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ABC on Wayne Swan

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Written by Sinclair Davidson

February 15th, 2013 at 9:31 pm

Posted in Federal Politics

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  1. Beyond incompetent just about sums this fraud up.

    How the hell did we go from Keating and Costello to this? What great sin have we committed to explain the Labor Party inflicting this thing upon us?

    Johno

    15 Feb 13 at 9:49 pm

  2. It’s just appalling.

    I will cut Swan some slack on the 5.1/5.4 thing.

    People misspeak – as I think he did on this occasion.

    C.L.

    15 Feb 13 at 9:50 pm

  3. Yes – the 5.1/5.4 thing isn’t important – the getting the mining tax so wrong, getting the budget so wrong and now the $4 billion carbon tax hole are serious problems.

    Sinclair Davidson

    15 Feb 13 at 9:53 pm

  4. Cut him some slack?
    No part of this whistling flatulence passed off as ministerial thought was worth the time to listen.

    WhaleHunt Fun

    15 Feb 13 at 9:54 pm

  5. The ABC have just figured out that Swan is an imbecile?

    took their time…

    papachango

    15 Feb 13 at 9:56 pm

  6. Quite possibly the most lacklustre dinosaur in Ozdrayleean political history.

    Seriously, whose c*ck did he suck to get where he is now?

    Rabz

    15 Feb 13 at 9:56 pm

  7. Woine’s song…

    Rabz

    15 Feb 13 at 9:58 pm

  8. Uhlmann’s closing observation: Swan’s most trenchant critics are behind him … on the Labor backbench. He and she will be gone in weeks, not months. A compromise candidate (Carr?) will take the lemmings to the election apologising for their existence to see how many can save their super.

    Tom

    15 Feb 13 at 10:08 pm

  9. I visited a friend recently who bought this little fellow at Bunnings. He said it reminds him of The World’s Greatest Treasurer, wooden head ‘n’ all. Goose Swansteen.

    Tintarella di Luna

    15 Feb 13 at 10:09 pm

  10. This is a redux of 1975

    Louis Hissink

    15 Feb 13 at 10:10 pm

  11. Wayne Swan personifies Jim Hacker in modern day parliament. To put it in Yes Minister terms he’s “gone native”… Treasury know he’s their man.

    It’s not that he’s unqualified, it’s that the ALP are reckless enough to nominate him for a role in which he’s completely ignorant and out of his depth.

    The mispeaking today in parliament isn’t the issue, it’s as Sinc said above; it’s everything he’s done to this point.

    Poida

    15 Feb 13 at 10:10 pm

  12. I dunno, if the ALP are the trade-union party and most of its members are in the PS, then aren’t Swann’s policies basically those of his support base?

    Louis Hissink

    15 Feb 13 at 10:13 pm

  13. 2 things.

    1. Matthias Corman has great hair.
    2. Is Swanny on suicide watch?

    Infidel tiger

    15 Feb 13 at 10:14 pm

  14. 1975?
    Cairns thought Cairns was competent. Not even the whistling flatulence himself thinks he is competent.

    WhaleHunt Fun

    15 Feb 13 at 10:15 pm

  15. I really hope Swan hangs in there, along with Gillard. Come September they’ll get the worst thumping in history.

    Australia needs a decent Opposition as well as a decent government, but at the moment they couldn’t do either.

    DavidLeyonhjelm

    15 Feb 13 at 10:17 pm

  16. Swann and Gillard might have signed the MRRT documentation but as they are intellectually incapable of framing such an administrative device, I would start to wonder what role Ken Henry played in this farce, and then wonder, why he was put out to pasture subsequently.

    Louis Hissink

    15 Feb 13 at 10:18 pm

  17. Very humourous, Tinta. Now put the proper photo back in its proper place.

    Tom

    15 Feb 13 at 10:19 pm

  18. A compromise candidate (carr?) will take the lemmings to the election

    Tommy, you’ve got to be joking!

    Rabz

    15 Feb 13 at 10:19 pm

  19. Let’s face it. the train has crashed. We are past the point of impact.

    All we are doing now is watching the locomotive concertina and seeing the rest of the carriages start to derail.

    A gorgeous orgy of horror awaits.

    A game of jenga is just like this. I wonder which block will be the “one”.

    Mark

    15 Feb 13 at 10:21 pm

  20. Whale – careful, or I’ll be forced to bring my red dullard gravatar back…

    Rabz

    15 Feb 13 at 10:22 pm

  21. Hi Tom I’ve been trying for three weeks to get that photo up it’s just soooo Swan. I would prefer to have one of Swan trying to use his body abacus but there’s only so much the already depressed Australian public can bear.

    Cheers back to moon-bathing for me.

    Tintarella di Luna

    15 Feb 13 at 10:27 pm

  22. Look at all those nasty, stony-faced harridans sitting behind Wayne Swan. It must be hard for someone lead a functional life when they are filled with so much hatred.

    Fisky

    15 Feb 13 at 10:30 pm

  23. Crashes – was parked at the Havelock-Hay street traffic lights this pm, me in LH lane wanting to turn left into single direction (right to left) Hay street.

    Little red car coming from left (against traffic flow)wanting to proceed rightwards into Havelock Street only to meet oncoming traffic.

    Crash, and being in the front row, literally, and watching light cars being impacted and then moving chaotically, sharpens the mind somewhat. No one injured, thankfully, and last memory of two young people arguing over the accident’s occurrence.

    Louis Hissink

    15 Feb 13 at 10:31 pm

  24. Sorry i only lasted 1:12 into the link.

    The rot started with the alpbc talking head – “underperformance of the mining tax”

    FFS the lying toerags, couldn’t they have simplified it to ‘Shane Wands latest clusterf^<k'.

    Carpe Jugulum

    15 Feb 13 at 10:34 pm

  25. you’ve got to be joking!

    The object is not to win, Rabzie, but to maximise the parliamentary super entitlement and minimise the number who will have to be given jobs by the ALP national treasury, which will be broke, and the Tasmanian government, which will be the last of the state sinecures. Bob is just the type of loser the doctor ordered.

    Tom

    15 Feb 13 at 10:42 pm

  26. Look at all those nasty, stony-faced harridans sitting behind Wayne Swan. It must be hard for someone lead a functional life when they are filled with so much hatred.

    Anyone see the movie, The Devils Advocate, which was about Lucifer as a top of the line NYC criminal lawyer?

    The harridans behind Shane reminded me of those hanging around Al Pacino’s character in the movie occasionally showing their fangs.

    Jc

    15 Feb 13 at 11:01 pm

  27. “This is a redux of 1975″

    1975 is starting to look like the good old days/

    Paul

    15 Feb 13 at 11:06 pm

  28. Bob is just the type of loser the doctor ordered.

    One of my best mates (nowadays a very successful NSW PS careerist with indelible blood links to the pardee) used to call him* “the fascist spastic dork”**.

    Loved, bobby aint.

    *When premier of NSW, (AKA “Corruptus“).

    **Leftists just lerve their abuse, pardicularly of their own…

    Rabz

    15 Feb 13 at 11:18 pm

  29. “bob is just the type”.
    Unless Bob gets sucked into the ICAC washing machine. Love to see a professional barrister cut his fins and throw him back to bleed and be eaten by his kind.

    WhaleHunt Fun

    15 Feb 13 at 11:21 pm

  30. I still marvel that the ALP in all its wisdom thought they could impart this ungracious little turd on us as treasurer with impunity. Once can only hope that Shane Wand and his awful boss are the final chapter of the most shameful political movement in Australian history.

    big dumb fu

    15 Feb 13 at 11:29 pm

  31. Rabz,

    Corruptus

    Wrong link?

    Septimus

    15 Feb 13 at 11:40 pm

  32. Quite possibly the most lacklustre dinosaur in Ozdrayleean political history.

    Seriously, whose c*ck did he suck to get where he is now?

    Julia’s

    Rob

    15 Feb 13 at 11:42 pm

  33. We must work to shape the narrative so as to make the ALP forever toxic. The angle to take here is that Labor have now forced three completely dysfunctional leaders on the public in a row. Latham in 2004, Rudd in 2007, and now Gillard. These people are totally unusual, even mentally-unbalanced, from professional backgrounds that are alien to the experience of ordinary Australians. They were the best that Labor had to offer in successive elections.

    Once Labor are thrown out, the public must be reminded of this over and over again. Labor are not a party of ordinary people, but of creeps, psychopaths, home-wreckers and the sorts of people best kept far away from small children. Why just look at those they have presented as fit candidates for Prime Minister.

    Fisky

    15 Feb 13 at 11:46 pm

  34. Bill Ludwig’s hand puppet is looking like the true intellectual pygmy he has always been. BHP, Rio and Xstrata saw The Goose and Ferguson coming a mile off – Gillard’s only requirement for the MRRT was that it wasn’t on the front page of tomorrow’s paper.

    They were stitched up – just as the Goose did to KRuddy when he deposited the Wombat Whisperer’s original mining super profits tax in the nest a year earlier.

    I just want them all gone.

    H B Bear

    15 Feb 13 at 11:49 pm

  35. Septimus – “Corruptus” was our nickname for NSW based on the famed Moir cartoons of just before the beginning of “labor inc” in NSW.

    Rabz

    15 Feb 13 at 11:51 pm

  36. Rob – I’ll pay that!

    :)

    Rabz

    15 Feb 13 at 11:51 pm

  37. Once Labor are thrown out, the public must be reminded of this over and over again.

    Tattooing Labor voters is probably the easiest and fairest way. In fact, I see no alternative.

    Infidel Tiger

    15 Feb 13 at 11:52 pm

  38. Fisky, you evil bastard – keep up the good work, Squire!

    Rabz

    15 Feb 13 at 11:54 pm

  39. Tattooing Labor voters is probably the easiest and fairest way. In fact, I see no alternative.

    Like this

    Splatacrobat

    15 Feb 13 at 11:56 pm

  40. It looks to me as if the scapegoat for the last 5 years of Labor stuff ups has been found. Gillards legacy will be defended, Swan’s won’t. In 20 years time they’ll be saying if only Julia had a decent treasurer she would have fulfilled her great destiny.

    Super D

    16 Feb 13 at 3:53 am

  41. Parkinson’s statement to the committee had echoes of Rumsfeld’s known knowns and unknown unknowns, for which he was ridiculed by the media there and here – despite being way more competent than any current member of the US Executive.
    As a youngster witnessing the goings on in 1975, the media told me that Gough was heroic and that Fraser was a slimy no-good rule bender. Subsequent election wins did nothing to assuage the media, who continued to identify Fraser as a right wing death beast until he was beaten by Hawke’s mob. We now know that he was nothing of the sort, and if anything was too weak and lefty.

    Blogstrop

    16 Feb 13 at 6:46 am

  42. The Cat crowd identified that the Treasurer was a Goose, not a Swan, way before the rest of the commentariate.

    The media is now turning on the ALP as the ALP turns on itself. This could lead to a thumpingof epic proportions.

    It is remarkable that the media were able to sustain Swan as the worlds best treasurer and Gillard as the great negotiator myths for so long in the face of such overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

    John Comnenus

    16 Feb 13 at 7:52 am

  43. the media were able to sustain Swan as the worlds best treasurer and Gillard as the great negotiator

    Yep; and, as was the case with Rudd, once Swan is rightfully consigned to the rubbish bin, his former colleagues, followed at long last by brave journalists, will rush to provide details of how they knew he was mad, bad and irritating to know all along.

    Deadman

    16 Feb 13 at 8:10 am

  44. As for Gillard, once she’s out of the Lodge, a few former friends will suddenly recall that, my gosh, come to think of it, they do in fact have a few letters and old memoranda and bank deposit slips here and there which will help have her prosecuted and convicted.

    Deadman

    16 Feb 13 at 8:14 am

  45. BHP, Rio and Xstrata saw The Goose and Ferguson coming a mile off –

    ..and smiled when he stood on top of the trap door.

    Tapdog

    16 Feb 13 at 8:31 am

  46. Marries Kloppers must say that you only get one Swan in a lifetime to reprise the old Kerry Packer saying that you only get one Bond in a lifetime.

    John Comnenus

    16 Feb 13 at 8:35 am

  47. There is a huge disconnect between what Swan says and what he does. The media concentrates on what he says, whilst we concentrate on what he does.

    Swan has been saying one thing and doing something else ever since he became Treasurer. Parts of the media are finally waking up to his deceit – that he really doesn’t care about achieving a surplus at all. He really believes in big spending and wealth distribution, and all his words over the last few years have been a smoke screen to hide his true intent.

    boy on a bike

    16 Feb 13 at 9:42 am

  48. Boy,

    You forgot to tell us what his intent is!

    I don’t believe you, because the Goose is incapable of achieving any intended outcome. That would indicate competence, and the Goose shows none.

    John Comnenus

    16 Feb 13 at 9:47 am

  49. Swan is like a bloke that publicly deplores violence against women, and then goes home and beats his wife.

    His intent is to spend as much of our money as he can get away with on his favoured constituents.

    boy on a bike

    16 Feb 13 at 11:58 am

  50. Wayne Swan personifies Jim Hacker in modern day parliament.

    Don’t know about that. In one episode a drunken Hacker back in his flat, lounging with glass in hand, ruminates on the nature of government and morality. He believes that he too has become a “moral vacuum”. However, wife Annie reassures him that he is more a whisky priest: unlike Sir Humphrey, at least he knows when he has done the wrong thing. Unlike Swan.

    Viva

    16 Feb 13 at 12:55 pm

  51. BHP, Rio and Xstrata saw The Goose and Ferguson coming a mile off

    HBB, you are so right. Once I spent a day in a meeting with Kloppers. Formidable. Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. The rest join the ALP.

    Bruce

    16 Feb 13 at 12:58 pm

  52. Swan is a model of a modern ALP treasurer.
    Previous treasurers
    On the record of long term prosperity, Fadden, Howard and Costello. It seems.

    stackja

    16 Feb 13 at 1:44 pm

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