The pond is failing and flailing.
As a kindly reader pointed out, it's impossible to keep up.
Impending disasters keep lining up, like crows above a cornfield. Gaffes, mistakes, blunders, and insolent backbenchers, unrepresentative swill, are lining up to betray Abbott ...
And what a mess that would make, in this flip flop thongie thingie, on again after being off again, after being promised, bizarro boulevard of broken Bolter dreams ...
What does the bouffant one make of it all?
Well, truth to tell, the pond didn't think much of the original movie.
It's hard to feel much empathy for people who deliberately put themselves in harm's way ... and then come to grief.
You know, if you're going to put yourself between a rock and a hard place, sometimes the rock will win.
But on the other hand, there's a certain ghoulish charm involved in such shows.
Ritually cutting off an arm.
Perhaps even a decent disembowelling like Yukio Mishima.
The pond would pay to see that sort of movie, but what luck, right now it's going free to air every day of the week ...
As for the bouffant one, isn't it grand that the reptiles are suddenly realising that all that rhetoric about taking the tough decisions and a national budget crisis means that Tony Abbott and jolly Joe are at each other's throats as to what to do about it ...
Not so much man versus stone, as tough dumb rock v. dumb tough rock ...
And remember, every second counts ...
Let's face it...Like the "Mock Commodore" who has just steered the official club yatch onto that known sandbar while drunk with the Chivas Regal...the MSM. having TOTALLY screwed up with ANYTHING they said pre-2013 election about the "we need Tony" campaign...now are having to face a gimlet-eyed crew in the electorate and their only defence is ; "Hey!..it wasn't ME steering the boat...it was my wife!...I was just encouraging her"
ReplyDeletePhilip Ruddock to stand down as Chief Government Whip in wake of spill motion against Tony Abbott. Right party, wrong man.
ReplyDeleteAbbott said after the spill that there would be no recriminations. That was not his way.
DeleteOh dear. Another reversal.
Miss pp
The narrative of lunacy has ratcheted up speed in this first week of "good government". Perhaps our Chief Poltroon is just attempting to exhaust the parodicists?
DeleteSuch a cunning little chap he is.
It's worked Via Collins. The pond is exhausted and out of parody. How many jokes is it possible to make about Olympic events and pikes and backflips and flip flops and thongs, following Miss pp's observation of yet another reversal, before the parodying begins to feel as stale and wearying as Sir Duke himself?
DeleteAnd Labor win Queensland, and Brandis was 'shirtfronting' Triggs months ago.
ReplyDelete'OH MY GOD!!...Won't someone think of the children...er..guvmint!"
ReplyDeleteSeriously though..when a govt' gets removed, there are the usual recriminations against several ministers for not pulling their weight....BUT A WHOLE BLOODY FRONT BENCH????!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Gina Monologues continue, with action taken against 9 for their 2-part drama. Why don't they just release it online tomorrow and pre-empt any court censorship?
ReplyDeleteAnd don't the 'leftist' media just love that picture of her with bulging jowls, looking for all the world like Clive Palmer in drag?
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/13/gina-rinehart-court-action-house-of-hancock
Well it's not really fair to make fun of someone because of their looks. But isn't this the modus operandi of Murdoch? And in her and Palmer's case 'fat bastard' seems appropriate.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgfbafx137A
I prefer to think of her as Piers' long-lost half-sister.
DeleteCruel but fair, Anon, and the pond is tempted to call for the DNA
DeleteThe Guardian:
ReplyDelete‘Tony Abbott has removed the longest-serving Liberal MP and “father of the house” Philip Ruddock from his position as the chief whip and has also promoted the loyal backbench supporter Andrew Nikolic in what some MPs are describing as post-leadership spill recrimination…………...In the lead-up to the spill motion, Nikolic wrote a letter to all his colleagues urging unity. “I’m struggling to understand how that has happened in the proud team I thought I’d joined,” he wrote. He said “only weak parties lose their composure and unity of purpose when challenged” and “we are not that party”.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/13/tony-abbott-ditches-father-of-the-house-philip-ruddock-as-chief-whip
Nikolic, our man of La Mancia, always dreaming the impossible dream.
I thought they'd at least have demanded Ruddock issue some sort of cover story, like "I'm retiring from the Whip's position in order to spend more time in my crypt".
DeleteI suppose this means that he might actually retire from Parliament some time in the next few decades?
(Errr.... mind you, I can actually remember him first being elected in a 1973 by-election.....)
If only the pond had thought to do a crypt joke about the walking, talking sepulchre! Well played Anon
DeleteSharri Markson was most amusing on yesterday's The Drum. Could hardly wait to spew her venom against Triggs, reciting every learned talking point. Who is this twerp? If she is their chief weapon to get revenge for "their" attacks on Credlin, they are in deep doo-doo.
ReplyDeleteIt was a remarkable performance, and so error-laden and fact free that it amazed the pond that News Corp lets her out without a nanny. Perhaps Julie Andrews was busy, but thanks for placing it on the record Uncut Cash. If The Drum bothered with a transcript, the pond would have faithfully recorded it, but as the show only features journalists talking to other, frequently stupid journalists, it seemed like a profound waste of energy to transcribe Markson's bile. Better off swigging a glass of mercury ...
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