Your thoughts on the GREENS ?

[Hebe]

Only honest party in government.

[Rorschach]

In one word?
Wankers...

[Hebe]

But HONEST wankers.

[IQS.RLOW]

Far from honest. They lie on a daily basis...every single one of them

[Rorschach]

But HONEST wankers.

DELUDED Wankers.

[Rorschach]

Lucas, that's probably the best, and most truthful thing The Chaser boys have ever done.

But it really should be in Politics...

[Super Nova]

Green policy while in the beginning was founded by strong principles and has lost it's way by trying to compete in areas of policy that they know square root of fuck all about.

They should return to being a single issue party and leave the heavy lifting to the grown ups.

[Neferti]

Green policy while in the beginning was founded by strong principles and has lost it's way by trying to compete in areas of policy that they know square root of fuck all about.

They should return to being a single issue party and leave the heavy lifting to the grown ups.

Agreed. I know lots of people who vote Green, they still think it is all about the Environment, furry animals and so forth. I care about the Environment and furry animals but would never, ever vote Green.

[Rorschach]

Greens fail to grasp gravity of their moment
• by: Tim Blair
• From: The Daily Telegraph
• December 26, 2011 9:05AM
THE Australian Greens this year had the chance to prove they'd matured as a political force.

Handed an unanticipated level of power due to the lotto-like results of the 2010 election, Bob Brown's holy eco-mites could have demonstrated gravitas to match the gravity of their moment.

Oh, who am I kidding? The Greens are a philosophically and ethically scrambled crew of reality-denying leftist drones led by a pensioner who carries on like a first-year arts student. We all knew what we were going to get from the Greens in 2011, and those dummies duly delivered.

Leader Brown began the year with a slur against the Australian coal industry, which he claimed was responsible for the deadly Queensland floods.

``It's the single biggest cause -- burning coal -- for climate change and it must take its major share of responsibility for the weather events we are seeing unfolding now,'' he said.

Brown also told the ABC: ``The coal industry, burning coal here in Australia or exporting it for burning overseas, is a major contributor to global warming therefore to the catastrophic weather effects we're seeing around the world. It should pay its due.''

The Greens subsequently put out a devious press release (``WHAT DID BOB BROWN REALLY SAY ABOUT THE FLOODS?'') that attempted to paint Saint Bob as the victim of a media beat-up. Apparently it's the hate media's fault when Brown says stupid, painfully opportunistic things during a time of national tragedy and those comments are reported.

Leave them in local councils and Greens will just ruin garbage collection and make fools of themselves by trying to influence Middle Eastern politics. Not much harm done there, except to the political ambitions of the particular Greens involved. (Local careers ended too.)

Green anti-Israel activist Fiona Byrne, who failed to win a state seat in the 2011 NSW election, later declined to run again as Marrickville mayor because, she said, $47,000 plus a car wasn't enough to feed her family.

But elevate them to national level and Greens run into serious issues that more clearly expose their ideological goofiness. Having opened the year with a flood-based assault on coal, the Greens closed 2011 with an utterly cold defence of asylum seeker policies that have led many hundreds of people to their deaths.

This time Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young led the way. The Greens are given to sweeping moral condemnations of their political opponents, especially conservatives. In the wake of the latest asylum seeker drownings, however, it was Hanson-Young who had the moral case to answer.

Asked if the Greens felt any responsibility for the deaths, Hanson-Young said: ``Of course not. Tragedies happen, accidents happen.''

And there you go.

Former Labor leader Mark Latham is inclined towards freedom of speech, but the Greens' blind arrogance is beyond his limits of tolerance. ``These people should be silenced. There should be a way of shutting them up,'' Latham seethed, with good reason. ``It's a moral outrage they talk this way and they are allowed to pose in the public arena as compassionate people, so-called left-wing.''

Even Robert Manne, one of the weepiest of Australia's leftists, now knows that onshore processing is busted. ``The Left has been unwilling to concede that the Pacific Solution succeeded in deterring the boats,'' he wrote last Thursday. ``The Left's unwillingness to acknowledge the obvious has been of great political significance.''

The obvious continues to elude Hanson-Young. ``You know the reason people engage people smugglers, Jon, is because they have no other option,'' she told ABC interviewer Jon Faine last week. This is not so. Those who arrive by boat from Indonesia pay up to $5000 each, which is massively more than an airfare. Why do they take the deadlier option? Because air travel requires documentation, which makes it easier to investigate the claims of those pursuing Australian residency.

Greens and others who back onshore processing prefer not to dwell on this.

Rather, they want to outsource Australia's immigration responsibilities to people smugglers and have matters rely on a simple rule: make it as far as Indonesia and you're in. As Hanson-Young puts it: ``We need to be responding to the needs of asylum seekers.''

Incredibly, as the fatalities increase and almost everyone with the ability to count now urges a return to previously successful methods to cope with asylum seekers, Hanson-Young seeks to rewrite history. ``I don't think we should be in any way going back to the failed policies of the Howard government,'' she said in July.

Hanson-Young is just as confused in other policy areas. In her most recent column for Melbourne's Age, the 30-year-old Adelaide University graduate boasted: ``The Greens stuck to our 2010 federal election promise that we would legislate to put a price on carbon pollution. As everyone knows, the price was part of the agreement we struck in negotiating the formation of government with Julia Gillard.''

Which forced Gillard into breaking her 2010 federal election policy not to introduce a carbon tax and began the government's poll plunge. Final word goes to an Age online reader, who added this to Hanson-Young's column: ``I sit here in open-mouthed amazement I don't think I've ever seen such a deluded person, in or out of parliament.''

[Super Nova]

Lucas, that's probably the best, and most truthful thing The Chaser boys have ever done.

But it really should be in Politics...

My bad I thought the greens were an off *holds nose* topic .

Where did the term "My bad" come from?

I here is everywhere these days.

Lucas, where did you pick this term up from, do you remember?