietly and give his ‘independent’ vote to the Government?

    Septimus

    9 Oct 12 at 7:42 pm

  64. How many clams? Priceless!

    blogstrop

    9 Oct 12 at 7:44 pm

  65. I expect Slipper will just clam up and join the other Independents waiting to be thrown out at the next election.

    H B Bear

    9 Oct 12 at 7:46 pm

  66. I thought he was something of a bivalve anyway.

    blogstrop

    9 Oct 12 at 7:48 pm

  67. Now we have to add “shame” to the list of totally devalued words, along with racist, sexist and misogynist.

    Don’t know if you’re down with the way the deranged howler-monkeys, but apparently the big scandal today is Abbott said “dying with shame”.

    After all, those are sacred words never to be uttered in front of the type of government that would exploit the death of the PM’s father…

    Token

    9 Oct 12 at 7:48 pm

  68. Memo Rob Oakeshott:
    How goes that new paradigm, that breath of fresh air, that “beautiful in all it’s ugliness” ….. you know …. the whole vibe of the thing?

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 7:48 pm

  69. Slipper should console himself with a case of wine and a fisherman’s basket

    Glorious IT…love it.
    The ALP really should stop writing gags for you.

    Skuter

    9 Oct 12 at 7:49 pm

  70. Breaking news:

    Gillard’s Dad has risen from the dead and confirmed that he did die of shame.

    Sisyphus

    9 Oct 12 at 7:49 pm

  71. About bloody time.

    And braindead melham as well – two in one day.

    Lardarse. Is. Toast.

    BTW, can this stuttering clusterfuck get any more utterly shambolic?

    Rabz

    9 Oct 12 at 7:52 pm

  72. What an awesome day for Gillard.

    Newspoll returns to a “resounding election-winning lead” of eight points.

    Her caucus chairthing quits.

    She spends hours shrieking at Abbott to defend a grubby misogynist.

    The grubby misogynist – whom Gillard insisted replace a perfectly decent Speaker in Harry Jenkins – up and quits leaving her and her mongrel ministers red-faced.

    WINNING!

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 7:52 pm

  73. Red cordial alert! Red cordial alert!

    The kids will take forever to settle down tonight.

    steve from brisbane

    9 Oct 12 at 7:53 pm

  74. Septimus, I know I’m from the country but I’m confused. I though the whole Ashby – Slipper thing was because he was adverse to the allure of the clam?

    MT Isa Miner

    9 Oct 12 at 7:53 pm

  75. What is it with Labor and seafood? I wait for them to peel off their faces to reveal the sea people. We are living in a South Park episode

    Pickles

    9 Oct 12 at 7:55 pm

  76. Seriously, how badly could Gillard have fucked this up?

    All she had to do was say something like “We will leave it up to him but I urge him to consider his position carefully”.

    That gives her all possible outs, he can stay, he can go, he can “think about it”, he can wait until the legal case is resolved…and Gillard comes out smelling okay.

    It never ceases to amaze me how Labor make simple things so friggin difficult for themselves….

    MDMConnell

    9 Oct 12 at 7:56 pm

  77. Blue blistering barnacles! These little suckers brought down a government.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 7:57 pm

  78. I guess oysters will be off the parliamentary menu henceforth.
    Shame..a new dish “oysters kilslipper” would have been a winner.

    Steve of Glasshouse

    9 Oct 12 at 7:58 pm

  79. Sea monkeys,Pickles

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 7:58 pm

  80. Given the treatment Slipper has received from the opposition it seems likely to me he would generally vote with the government, so likely nothing has really changed in the vote balance.

    SteveC

    9 Oct 12 at 7:59 pm

  81. Warms the cockles of your heart this whole affair.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 8:00 pm

  82. Gillard will clam up when questioned by the media tomorrow.

    James X Leftie

    9 Oct 12 at 8:00 pm

  83. All she had to do was say something like “We will leave it up to him but I urge him to consider his position carefully”.

    How could she leave it up to him ,they had to vote on a motion to remove him.

    SteveC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:01 pm

  84. Your comments are as welcome as a bucket of off mussels at a lesbian convention SteveC. Piss orf.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 8:01 pm

  85. I guess this song will be banned in this country.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:01 pm

  86. Abbott is happy as a clam

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:01 pm

  87. I wait for them to peel off their faces to reveal the sea crab people.

    Given the indescribable idiocy we’re witnessing on a daily basis it’s actually quite a plausible scenario…

    Rabz

    9 Oct 12 at 8:01 pm

  88. Political analyst Monty, July 2012:

    “Slipper will probably return to the speaker’s chair…

    Lol. Great prediction fatboy. Score another 6 points.

    He also recently said hetrosexual sex wasn’t necessary.

    So let me get this right, the Lying Slapper fought tooth and nail to hold onto Slipper. “She” made her parliamentary colleagues vote to support “him” and “he” now resigns.

    hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    If it were possible, “she’s” more useless than a spare dick at a wedding. “She’s” absolutely fucking useless.

    Didn’t “she” speak to the Slip.. feel him out (no pun) and try to figure out where “his” head was.

    Fuck “she’s” a moron. a pure oxygen thief.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:02 pm

  89. Good day for you SteveC?

    Proud to see the whole Labor/Green/Independent alliance vote for a man who called women c**ts and botches?

    Token

    9 Oct 12 at 8:02 pm

  90. Shame Gab

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:02 pm

  91. SteveC, you haven’t been here long. This is the 16,527th proclamation from Catallaxy readers that the government is about to fall, by my reckoning.

    They’re slow learners…

    steve from brisbane

    9 Oct 12 at 8:03 pm

  92. Hey Rabz

    I’m betting your buddy ain’t going to be too happy with his vote for Slipper, right?

    This could be a hanging offense for the Slapper.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:03 pm

  93. Stepford, the househusband sounds really spiteful this evening.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:04 pm

  94. The world will be Slippery’s oyster now

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:04 pm

  95. What’s the bet Timmy won’t be serving up seafood for dinner tonight?

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:05 pm

  96. the househusband sounds really spiteful this evening.

    He ate bad clams.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:05 pm

  97. What will Slippery do for a squid after the next election?

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:06 pm

  98. Got to admit, there’s something very fishy about how Slipper quit.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:07 pm

  99. your buddy

    Well, “Conservative Catholics” should be appalled, JC.

    I’m more interested in when lardarse gets shucked…

    Rabz

    9 Oct 12 at 8:08 pm

  100. Haha I told mInty it would be a disaster and not an inspired piece of judgement by the PM.

    All this thead needs is a pic of colonel Hannibal smith with a big fat cigar!

    Sean

    9 Oct 12 at 8:09 pm

  101. Of course slipper will vote with the government SteveC. And the opposition will remind everyone whose vote Gillard is relying on.

    Of more interest, who will end up as speaker? I bet Oakeshott fancies his chances.

    entropy

    9 Oct 12 at 8:09 pm

  102. Dogshit’s Best Friend is relieved that Peter Slipper is as big a political whore as Windsor, Oakshott, Gillard and every member of the government who told their their electorates one thing and will continue to do the exact opposite. DBF’s Greens have to specialise in such treachery as the only way they can get the otherthrow of the social and economic system implemented is to lie to everyone about their real intentions.

    Tom

    9 Oct 12 at 8:09 pm

  103. Stepford, the househusband sounds…

    Probably caught in the laundry with an open bottle of Cuddly Soft and that Women’s Weekly.
    Again.

    lotocoti

    9 Oct 12 at 8:10 pm

  104. Hope Yobbo doesn’t read this thread.

    It’ll play havoc with his asthma.

    C.L.

    9 Oct 12 at 8:10 pm

  105. Maybe Slipper quit for the halibut?

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:10 pm

  106. Burke just got the job

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:11 pm

  107. Indeed Leigh, Jules practicing cert is not current, back to the Union movement looks unlikely, ……I’m thinking her only earner before the dole might be on a windmill consultancy, seeing they owe her so much for the subsidisation of their scam with taxpayers dollars.

    Alfonso

    9 Oct 12 at 8:12 pm

  108. Thank cod it wasn’t Oakeshott.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:13 pm

  109. I’m more interested in when lardarse gets shucked…

    I don’t want her to. I support the slapper going the full term. This is a complete circus.

    Fair dinkum, I was getting worried there for a while when the lardarse was overseas that I wasn’t getting the frequent laughs.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:13 pm

  110. This is the 16,527th proclamation from Catallaxy readers that the government is about to fall, by my reckoning

    I think the government will live on but you can’t blame people for thinking the government was going to continually fall given the absolute shambles it has been.

    If the PM had any shame (oops – forgot that word is now verboten) she would have gone and seen Billy’s mother-in-law to call for an election on umpteen occasions previous …

    Matt

    9 Oct 12 at 8:13 pm

  111. Of course slipper will vote with the government SteveC. And the opposition will remind everyone whose vote Gillard is relying on.

    SteveC I do hope that the Queen of Emily’s List stands up and announces she is the PM with the confidence of Mr Mussel-man, Shagger Thomson and the rest of the crew from the House of Horrors.

    I’ll enjoy framing that picture. From experience, the longer the stink continues, the bigger the smacking they’ll get from the electorate.

    Token

    9 Oct 12 at 8:13 pm

  112. Burke hasn’t been doing a bad job, I thought. It also means Abbott has the chance to look as if he is resenting being told what to do by a woman, again. Neat.

    steve from brisbane

    9 Oct 12 at 8:13 pm

  113. Well, this is going to be Julia’s Chappaquiddick incident, isn’t it.

    The Oldsmobile is so far underwater that mussels are growing on its flat surfaces……

    Kaboom

    9 Oct 12 at 8:14 pm

  114. Can’t see that anything will change, and Ms Gillard is still superglued to her PM’s chair (like JC says).

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 8:14 pm

  115. Two beautifully apt and prescient statements from Abbott as bookends to Slippery’s career as Speaker.
    On the day The Great Liar appointed Slippery … “Remember, he is her man now. She must answer for him”
    Today in parliament … “This Speaker has failed the character test. This Prime Minister has failed the judgement test”

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:15 pm

  116. Of course slipper will vote with the government SteveC. And the opposition will remind everyone whose vote Gillard is relying on.

    I’m not sure about that.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:15 pm

  117. This parliament is full to the bream with dodgy characters.

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:16 pm

  118. Can’t see that anything will change, and Ms Gillard is still superglued to her PM’s chair (like JC says).

    They will literally have to separate her and the PM’s chair with a blow torch or perform that separation surgery they do on co-joined kids. She ain’t leaving.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:17 pm

  119. Julia is floundering ….

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:17 pm

  120. What? No statement from Gillard about Thomson’s attitude towards women? Or perhaps he was just supporting sole traders? Seriously, the public know the ‘sexist’ card is an utter furphy.

    Nic

    9 Oct 12 at 8:18 pm

  121. Imma crack open a jar of mussels tonight in celebration.

    Don’t panic Labor-inos. It’s ok for me to call female genitalia mussels. Roxon said so.

    JaneS

    9 Oct 12 at 8:19 pm

  122. And let it be recorded that Julia’s narrow-shouldered beta bumboy lickspittle troll, Dumb as Dogshit, was by her side as the whiny little voice at the Cat ’til the last.

    Tom

    9 Oct 12 at 8:20 pm

  123. “of course the spin from Fairfacts will be quite the opposite.”

    As of 9 pm, their I-pad edition was still reporting “Coalition fails to oust Slipper”

    Fingers on the pulse at Fewfacts Meeja yet again

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:20 pm

  124. Gillard defended disgustingly derogatory statements about women and still blames Abbott on porpoise merely to score points. Wonder if her behavior today has her mother’s seal of approval?

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:20 pm

  125. Gab … Having a whale of a time huh?

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:21 pm

  126. Julia is floundering …

    Dude, in my world she’s flourishing. Just think of where she’s got to.

    She becomes a partner in a law firm. She gets booted because she does all this underhanded crap for the married boyfriend. She doesn’t have a job. She gets some sidekick work with the ALP and then climbs the ladder to the big job… fucking up all the way there and when she gets it, she fucks up even more.

    Hayek was right about the left.. the shit really does rise to the top.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:22 pm

  127. The way this thread is going, Tony Burke will have to re-licence the super-trawler.

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:23 pm

  128. Can’t see that anything will change

    Labor will be one sliding toilet door away from losing a vote.

    lotocoti

    9 Oct 12 at 8:23 pm

  129. More fun than a bottle of clams, Leigh.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:24 pm

  130. I think the scales are falling from our eyes in regard to Ms Gillard.

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 8:24 pm

  131. Burke hasn’t been doing a bad job, I thought.

    Fuck off liar-steve®.

    She’s a partisan harridan.

    Just like you.

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 8:24 pm

  132. Groan…..Joe pray that homer doesn’t turn up. he loves a pun

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:25 pm

  133. No need to be koi, Tal. Jump in!

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:26 pm

  134. Julia is floundering ….

    and Rudd is laughing.

    Ivan Denisovich

    9 Oct 12 at 8:26 pm

  135. Anna Burke just got a pay rise. I hope she can now afford to buy some decent threads instead of the stuff out of the St Vinnes seconds bin.

    Tom

    9 Oct 12 at 8:27 pm

  136. Don’t come the raw prawn with us, Gab!

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 8:27 pm

  137. Warms the cockles of your heart this whole affair

    The world will be Slippery’s oyster now

    Thank cod it wasn’t Oakeshott.

    IT, Leigh, Gab, please stop. My abs can’t take any more laughter.

    It also means Abbott has the chance to look as if he is resenting being told what to do by a woman, again.

    Shifter, you on the other hand, please keep digging…
    I can never get enough of your patheticity…speaking of pathetic, where is m0nty?

    Skuter

    9 Oct 12 at 8:27 pm

  138. Labor strategy from tomorrow will be to focus attention on Abbott saying the government is “dying of shame” – a phrase he’s used many times in the past, long before Alan Jones did. The politicisation of John Gillard’s death will continue unabated by that daughter he was so proud of along with her colleagues and media manservants. They have absolutely no shame.

    Feral Abacus

    9 Oct 12 at 8:27 pm

  139. Tal

    I’m wondering if Homer is her adviser. Can you imagine. Just think of that possibility for a second.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:28 pm

  140. At least she washes her hair,Tom

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:28 pm

  141. LOL Candy, now don’t get crabby! hahahahaha

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:28 pm

  142. I can never get enough of your patheticity…speaking of pathetic, where is m0nty?

    He’s busy. He’s on his fourth visit to Krispy Kreams today. Leave him alone, as he’s concentrating on which ones to buy.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:29 pm

  143. Don’t want to go there Joe,
    Oh God Burke is talking about her dead Dad!!!!

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:30 pm

  144. At least she washes her hair,Tom

    That’s not fair Tal.

    Roxoff rubs lanolin in her scalp daily

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 8:30 pm

  145. Oh God Burke is talking about her dead Dad!!!!

    Oh for cod’s hake!

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:30 pm

  146. It also means Abbott has the chance to look as if he is resenting being told what to do by a woman, again.

    Yep, the ALP should be proud – knowingly utilising sham allegations of sexism for tawdry political gain – and backfiring even at that. The feminist movement would be proud too I guess.

    As a male voter the message the ALP is sending me is “If you vote in a woman, don’t ever dare criticise her performance in the role as you will be smeared as a misogynist.”

    Matt

    9 Oct 12 at 8:31 pm

  147. We live in hope that various Fauxfacts cheerleaders filed their copy before Slipper resigned.

    Nic

    9 Oct 12 at 8:32 pm

  148. Anna Burke just got a pay rise. I hope she can now afford to buy some decent threads instead of the stuff out of the St Vinnes seconds bin.

    Can you imagine being married to her and hearing that rasping nosy voice day in day out. I would, without a shadow of a doubt suicided by now.

    In fact I reckon her voice is what hell is in the after life.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:32 pm

  149. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8544976/government-should-have-died-of-shame-abbott

    Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has referenced shock jock Alan Jones’ controversial remarks about Julia Gillard’s late father, saying the government “should already have died of shame”.

    The fucking lies begin.

    The MSM in this country is disgusting.

    Feral Abacus

    9 Oct 12 at 8:32 pm

  150. Tim will have clammy hands going through the closet by now. Better not be wearing a muscle shirt when she gets home.

    Septimus

    9 Oct 12 at 8:32 pm

  151. Just a sting-ray of sunshine ……

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:33 pm

  152. Oh God Burke is talking about her dead Dad!!!!

    Her voice killed him.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:33 pm

  153. Perhaps you could sing us a tune, Gab, to cheer us up.

    “Clam Every Mountain” would be nice.

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 8:33 pm

  154. Gillard now speaking reminding everyone she spoke this morning as a Wymmns Conference and congratulating Burke for being the second wymmn Speaker.

    The hypocrisy is astounding.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:34 pm

  155. Emily’s List are now congratulating each other on breaking through the incompetence barrier. Incompetence will never be a barrier again!

    Tom

    9 Oct 12 at 8:34 pm

  156. Emily’s List are now congratulating each other on breaking through the incompetence barrier. Incompetence will never be a barrier again!

    lol.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:35 pm

  157. Steadman is a shampoo salesman surely he can get Nanny a discount on a couple of bottles

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:35 pm

  158. Abbott reminds all that this parliament now has had three Speakers.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:36 pm

  159. First prize to anyone who can work Patagonian Toothfish into the thread ( in context)

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:37 pm

  160. Steadman is a shampoo salesman surely he can get Nanny a discount on a couple of bottles

    Shampoo is bad for lanolin

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 8:37 pm

  161. They didn’t cast the net very wide for a new speaker.

    Pickles

    9 Oct 12 at 8:37 pm

  162. If I was Abbott’s minder I’d keep a weather eye on Slipper. He may drown his sorrows on a regular basis – and it just may be that he may not be able to exercise his vote on the odd ocasion. And that could embarass Gillard – on the odd ocasion.

    Arnost

    9 Oct 12 at 8:38 pm

  163. Pyno and Abbott – never give a mug an even break!

    Infidel tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 8:39 pm

  164. In her acceptance speech the screeching harpy Burke had to mention her dead father. They’ll be trotting out the stepfathers and fathers-in-law shortly.
    As usual, Tony Abbott spoke with respect and dignity. Business as usual.

    Tracey

    9 Oct 12 at 8:39 pm

  165. Patagonian Toothfish

    Anthony Albasleazy.

    Septimus

    9 Oct 12 at 8:39 pm

  166. It would be very shellfish of me to take over and sing, drowning out all the other comments, Candy.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:39 pm

  167. Oh God Burke is talking about her dead Dad!!!!

    Ahahahahahahaha.

    C.L.

    9 Oct 12 at 8:40 pm

  168. steve from brisbane
    9 Oct 12 at 8:03 pm

    “This is the 16,527th proclamation from Catallaxy readers that the government is about to fall, by my reckoning.

    They’re slow learners…”

    Not as slow as the people who claim “ice free by”.
    Last count was 144,000 and counting.
    You are one of the ignoramuses who believes this fraud.

    handjive

    9 Oct 12 at 8:40 pm

  169. Even Peter Harcher is ripping into Gillard in the SMH.

    graboy

    9 Oct 12 at 8:42 pm

  170. What this thread needs is a Marine Biologist.

    Cold-Hands

    9 Oct 12 at 8:42 pm

  171. Nice of Tone to remind Burke of November last year:

    I nominate the member for Chisholm today because the member for Chisholm is, quite correctly, a member of the government and should take the chair as Speaker. The member for Chisholm has been the Deputy Speaker before in this parliament, from 2008 to 2010. Since that time—since the government did not re-elect her as Deputy Speaker after the minority parliament began—she has served on the Speaker’s panel. I have served with the member for Chisholm on parliamentary committees in this parliament for many years. The member for Chisholm is a member of integrity and honesty who would fill the role of Speaker with absolute aplomb. She deserves to be nominated by the government for Speaker, not by the opposition, but I will nominate her in the absence of the government following the Westminster traditions upon which this parliament is based.

    lotocoti

    9 Oct 12 at 8:42 pm

  172. Madam Speaker, says Albasleazy. Doesn’t he mean Madam Mussel? Hypocrites.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:42 pm

  173. Albanese just spoke outside the house.

    “The whitings on the wall, I thought Peter wanted to
    mullet over, but it was his sole choice, and he’s gone
    to the back bench until the smelt abaits”.

    cynical1

    9 Oct 12 at 8:43 pm

  174. “It would be very shellfish of me to take over and sing, drowning out all the other comments, Candy. ”

    Come on Gab, perhaps a short rendition of “A Stingray to Heaven?”

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 8:44 pm

  175. Seriously – Slipper should have resigned ages ago.
    Now can Craig please resign? And can Glen Stevens please resign? And can someone make sure that Eddie Obeid ends up in jail and Costa, Tripodi and McDonald end up there as well?
    I would be happy then.
    Except one bludger on the public purse got clean away.
    Roozendahl. Anyone know what he is doing now after he ran to NY wanting a job with Murdoch?? (after he made a motza on insider trading on government rezonings??)

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 8:45 pm

  176. Oh God make it stop

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:45 pm

  177. Albanese? …… ahh, sole

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:45 pm

  178. There are no longer any words for this trainwreck of a government.

    Bet Rudd is running the phone red hot right about now, checking numbers.

    Still think that the whiff of a serious challenge by Krudd the Incompetent will cause Juliar the Slapper to call an election just so she can stay on as PM for one more day.

    Mk50 of Brisbane

    9 Oct 12 at 8:46 pm

  179. Okay Candy, how about you join me in “Singing in the rain”? I’m no good soleo.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:46 pm

  180. Georganis nominated as deputy speaker – what is his background??

    Carpe Jugulum

    9 Oct 12 at 8:47 pm

  181. After today does anyone else think that gillards future is firmly in the hands of the union heavies.I expect a decision in the not too distant ….

    max49

    9 Oct 12 at 8:47 pm

  182. Juliar the Snapper more like.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:47 pm

  183. “Singing in the rain

    I’m actually quite good with show tunes – not a bad tenor/baritone IMHO.

    Carpe Jugulum

    9 Oct 12 at 8:49 pm

  184. Alice,

    What did Glenn Stevens do wrong, exactly?

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 8:49 pm

  185. They didn’t cast the net very wide for a new speaker.

    Gillard had to have someone screachier than her and Albo-sleazy.

    Token

    9 Oct 12 at 8:49 pm

  186. Why all the carping?

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:49 pm

  187. The orange roughie’s floundering, it’ll be tough whiting the boat after this shellacking.

    Eddystone

    9 Oct 12 at 8:50 pm

  188. Will Slippery Pete know his newfound plaice?

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 8:50 pm

  189. Abbott might be as happy as a clam but I still bet he only ever comes close and doesnt win

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 8:51 pm

  190. Election betting suspended.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 8:51 pm

  191. No one nominated the member for Muswellbrook as Dep Speaker. Pity.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 8:52 pm

  192. I notice that old Slipper had a stack of typed sheets to use as notes when giving his resignation speech. In other words he must have made up his mind before today’s debate if he had time to write a speech of resignation.

    Even he knew that the ALP is crap, and needed to be shown up for the idiots they are.

    Even the lefties on the ABC are admitting that Gillard has lost both the mporal argument and the pragmatic political one today.

    Rococo Liberal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:52 pm

  193. Pete will miss his Perch

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 8:52 pm

  194. Even the lefties on the ABC are admitting that Gillard has lost both the mporal argument and the pragmatic political one today.

    That’s impossible.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 8:52 pm

  195. where did bolts post on the matter go?

    twostix

    9 Oct 12 at 8:53 pm

  196. Alice,

    What did Michael Costa do wrong?

    He and his wife are recent victims of crime, actually, Alice.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 8:53 pm

  197. He (abbott) just aint the right man to lead the conservatives.
    You got better people if only you didnt spend half the time in delusion about Abbots pulling power.

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 8:53 pm

  198. We do live in interesting times

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:53 pm

  199. Mark points out that the disgusting little pissant Rudd can be expected to detonate the device that destroys this government by forcing Gillard to an early election – if the government doesn’t fall beforehand if it loses a vote on the floor of the house.

    Tom

    9 Oct 12 at 8:53 pm

  200. Abbott might be as happy as a clam

    Is that another euphimism, Alice?

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 8:54 pm

  201. I think Abbott was baiting Gillard but caught Slippery eel instead

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 8:54 pm

  202. Whitlam is in hog heaven this evening

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 8:55 pm

  203. In his resignation speech, Slipper claims to have been unanimously elected Speaker. What rubbish, Christopher Pyne nominated about six Labor MPs beforehand.

    Samuel J

    9 Oct 12 at 8:55 pm

  204. The Member for Bass should be Deputy Speaker

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 8:56 pm

  205. Alice, I’m sick to death of being lectured on the composition of the next conservative government by fucking Marxists.

    Tom

    9 Oct 12 at 8:56 pm

  206. So Anna Bourke is now thew new speaker – wasn’t a tree stump or anvil available?

    Carpe Jugulum

    9 Oct 12 at 8:57 pm

  207. Dot you idiot – dont you read the news?? (what did Costa do wrong?)
    Start with a development on the shores of Pittwater and the shock disgrace of someone who was the Minsiter for lands
    Keep yourself up to date or are you defending the old NSW labor party now Dot? Did you foregt your allegiances long enough to argue with my comment you hypocrite? Oh well I already told you Dot, its no use having political allegiances if you cant smell when there is fresh shit in your own tribal dungheap is there?

    ie Dot says “Costa was victim of crime”. As far as I heard his wife was a victim of crime when she was home alone.

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 8:58 pm

  208. Holy Mackeral!

    What a day!

    Eh?

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 8:58 pm

  209. He (abbott) just aint the right man to lead the conservatives.

    AAAAhhahahahahahahahha

    Abbott owns you body & soul. He hasn’t just got into your head, he has built a condo and is renting out the space.

    Carpe Jugulum

    9 Oct 12 at 8:59 pm

  210. Have you a flathead mAlice?

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 9:00 pm

  211. Tom – Im not a marxist but Marx still makes some modern day economic gurus look almost retarded.

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 9:01 pm

  212. Slippery is partial to Groper

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 9:01 pm

  213. PS Alice – TurnbullTurnbullTurnbull just doesn’t roll of the tongue like AbottAbbottAbbott.

    Time to move on to the next meme.

    I know how about AbbottAbbottAbbott kicks puppies or clubs seals.

    Carpe Jugulum

    9 Oct 12 at 9:02 pm

  214. David Spears, speaking in Washington, was basically saying how dare Slipper waste Gillard’s political capital by resigning hours after her government defended him. He also took issue with Chris Kenny admonishing ‘the’ press gallery. Not a homogeneous bunch of groupthinkers apparently…now some angry banshee is on wailing about Abbott’s misogyny…you gotta love Sky News…

    Skuter

    9 Oct 12 at 9:02 pm

  215. yes, Tal, Whitlam can cross to the west bank confident that he no longer ran the worst government in Australia’s history.

    In fact, I sometimes wonder if that was a key aim of this government all along, what with their Gough worship and all.

    entropy

    9 Oct 12 at 9:02 pm

  216. Slipper’s career is frozen, aka still water.
    Still water runs deep.
    And that’s where the Patagonian Toothfish lives!

    The Punch embarassed itself today.

    pete m

    9 Oct 12 at 9:02 pm

  217. The Member for Bass should be Deputy Speaker

    Hasn’t done anything else so might as well.

    Driftforge

    9 Oct 12 at 9:03 pm

  218. Did you sport a mullett in 70′s London mAlice?

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 9:03 pm

  219. Turnbull for Lib leader is just a red herring.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 9:04 pm

  220. Better a Chilean Sea Bass than the member for Bass.

    Pickles

    9 Oct 12 at 9:05 pm

  221. The Punch embarassed itself today.

    I’m not sure if i should call the article by sharwood as partisan hackerry or dribbling buffoonery.

    I suspect the latter is relevant.

    Carpe Jugulum

    9 Oct 12 at 9:06 pm

  222. It is okay!

    Peter Slipper has been invited to be the coach for this outrageously named team:

    Coach!

    But he does prefer a 2 ball game.

    pete m

    9 Oct 12 at 9:06 pm

  223. you know, Ms Gillard is quite an actress,
    but not quite in the league of Nicole Squidman.

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 9:06 pm

  224. Alice sports a mullet now, JamesK, well at least an intellectual mullet.

    Rococo Liberal

    9 Oct 12 at 9:07 pm

  225. “what did Glenn Stevens do wrong”
    Well, he didn’t call Plod when he was tipped off that there had been some bribery going on within the note printing arm of the RBA.
    He admitted as much in Senate hearings the other day.

    What is disgraceful is that lying ranga and her handbag squad tried to put this onto Costello.
    Yes … their pin-up boy Stevens as Governor of the RBA knew nothing but somehow Costello must have.

    Methinks Glenn’s self promotion as a contender for the Bank of England has come to nought.

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:07 pm

  226. Carpe Ill laugh – like an advertiser who thinks he has the best campaign EVER some in here just cant be critical enough can they?

    I dont think he is going to cut it but I woulnt mind if your party got someone decent to lead. Its a tough choice voting actually these days and I have no problems swinging.

    I just dont like Abott enough. I cant get out of my head the days he ranted and raved and insulted under Howard which was always incredibly rude and obnoxious but then Howard seemed to like to have his verbal attack dogs close by (like Alan Jones). Abbot certainly has moderated his style since then.

    I didnt like that style of leadership personally but I dont see a lot policy wise to distinguish either party that appeals to me.

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 9:07 pm

  227. Alice

    You have the other Costa confused with him.

    When MICHAEL Costa was a union heavy, he tried to earn an income on the property for the union by leasing it to some oddball but docile religious group. No harm there.

    Costa wasn’t a victim of crime by having his house the subject of a home invasion where is wife was present?

    Perhaps (not that I agree), but most men would be very upset about that.

    The other (P) Costa was not a Minister (of Lands) until after M Costa left Parliament. They are not related.

    I hope this helps.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:07 pm

  228. I do fish you’d all stop with the piscine-related puns. Sorry, I’ll show myself trout.

    Andreas

    9 Oct 12 at 9:08 pm

  229. I found out where Mr Slipper got his reference from – reading dirty stories:

    bad boy!

    pete m

    9 Oct 12 at 9:08 pm

  230. Read Dot, read and then read some more.

    You dont even have the right Minsiter for Lands
    Try the name Watkins and keep looking and then look for the links from Costa to Watkins.

    You are on the wrong track as usual Dot

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 9:09 pm

  231. I do fish you’d all stop with the piscine-related puns. Sorry, I’ll show myself trout.

    lol

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 9:09 pm

  232. Was Slippery’s reference to Tim Fisher in his valedictory just another cruel piscine reference?

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:10 pm

  233. He has been skating on thin ice for a while

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:11 pm

  234. mOron, come out and play.

    Tiny Dancer

    9 Oct 12 at 9:12 pm

  235. I hope Gillard is learning her lesson, don’t seek power without a porpoise.

    Andreas

    9 Oct 12 at 9:12 pm

  236. Eel be here soon, Tiny. Snappish as ever.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 9:13 pm

  237. Tom – Im not a marxist but Marx still makes some modern day economic gurus look almost retarded.

    No Alice.

    Marxian theory was mathematically disproven in the mid 20th century by a Japanese economist, Nobuo Okishio.

    By giving a generous assumption about wages (Marx didn’t concede with a more parsimonious model and so if true for Okishio, true for Marx), Okishio proved that one of the major “internal contradictions of capitalism” was false using properties of matrix algebra.

    Marxian economics is as valid as phlogiston theory, Alice.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:13 pm

  238. Rudd will be keen to knock Jules off her perch

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:14 pm

  239. ohhhhh Gaaab..thats a shaggy dog of true distinction

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 9:14 pm

  240. Gillard blathering on congratulating Bruce Scott as Dep Speaker and calling him and his behaviour “gentlemanly”.

    And yet two hours ago she was defending a misogynist who refers to women as c–ts..

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 9:15 pm

  241. Meanwhile, La Trioli is swooning over Bryan Ferry on ABC 1. Mornet sauce all over the place.

    Pickles

    9 Oct 12 at 9:16 pm

  242. I gotta admit I initially thought the Opposition chasing the Government over Slippers messages was a pretty stupid tactic, I mean who gives a shit that he made references to mussels, they’re private messages ffs. If anyone ever got hold of my work emails fuck me dead they’d be in for a show, none of it sackable though, just a lot of foul language shared between the fellas.

    On top of that Gillards reply was actually pretty potent (and if the ALPBC get their way will probably get more air time than the slipper resignation).

    But once again its been proven that Abbotts political ability is incredibly underrated. The man must have seen the fissure opening up and knew it only needed a bit of a prod before the whole thing broke open.

    Jeremiah

    9 Oct 12 at 9:16 pm

  243. I wonder if Emmo does B-52 covers?

    It was a rock lobster
    Motion in the ocean
    His air hose broke
    Lots of trouble
    Lots of bubble
    He was in a jam
    S’in a giant clam
    Down, down
    Let’s rock!
    Boy’s in bikinis
    Girls in surfboards
    Everybody’s rockin’
    Everybody’s fruggin’

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 9:16 pm

  244. Can I just say that the true victim of this sordid affair is the delicious seafood delicacy, the mussel? Its reputation has been thoroughly and unjustly trashed.

    There are few things finer than a huge bowl of chilli mussels and some crusty bread. But now it’s all turned vagina-shaped. For shame!

    oh come on

    9 Oct 12 at 9:16 pm

  245. One of the talking heads on Sky – a polly; didn’t catch the name – reckons Slipper will vote against the government as payback and force a general election.

    Tom

    9 Oct 12 at 9:17 pm

  246. ” Im not a marxist but Marx still makes some modern day economic gurus look almost retarded.”

    Is that your Final Fintasy, Alice?

    candy

    9 Oct 12 at 9:17 pm

  247. So what did Costa actually do wrong, Alice?

    Tony Kelly had a dealing in the land ten years after Costa almost did.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:18 pm

  248. Abbott certainly put Slippery in his plaice

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:18 pm

  249. Dot
    “No Alice.

    Marxian theory was mathematically disproven in the mid 20th century by a Japanese economist, Nobuo Okishio.”

    I dont give a bugger. Im not a marxist. But I said he makes some modern day economic gurus look retarded and into the retarded pile Id drop Alan Greenspan.
    Totally retarded.
    You may not agree but Greenspan was so in love with Greenspan’s own ideas and social contacts he forget to check if his ideas were working.

    They werent.

    You may not agree. You probably wont Dot. Try not to explode in rage. It doesnt become you.

    Goodnight Dot. I need to sleep. My feet are killing me. Ive been on them all day, with a bad headcold.

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 9:18 pm

  250. Now a Nationals MP has won the vote for Deputy Speaker against the ALP candidate.

    This makes the day of fuck up by the ALP complete. My freude has never been so schadened

    Rococo Liberal

    9 Oct 12 at 9:19 pm

  251. “One of the talking heads on Sky – a polly; didn’t catch the name – reckons Slipper will vote against the government as payback and force a general election.”

    Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, Tom.
    Come to think of it neither do crayfish … or prawns …. or oysters.
    Mussels are ambivalent about Yuletide I believe.

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:21 pm

  252. What a day for the Orange Roughie:

    Newspoll 54-46.
    Melham takes his balls and goes home.
    Physical and emotional meltdown in Parliament defending a marmite miner with a salty mouth and a penchant for expense claims.
    Slipper resigns.

    Fuck me lady! It ain’t even hump day yet!

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 9:21 pm

  253. He only took the job because when Julia said “Speaker of the Australian Parliament” it sounded like “Spoiker of the Oysteralian Paarment”.

    Aqualung

    9 Oct 12 at 9:22 pm

  254. I have always loved mussels. The Slipper association serves only to enhance their delicacy and provide another aspect to my enjoyment of them.

    Pickles

    9 Oct 12 at 9:23 pm

  255. But I said he makes some modern day economic gurus look retarded

    It’s easy to pontificate when you are part of the leisure class and die before the world reaps the sickening harvest of your crackpot, anti semitic ramblings.

    Alice I think you are a marxist but don’t know it. Maybe you ought to do an online test?

    I hope this helps.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:23 pm

  256. Leigh, he’s already got his long-service entitlements having been in parliament on and off since the 1980s.

    Tom

    9 Oct 12 at 9:24 pm

  257. The puns, the puns!!

    Please God, make it stop.

    Mk50 of Brisbane

    9 Oct 12 at 9:24 pm

  258. I love mussels but the thought of eating a sea cucumber makes me gag.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 9:25 pm

  259. Gillard today, showing how she stretches the truth. Either that or how big the one that got away was.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 9:26 pm

  260. Fuck me lady! It ain’t even hump day yet!

    Dunno if she does ladies (perhaps even pwong has more taste than that), but provided they are married with kids, isn’t every day hump day for Slappers?

    Mk50 of Brisbane

    9 Oct 12 at 9:27 pm

  261. At least Gillard is getting more efficient, her false dawns now come and go within a single Parliamentary sitting day.

    Jeremiah

    9 Oct 12 at 9:27 pm

  262. Mk50 is having a meltdown. Wobbegong anyone making with the puns.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 9:27 pm

  263. Harpy Burke has just referred to Bruce Scott as the Member for Marinara. Um. Thats Maranoa you sloppy, ignorant thing. And on it it goes…

    Tracey

    9 Oct 12 at 9:27 pm

  264. Slipper lobsters are typically bottom dwellers of the continental shelves, found at depths of up to 500 metres (1,600 ft). Slipper lobsters eat a variety of molluscs, including limpets, mussels and oysters.

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 9:28 pm

  265. Hey Pickles, when are you in town next?

    Mk50 of Brisbane

    9 Oct 12 at 9:28 pm

  266. Orange Roughie indeed!
    Although she looked very much like a red snapper during the debate today.
    And, possibly to become the red herring after the next caucus …. or is that circus …. meeting.

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:28 pm

  267. reckons Slipper will vote against the government as payback and force a general election.

    He can’t unless (two?) others do too.

    twostix

    9 Oct 12 at 9:28 pm

  268. Alice,

    I don’t understand what Costa did wrong considering the ten year gap in dealings and that he was no longer in Parliament and was by then estranged politically and philosophically from his former colleagues.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:28 pm

  269. Gillard today, showing how she stretches the truth. Either that or how big the one that got away was.

    Wasn’t that the one that got away, Gab?

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 9:29 pm

  270. Wobbegong anyone making with the puns.

    NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo……

    (sound of broken sobbing)

    Mk50 of Brisbane

    9 Oct 12 at 9:29 pm

  271. Time for another song.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 9:31 pm

  272. Tom …. LSL aside, Slippery loves the limelight so my guess is he will make a great play of hawking the vote around to maximise attention, but will support budget bills and confidence motions.
    In other words he will be Oakeshott on steroids.

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:33 pm

  273. IT, has Joe figured out the mussel angle yet?

    Tal

    9 Oct 12 at 9:33 pm

  274. It was great to see Abbott go in for the krill ….

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:34 pm

  275. Ah a fellow sandgroper, I see, IT. Good man. We love our mussels. I read somewhere that we eat more of them than the rest of Oz combined.

    oh come on

    9 Oct 12 at 9:35 pm

  276. She is gone!
    Hook, line and speaker

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:35 pm

  277. With all these puns, I can berley take this much longer….

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:36 pm

  278. OK you submarine lot, you’ve got it coming…

    Lardarse must be pining for the valleys:

    Whelk kipper whelkome in the eelside

    Lazlo

    9 Oct 12 at 9:37 pm

  279. IT, has Joe figured out the mussel angle yet?

    He’s Italian. The moment he heard about food he drove to his mum’s and made her cook him dinner.

    Infidel Tiger

    9 Oct 12 at 9:39 pm

  280. Rudd is cruising beneath like a white pointer, so the left faction led by the red lobster Julia, will have little time to mourn eh?

    I wonder if a wave of support would seal the deal.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:41 pm

  281. Its time to do a dolphin dive old slipper the slippery eel has slipped away and it will take a whale to replace him and from what little crustaceans that we can prize from rocks; saddened we make our way home….

    Call a cab and rejoice – its slippers last taxi ride home!!

    Alice

    9 Oct 12 at 9:41 pm

  282. One of the female (journalist?) talking heads on Sky said tonight that Slipper’s resignation would fade from memory, but what swinging voters would remember – and most of them were women, she said – would be Julia’s stirring speech against Abbott. Fair dinkum. Some of these zombies are oxygen-deprived. Any danger they could visit a pub or a shopping centre and talk to real people? Nothing but hate and loathing for what is being inflicted on the country.

    Tom

    9 Oct 12 at 9:42 pm

  283. On a Friday of my choosing in the next month ML .

    Pickles

    9 Oct 12 at 9:43 pm

  284. Hi Alice

    Feeling better?

    Can you explain to me what Costa did wrong given the ten year gap etc? Thanks.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:43 pm

  285. but what swinging voters would remember – and most of them were women, she said – would be Julia’s stirring speech screech against Abbott.

    That’s what most will remember.

    Gab

    9 Oct 12 at 9:44 pm

  286. I have figured this one out.
    Slippery is the victim here.
    You see, the same guy who got a hold of Craig Thomson’s phone and rang up all those hookers has been putting all those …. ahem ….. acquatic anatomical text messages on Slippery’s phone.

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 9:44 pm

  287. What a day for Abbott. Backs the fat arsed lying slag into a corner, only for the prick she defended to resign in fucking shame.

    Thanks harrys on the boat (at 6:38pm) – I read that post first and laughed out loud, then I read the rest of the fun and laughed some more.

    I see that Comrade Slippery Pete’s had a blubber (are these characters all blokes-marrying-blokes woofs now?) as his glittering grubby career, trolling the Cross on Cabcharge late at night, died in shame … as it inevitably would.

    The TV news tonight showed Comrade Bogan Broadasks viciously spitting something out about her dead father, directed at Tony Abbott. She’s unhesitatingly milking that one like the utterly unscrupulous baitch that she is, eh?

    Then I hear some sheila named Burke has had a public blub about her dead father – why? Has having a father die now replaced the “my difficult childhood at the hands of my domineering Dad” card? Yet the ones trotting that out now are all members of the All Men are Bastards Brigade – work that out!?!?

    Mick Gold Coast QLD

    9 Oct 12 at 9:46 pm

  288. Just saw the opening of Lateline and they dubbed someone calling out “where did that phrase come form” over the top of the part where Abbott said “the gov’t should have died of shame”.

    I saw that speech a couple of times and it was not there on any other stations coverage.

    I wonder if Johnathan Holmes wil pick up on this and do his tsk tsk…

    Arnost

    9 Oct 12 at 9:46 pm

  289. Lateline totally fucking up the captions. The ABC is incompetent as well as biased. Now we have handbag Plibersek as the ABC’s chosen one…

    Lazlo

    9 Oct 12 at 9:47 pm

  290. Alice

    The ‘dirt’ I could find on Costa regarding land deals was that Arbib’s wife used to work for him.

    That’s about it.

    Now can you tell me why you think he is such an evil bastard?

    Thanks.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:48 pm

  291. The movie Spartacus must have made a great impression on the young Slipper – particularly this scene with Olivier and Tony Curtis.

    Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters?

    Antoninus: When I have them, master.

    Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails?

    Antoninus: No, master.

    Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?

    Antoninus: No, master.

    Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn’t it?

    Antoninus: Yes, master.

    Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.

    Antoninus: It could be argued so, master.

    Marcus Licinius Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters

    Viva

    9 Oct 12 at 9:48 pm

  292. An absolute aussie rock classic.

    I wonder if Slipper played it in the Parliamentary Merc to show Ashby how young and cool he was and they should go camping together…

    In memory of your meteoric rise and fall, here’s to you, Father Slipper:

    (ignore the ad)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2anvqsDP0ik

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:52 pm

  293. Keep me in teh loop, Pickles.

    Time we had another get-together with Kae and the gang

    Mk50 of Brisbane

    9 Oct 12 at 9:53 pm

  294. Plibersek: gee, Abbott supported Slipper all along, so who can you trust nowadays?

    Lazlo

    9 Oct 12 at 9:55 pm

  295. Yeah. Caxton st. Velvet cigar for an eyeful of it then Gambaros for a hurtful of it.

    Pickles

    9 Oct 12 at 9:56 pm

  296. The modern ALP.

    What a bunch of Moby Dicks

    Rousie

    9 Oct 12 at 9:56 pm

  297. Turns out Penny Wong is a misogynist!

    Trust know 1! The truth is out there, Pilber-buck.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 9:57 pm

  298. Is anyone watching the Member for Echo on Lateline? FMD.

    dover_beach

    9 Oct 12 at 9:58 pm

  299. Every time I see Plibersek I can’t help thinking of that scene in the Downfall video of Rudd’s knifing … That one was a classic

    Arnost

    9 Oct 12 at 9:59 pm

  300. Prediction for next Newspoll:

    ALP primary vote down by 20,000 leagues

    Rousie

    9 Oct 12 at 10:02 pm

  301. Every time I see Plibersek I can’t help thinking of that scene in the Downfall video of Rudd’s knifing…

    “Everyone leave the room for except for Wong, Pilbersek, Roxon, Swan, Shorten, Bryce, Garrett, Oakeshitt, Windsor, Emmerson, Carr, Nairn, Ludwig, Ludwig, Howes, Carr, Clare, Smith, Crean, Combet, Hanson-Young, Milne, Ferguson, Rudd, Snowden, Faulkner, Albanese….

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 10:07 pm

  302. Every time I see Plibersek I can’t help thinking of that scene in the Downfall video of Rudd’s knifing … That one was a classic

    Every time I see the sanctimonious turd I can’t help thinking she’s married to a convicted drug dealer and she’s minister of health.

    JC

    9 Oct 12 at 10:08 pm

  303. Now this is the song for the day.

    nilk

    9 Oct 12 at 10:09 pm

  304. …yes, a fucking nanny statist in the same casting of Roxon…bloody hell. That man fucked up the Education Dept in NSW big time too. How he ever jagged that is beyond me…he is like a barnacle.

    .

    9 Oct 12 at 10:10 pm

  305. Hope Tim wasn’t expecting to Slipper one tonight…

    cynical1

    9 Oct 12 at 10:12 pm

  306. Every time I see the sanctimonious turd I can’t help thinking she’s married to a convicted drug dealer and she’s minister of health.

    JC, I find difficult to keep with Labour Health Ministers and their husband’s drug convictions. Just wanted to check that you we referring to the current federal health minister, not the former NSW health minister?

    Rob

    9 Oct 12 at 10:16 pm

  307. At least Gillard is getting more efficient, her false dawns now come and go within a single Parliamentary sitting day.

    Thanks, Jeremiah. I nearly fell over after reading that. That’s my quote of the moment. LOL!

    nilk

    9 Oct 12 at 10:17 pm

  308. Is it irony that Slippery the Mussell Man is the member for Fisher?

    Leigh Lowe

    9 Oct 12 at 10:20 pm

  309. Plibersek has always had a problem with independent thought. That’s why she has done so well in the ALP.

    H B Bear

    9 Oct 12 at 10:23 pm

  310. Hope Tim wasn’t expecting to Slipper one tonight…

    What a load abalone

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 10:23 pm

  311. Hamish McSporran goes back to the drawing board.

    Again.

    H B Bear

    9 Oct 12 at 10:24 pm

  312. Pete Scampi in the shower with the door open but Ashby didn’t wanna.

    JamesK

    9 Oct 12 at 10:28 pm

  313. Clam every mountain
    Ford every stream
    Flyfish every rainbow
    ’til you find your bream

    GrantB

    9 Oct 12 at 10:51 pm

  314. Oh Lawdy. :-)

    If there is ever a Nobel Prize given for schadenfreude, gloating, guffawing and horrible fishy puns, the Catallaxy Collective will win it hands down.

    Outstanding effort, peeps.

    I haven’t chortled so much since hoWARd blitzed Latham.

    Pedro the Ignorant

    9 Oct 12 at 10:58 pm

  315. I think even Alberici knew the ALP were screwed on this one, unusually probing questions for Plibersek

    Jeremiah

    9 Oct 12 at 11:28 pm

  316. “At least Gillard is getting more efficient, her false dawns now come and go within a single Parliamentary sitting day.”

    I second nilk, Jeremiah, that was perfect.

    I do enjoy the witch’s continuing personal discomforts, the sleepless nights and scurrying about to appear busy but glancing over her shoulder all the while at Comrade Dear Leader (in exile) to see what he’s doing now … and at Comrades ShortOne, Robert McClelland, Martin Ferguson and Senator Richo (retd).

    One can only but imagine how miserable and debilitated she will feel first thing tomorrow morning. I hope it is much, much worse than I can envisage.

    She would not have one genuine ally amongst the people she works with every day – how delicious is that?!

    Mick Gold Coast QLD

    9 Oct 12 at 11:28 pm

  317. She would not have one genuine ally amongst the people she works with every day.

    Too bloody right. She’s there because they’re out of options and have decided to play the female card. Too late to back out now! How pathetic it must be knowing that the only genuine political asset she has is the mussel between her legs.

    Jeremiah

    9 Oct 12 at 11:43 pm

  318. Bolt collects the Canberra Press Gallery’s statements applauding Slipper’s appointment as Speaker as a masterstroke ready for comparison with their statements today. I wonder how many have the intellectual honesty to admit they were wrong?

    Cold-Hands

    10 Oct 12 at 12:59 am

  319. its like a Greek tragedy…..

    not current but past history

    jean

    10 Oct 12 at 11:25 am

  320. Bolt mentions that Windsor pushed Slipper out but supported the govt on the vote. He reads that as a slap to Abbott, but the weird thing to me is that Windsor didn’t tell the govt that he was going to force slipper to resign. If he’d done that before the vote then the govt would have known that they needed to bin the grub. Was windsor just stupid, or fucking over both sides?

    Pedro

    10 Oct 12 at 1:03 pm

  321. stupid, Pedro

    val majkus

    10 Oct 12 at 1:14 pm

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