I'm, yet again, appalled, but not surprised.

The Federal Minister for Cerebral Aneurysms, Julie Bishop, has declared that it is unacceptable to ask people even to think about an area in which controversial (and widely unpopular) legislation has been imposed, even if that legislation is not actually mentioned. If the Government has passed a set of Industrial Relations ‘reforms’, then it is ipso facto Union propaganda to even consider the effect of legislation on employee conditions.

Yes, you heard it from the mouth of one of the most humourless androids in Howard's cabinet (and that's an achievement), that it is not acceptable to think about what the government has done. Because Thinking leads to Questioning. And Questioning leads to Disagreement. And Disagreement with the Government is Sedition. And Sedition is Terrorism. A law says so, it must be true.

But we shouldn't be thinking about what social damage has been done by Howard and his gang of thugs. Not just because thinking is not acceptable, but because money is the only meaningful measure. If you can't sell it, it's beneath notice.

A scene from an election campaign.

So Costello turned around to the waiting media, and castigated Rudd:

“Really, I mean, Rudd has just gone and copied every idea we've ever had, and we thought most of those up while we were on that week long bender in Manuka that time, they're stupid ideas which had no hope of ever working, and that Rudd has copied them off us shows just how stupid the little swot really is.”

Reports say that Costello was later savagely beaten by an enraged Howard for breaking the rule that what happens in Manuka stays in Manuka.




Moreover,

“Union bosses would not let Mr Rudd as prime minister make those promised cuts to the tax rates for high-income earners, Mr Costello said.”

Because those evil Union Bosses are all fat rich bastards, who despise all businesses and workers, and eat babies, and rape puppies.

Don't vote Labor, please think of the puppies!! What have the unions ever done for us anyway?




Oy. Is the election over yet?