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

Duelling Kevins. Feel the charisma.

Kevin Andrews so crappy on 7.30 Report last night. "Malcolm should embrace everyone in the party, whatever their view" over and over again. Difficult to see what this means practically apart from Malcolm folding and agreeing with the Minchin Crew.

So five lib frontbenchers have resigned, and I'm completely confused now. Which'll learn me for not bothering with political news. Its oer the emissions trading scheme - were the resginees aganist there being one at all, or did they want it more tough, or..? (Im assuming the former but god knows)

Basically the resignees/anti-Malcolm faction are a coalition of two only slightly different position - the hardliners who are all "no ETS no way no how", and then recalcitrants who want to wait until after Copenhagen before agreeing to an ETS (as if Copenhagen will make a difference one way or another). Either way they think agreeing to ETS now is a disaster.

At least some of it is a more generalised, inchoate protest vote against Malcolm Turnbull emphasising the Liberal Party's liberalism at the expense of its conservatism.

So what's happening now.

joe hockey going to push for leadership takeover tomorrow

You people have funny names down there.

Your names are funnier. You people have names like Preston Schifflebein, Faith Popcorn, and Rudi Dangler.

America is just wonderful that way! :-D

Yeah but we have Abbott and Costello! :D

Or er... we did, until this week.

wish i could find the offending paragraph on abbott & costello that got removed from bob ellis' book

about one changing political persuation after banging the other's then-girlfriend

ABBBOTTTTTT

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Oh FUCK NO. WAAHHT. Stupid little head-bigeared bastard!

http://i45.tinypic.com/23rtmw3.jpg

As one of my friends just posted elsewhere "liberals elect blow up doll as new leader"

He'll be at least as effective as William Hague wa...wait a minute.

Anyway our Abbott would do a much better job than yours so let's send her over so she can tell the Liberals to go away and usher in better times.

Huzzah! I'd vote that.

Holy shit. This is madness. Ah well, why worry, it's not as though I want the Liberals to get back in. Crazy-arse fascist numbnuts that they are.

From http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/01/2757994.htm

Then there's Tony Abbott - the great 'People Skills' himself, whose defiance of political orthodoxy is beginning to rival Mr Turnbull's own.

What other leadership candidate would have had the magnificence, on Sunday, to ignore not just one, and not even two, but three central tenets of the political picture opportunity?

"Don't wear silly hats" has been defied before.

"Don't wear budgie smugglers" has also been defied, though with tragic results for the former NSW Liberal leader Peter Debnam, whose photoshoot in the briefest of swimming costumes heralded his imminent failure at the polls in 2007.

"If you have an extremely hairy back, for God's sake keep your shirt on" is not so much an accepted political maxim as an article of common sense, but it is sage advice nonetheless.

And yet: There was People Skills on Sunday, prancing about in the shallows wearing naught but a scrap of lycra, a lifesaver's cap and a fascinatingly goatish pelt.

Countdown to media revival of abortion debate with new liberal leader Abbott, in 3...2...

Oh god no, aaargh.

I am enjoying the fun ride that is Barnaby Joyce: Shadow Finance Minister with policy ripped straight from the LaR0uche krew.

^ congrats on not c+p'ing T. Martin's tweet about Joyce

As if I'd steal T. Martin's work and use it on ILX.

Meanwhile, I am perplexed by my cousin's choice of Facebook groups. First she signs up to the group "No Kevin By 2011" and five minutes later she has become a fan of Bob Hawke. I...don't get it.

i met bob hawke in a bar last year

he was v orange

Are you sure it wasn't some drunk tanned bloke going "aaaaaarrrrrrrhhhhhhh"?

^remind me to show you my hawke impression

Can't be as good as my Hawke impression. It isn't next-level like my Howard impression, through.

what amateur hour horrors have you wrought with your reminiscing, jabba hands.

good thing i didn't mention the time i met the goatse guy tbh

Rudd out?

well this could be intersting

hmm

I so didn't believe this was going to happen.

I've completely missed all the hoo-haa tbh, work's been the worst busy ever in my life. Is this kind of ousting/coup really rare and unusual? Is this like what happened to whitlam? im shit at politics

no this is more like hawkey/keating

this is the third leadership spill we've had in the last year, pollies be forgetting how to be a party

i hope the sex party doesn't have a spill

Haw.

Well done, Ozmalia.

i kinda feel a little bad for the dude tho

Liberal candidate punched in face over asylum policy

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/18/2956861.htm

GAME ON

fuck wrong thread