Crisis? What Crisis!?

With apologies to Supertramp.

KEVIN RUDD'S popularity has skyrocketed to record levels and support for federal
Labor has soared after the Government's handling of the global financial crisis,
the latest Herald/Nielsen poll finds.

The national poll, the first to
test the Government's recent reaction to the dramatic worsening of the crisis,
also finds overwhelming support for Mr Rudd's handling of the situation,
including his $10.4 billion rescue package.

Which is, one suspects, just why the Ruddster has charged about from commercial tv station to commercial radio station spruiking fear and panic over the WFC.

Setting the scene with language that clearly promotes the idea of catastrophe and impending doom the PM then intones that we should do the opposite of what that language indicates and not panic. Having spent a week or so in this mode, Rudd unveils his package of “spend till it hurts” (the taxpayer) not to parliament but to the media direct.

Used to be those national crises were dealt with within the purview of the parliament. You know oversight, debate, right of reply, etc. Open, transparent and accountability? Not on your nelly.

Extreme times coming to a TV near you...

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The public tit still feeds...

What a show. "Della" - an individual compromised and grubied by his own hands and overblown hubris - and Neal, a witch of a faction unto herself, deport themselves as only the NSW Labor right can. They summarise the slime and scum that define this fly-blown government that occupies the treasuty benches of Macquarie St.

Neal, of course, has carried her special brand of venomous and peurile politics to Canberra nowadays and is Kev's "special" problem. She is to undergo "anger management" counselling. Right. Will we begin with the removal of the fabled images of political enemies that she keeps in her freezer? Perhaps she will be allowed that extravagance.

This is a not particularly nice woman. This is a woman who grows a grudge as a farmer his crop.

Anger management? Give us all a break. She'll cop it because Kevvie said so but...and there's always a but...only to deal with "problem solving" in her daily government activity. Next time Kev dines in Sydney with his Labor collegues one hopes he brings his version of Alexander's "foot guard", the hypaspists, with him: he'll need 'em.

A flasback to Alan Ramsay's mention of this 'woman' in 2004:

Then there was Belinda Neal, wife of the NSW ALP general secretary at the time, John Della Bosca, now a Carr Government minister. Della Bosca, a factional
soul mate of Ludwig's, manipulated the appointment of his wife to a NSW Senate vacancy in March 1994 after Kerry Sibraa, then senate president, resigned to take up a Keating government diplomatic appointment in Zimbabwe.

Neal's political career lasted just 4 years. She was forced to resign on the eve of the 1998 election to accommodate the Senate ambitions (and future superannuation entitlement) of Steve Hutchins, Labor's NSW state president and her husband's best mate, and to try her luck at winning a seat in the House of Representatives. That was no luck at all. She has not risen from the political dead since. Still, the only vote she ever needed to get the Senate salary and perks of 4 years on the public tit was her husband's, so she has no cause for complaint.

The point of all this is that local political chieftans like Ludwig and Della Bosca are shameless when it comes to looking after their own parasites, be they cronies or nagging spouses.

And what a bloody nagging spouse we have here! Not only nagging but an abusive, foul-mouthed piece of anal detritus to boot. And her husband, having guaranteed her a NSW government pension, has foisted her upon the nation as a whore...er whole.

Thank you NSW Labor. At least she's not frigtening the bejesus out of the local school athletics day...yet.

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Early days

An ABC online news item refers to Nicola Roxon as the “Minister for the Ageing” in Our New Rudd Government.

In fact, according to a list published yesterday, Ms Roxon is the senior Minister for the Health and Ageing portfolio. The junior Minister for Ageing is Justine Elliot.

Oh well, it’s early days yet, so we might expect the media to eventually get these things right.

The news item goes on to report Retirement Village Association chief executive Kate Hamond’s call for the Rudd Government to appoint an “Ambassador for Ageing”.

That’s a nice warm’n’fuzzy idea, but one would hope and expect that a minister of the crown, whose specific responsibility is to the ageing, should be able to fulfill that function. Yet another government appointee will only blur the lines of accountability.

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