The dying days of the Fourth Reich: it's the 2007 AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION

He's just a stooge in The Plan:

November 07 - Ruddster wins election.
December 07 - Ruddster is "assassinated".
January 08 - Comrade Gillard, Beloved Mother of the Nation, decrees that the Socialist Republic of Australia will nationalize every Bunnings Warehouse.

"Well, I think he might just be a little to the left of folks like Tony Abbott, Kevin "Enoch" Andrews and our old favourite, Wilson "Ironbar" Tuckey."

And the judges have called for the developed print....

Rudd will develop a very mildly socialist leaning or two once he's safely in situ. I hope. He'd damned well better, anyway.

Aren't you worried that K to the R seems like a bigger conservative than anyone in the Liberal camp?

Oh come on. The chance of anyone being more conservative than Howard is so tiny it's not worth thinking about.

Here's a useful little swing-o-meter tool gadet:

http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/

*gadget

Rudd continues to turn down Howard's stacked debate.

Brilliant.

But think of the children!

(overboard)

Status is at play here. In 1998, 2001 and 2004, Howard had the high status position.

Rudd has taken that away. Since December, Rudd has very much been in the high status position, with Howard and his minions darting around him trying to throw him off-course. Rudd and the ALP have not been moved by this.

Monday's tax policy was the culmination of the Coalition's low-status behaviour: desperately chucking big money out there to blind everyone, then bullying Rudd and Swan into leaping early. Fortunately the ALP has said it will not move until it's ready - again, staying resolute, in control, relegating the Liberals to low status.

Howard's televised debate tactic is the same, and this is why it's absolutely crucial that Rudd stands his ground and refuses to attend a loaded debate. By refusing and sticking to his terms he remains high status, and as long as he remains high status he has immense power.

I should add that 2004's violent Latham-Howard handshake swung Latham even further into the low status position (i.e. publicly losing his cool), and from that point it was all over.

hahaha oh guys

Almy, that makes sense.

JH is not cuet enuff to be lolcat

lolbaboon perhaps

Experts predict the death of the entire Liberal party (state and federal) if Howard loses this election

John Hewson's hacking into Howard for being an extremist too. Brilliant reading.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/07/wilson_tuckey_narrowweb__300x460,0.jpg

can i has aborgine to tie down and beat with ironbars

Y'know, they COULD be right that a massive split could happen in the Liberal Party. I often wonder what the wets/moderates will do without John Howard who is the only reason why the party has stayed stable on a Federal level. Combine that with the shift to the far-right and the party being totally fucked on a State level in, er, pretty much every state.

MAYBE DON CHIPP MIGHT COME BACK FROM THE DEAD??

I'm so pissed at what Howard has done to that party. Not that I'm a raving Lib or anything but at least it once understood social responsibility to a degree, and didn't go round abusing gheys and chinamans and everything else it doesn't understand.

Before he got into power I was warned by a friend who said he'd do all this. At the time I thought he was ranting.

As Menzies biggest fanboy, Howard being the one to bring about the annihilation of the Liberal party as an appealing irony.

Just to backtrack a bit... the West Australian is CLEARLY the worst newspaper in the nation by a long shot. REF: Ben Cousins in DRUGS SHOCKAH hysteria knocking any other 'news' like federal election off the perch

Do you know the biggest news story the Herald Sun has ever published?

War in Iraq?
World Trade Center?

No, SIXTEEN pages of Wayne Carey rooting Anthony Stevens' wife.

I wouldn't expect any less from those fine publications.

I just looked at all those LOLpollies pictures and they are *so fucking dreadful* that I'm no longer voting Greens in the Upper House.

I did chuckle at this one, through...

Howard has told Rudd to 'grow up.' Gillard has responded by calling him out for schoolboy tactics, retaining the high ground.

I'm telling ya, status is where it's at.

Hockey calls unions irrelevant, which explains why he's attacking them. He looks better with green horns.

"So: tax cuts will save the day for the liberals? What do you think? They can always renege on all promises after the election, as is traditional."

Well, they did say _if_ the strong economic growth continues, so when that inevitably peters out, they can fuck their promises right off the way they always do.

Got a SSAE envelope from bloody Alexander Downer yesterday, along with various bullshit screeds. Our dog once crapped on his front lawn. I wonder if he can be persuaded to crap into an envelope?

Alexander Downer is a talking pudding

who travelled back in time for some reason

to fetch his party leader frin the 19th century obv

from

Housing affordability figures and IMF world economic outlook report both released today. Both grim. The former makes the government look ignorant, the latter makes it look impetuous.

Oh and for all Costello's cries of GILARD OMG COMUMISM he was once a member of Australian Young Labor and did the same student union work as Gillard.

http://reasonsyouwillhateme.com/images/dfiu.jpg

How's the situation in the seat of Bennelong these days?

Last I heard [1? week ago] McKew was winning by a clean margin.

That is so fucking sweet.

i don't think it's quite so clean now, but who knows what will happen.

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7303/071018homehowardmarx1bcww6.jpg

Any way he's wiped out is fine by me. General election loss, Bennelong loss, errant bus, whatever.

James Morrisson are YOU from THE ADL??

Now being bombarded by anti-union ads every ad break. How antiquated is the liberal approach? These anti-union scare mongering tactics - I just can't see them cutting any ice with the under 50's.

I'm really not sure whats wrong with unions. Can someone explain?

if you believe the dickheads over at gearslutz, they ruined working life for everyone

man who knew that sound engineers were such right wing fuckwits

Can anyone take an image from the TV next time the "70%" of ministers are trade unionists" advert comes on? I think it would make for a great Labor version of 'Guess Who'.

Unions?

Goodness, I thought they were there to protect the worker.

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Husband says, the only people who are anti-union are people who earn too much money...with the communist manifesto in one hand...bong in the other.

I'm really not sure whats wrong with unions. Can someone explain?

-- Kate, non masonic, Thursday, 18 October 2007 10:52 (9 minutes ago) Link

Too much union means enforced strikes and picket lines and something else I can't remember. Too little union means WorkChoices and other cockfarming pursuits.

70% union members? Sounds pretty fucking good to me. Sic 'em on the ACCI, the fuckholes.

It's always the heads of massive companies saying how good WorkChoices is for workers, like they'd know.

Because god knows that a government run by people who have links to trade unions are just going to screw people over. Unlike a government hand in glove with big business who make people's lives wonderful and joyous.

Fucking zakly.

This week I've noticed a lot of people under 40 ask what the union thing is all about. Chances are they'll discover that the unions are ultimately there to protect workers, and that their weakening has coincided with the rise of WorkChoices. If this happens, the Coalition's union scare campaign will work against it in a huge, huge way.

ACNielsen polls released tomorrow. First to be taken in the campaign, so probably taking into account the very early reaction to Costello's tax cuts (i.e. before economists pointed out how dumb the tax cuts are).

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1243/531437213_769ee8dd68.jpg

Howard gaining slightly in polls. Polls taken between Monday and Wednesday. Early shock of tax cuts, probably.

That's much better than any Green LOLpollies.

People are stupid, AA. Plz to remember that? And taxes are obscene right now - well, obscene for a conservative government at any rate.