A responsible Opposition

[Jovial Monk]

Shaun Carny in the Age:

Until now, the consensus view of the regrettably-named Utegate has been that Turnbull’s greatest mistake was in being impulsive on June 19 by calling for Rudd and Swan to resign. Earlier that day, Grech had given testimony to a Senate committee that portrayed Rudd as a liar. Turnbull, fired up by Grech’s appearance, had supposedly overreached with his resignation call.

What we’ve seen in the past 24 hours calls for a new assessment. Turnbull’s grand misjudgment was not in relying on Grech - although that was clearly ill-advised - but in believing that Rudd, the former bureaucrat addicted to process, with his dreams of being a player on the world stage, would endanger his life’s work by doing something as mundane as propping up a car dealer.

Shaun finishes with:

It does come down to judgment. Even if Grech’s previous gifts had been good quality, the story about Rudd throwing away his prime ministership in return for the loan of a 13-year-old ute from John Grant was too good to be true. If Turnbull can restore his public standing from here, it will be the greatest political recovery in modern politics.[/quote[

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/racing ... tml?page=1

No judgement: Truffles is not fit to be PM. Truffles is also the ultimate narcissist.

Truffles & Lucy were two of the co-founders of Ozemail, so why could they not know the email was forged?

[Leftofcentresalterego]

I think I hear the bell tolling for Malcom.

[Ethnic]

It's not looking too good right now. I agree he needs to go, he was a disaster from the start. But who shall replace him?

[Leftofcentresalterego]

The rumour is that Andrew Robb is going to have a shot at it. He needs a personality transplant but apparently they think that they will "lose less badly" with him at the helm.

[Jovial Monk]

Yeah, the "safe pair of hands" hypothesis.

He needs to keep thumping the debt & deficit line--one of Truffles' big mistakes was to veer away from there onto Utegate--and instead of opposing for oppositions sake work with the govt. Rudd is so popular that mindless opposition will seriously piss off those 66% who vote Rudd as PPM.

He needs a personality transplant, that or just keeping his speeches etc BRIEF! Gawd how he waffles on and on and on and. . . .