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Jovial Monk
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by Jovial Monk » Sun Oct 11, 2009 4:17 pm
The ALP govt just sat back this week so the media spotlight was solely on the Fibs tearing themselves apart. Then, with exquisite timing, right after the WA Fibs gave Truffles a slap across the face re the ETS, Swanny announces an $8Bn investment in mortgage securities to help the smaller lenders compete against the banks. Just q u i e t l y getting on with business. Rudd was asked if he was hiding from the media to highlight the Fibs' conniptions and said "No, been working on a lot of policy stuff, GFC. ETS, NBN etc." Quiet, business-like, disciplined government. Must burn the Fibs up
Rudd is sitting real pretty, Leader of the only country not to go into recession, the first country to start raising interest rates from 'emergency' levels. He will get his ETS and it will be ramped up progressively. That and his G20 triumph will lead to a Copenhagen success (I really, really, hope, fucking frightening when you see the polar ice and Greenland icesheets disappearing) which will really give him a deserved smashing win at the 2010 election.
But the discipline is the foundation.
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The Artist formerly known as Sappho
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by The Artist formerly known as Sappho » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:24 pm
How do you feel now about Rudd and this Party discipline, the Copenhagen failure and the second speed economy stagnating Monk?
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Aussie
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by Aussie » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:12 pm
Ha, good trawl Coyote. Cheapish shot, but relevant.
But the discipline is the foundation.
I have a close old school friend who walks the secret halls with these blokes in Canberra, and he (a Labor voter) makes the erudite comment that while Turnbull lost his job for remaining principled, Rudd lost his for failing to remain principled.
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Jovial Monk
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by Jovial Monk » Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:55 pm
How do I feel?
I look at a minority govt and see it has managed to pass 158 major pieces of legislation.
Undisciplined Oppn waved through “class warfare” changes to family tax benefits because the shambles couldn’t find savings elsewhere.
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The Artist formerly known as Sappho
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by The Artist formerly known as Sappho » Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:29 pm
Jovial Monk wrote:How do I feel?
I look at a minority govt and see it has managed to pass 158 major pieces of legislation.
Do you believe that a good Govt. is judged by the volume of new laws it creates?
"Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments." ~Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson
"The more laws the more offenders." ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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Jovial Monk
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by Jovial Monk » Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:37 pm
It is a reformist govt, of course it will pass a heap of laws.
Some big ones still to come. CT/ETS, plain packaging, MRRT etc.
More Bills about the NBN passed this week. All Oppn amendments were lost—a crap effort in such an evenly balanced House.
Next year will be bedding all this down.
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by Aussie » Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:41 pm
I suppose, if you look at it a very broad basis, what we have now is very disciplined, given the minority the ALP found themselves in. To progress as far as they have, and an element of that is the volume of legislation successfully enacted, does indicate very sound discipline.
The carriage or otherwise of the ETS policy to be announced on Sunday will be a valid litmus test.
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Jovial Monk
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by Jovial Monk » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:08 pm
It is all the more remarkable because up until 1 July the govt did not control the Senate.
Gillard and Curtin, both managed to steer contentious Bills through a hostile Senate.
I think Gillard will join Curtin in the very small cohort of very good PMs. Curtin learned from Scullion’s failures, Gillard no doubt from Rudd. Mainly, I think Gillard is just a better administrator and negotiator than Rudd.
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The Artist formerly known as Sappho
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by The Artist formerly known as Sappho » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:12 pm
Jovial Monk wrote: Mainly, I think Gillard is just a better administrator and negotiator than Rudd.
So why the high praise for Rudd when he was leader? How do you feel about him now?
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Jovial Monk
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by Jovial Monk » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:35 pm
I feel happy and grateful that Rudd got rid of the Rodent! But he was no administrator and had cut himself off from Party and even his own Dept head so he had to go.
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