In this context, and that of his imminent defeat, it is just too perfect that Howard has as international cheerleaders, the Dog & Pony Tour Guide General David-where-did-I-put-those-200,000 machine guns?-Petraeus & The Moron in Chief. With a few distant grumbles from angry Mount Cheney, we have the ultimate tri-pronged-anchor of endorsements: A smart liar, a rich idiot & an undead psychopath.

Howard unfortunately will not lose power because of his war-mongering, his lying, amnesia or plausible deniability about refugees, kickbacks to Saddam or any of his government’s other spectacular ethical breaches. Howard will lose power because he repeatedly hit the hip-pocket nerve of the aspirational, swing-seat middle-class. He did this with his Industrial Relations legislation, his squandering of a GST generated surplus, his pandering to big business, his brutal commodification of tertiary education & his undermining of Medicare. When low unemployment & low average wages, combine with huge house prices, rising interest rates, humungous corporate profits & payouts – the aspirational middle class begins to smell something distictly rodentiary in the much-lauded, economic consruct laughingly referred to as a BOOM. Hoist upon his own petard, Howard the ultimate economic rationalist will lose, justly, poetically, because ultimately: “It IS the Economy, Stupid.”

Everyone is doing it tough except a select few such as the politicians, the beaurocrats and white collar workers, the CEO’s and those at the top of the food chain, but we are such a prosperous nation so we are told again and again by the government of the day ?

Why then does prosperity not flow through and trickle down to Mr & Mrs Average who contribute to that prosperity through blood, sweat and tears and who struggle to meet the committments of the modern day era we now live in.

Politicians are put there by the people for the people. History has shown and will show again that people power will remove those political parties which do not deliver a better country for tomorrows generation, our children and our grandchildren. We deserve at the very least honesty, integrety, sincerity, committment and inclusivity in the major decisions which impact and affect our lifestyle and that of future generations.

I am not pre-empting the death knell of the current political party in power but am simply saying this; ‘That no matter what your political persuasion if you allow outside influences rather than the peple you serve to impact policy and as a result show total contempt for the voice of the nation you serve then expect the unexpected’.

It matters not to me who holds the power of running this great country, what does matter is that it is run in the spirit of honest and ethical service to Australia and its population and not for the population of other countries and nations at the expense of our own.

Derek

The simple fact is Howard is a lying wanker. Anything else included in a biography of the man is largely wasted ink. Just need “lying wanker.”

Even Murdoch’s ‘The Australian’ recently shredded Howard’s 11 year reign, asking what he has really left Australians from such a massive influx of new wealth. Not much. The Australian also took Howard to task for ignoring infrastructure and basically blowing his wad on shit.

Just as they did before, the Labor Party will now have to come in and clean up the mess left by the conservatives.

BTW, most of the television news programs bookended the Petreaus and Bush interviews with accurate reports on the failure of the surge.

They’re not fooling anybody.

And almost everybody in Sydney is blaming Bush and Howard for the mini-police state we will endure from Monday morning, due to the APEC summit. A ten foot high ’steel wall’ is now being built through the centre of Sydney, to keep an angry public away from Bush, and to stifle democratic rights to protest and free speech.

http://www.theorstrahyun.blogspot.com

What you also completely ignore is the moral depravity of John Howard and most of his Government. Apart from his role as head cheerleader for the Coalition of the Willing, Howard has capitalised on fear and distorted the truth to win elections – from false claims that boat people threw their children overboard to ensure they would be rescued, to false claims that they would keep interest rates low. Now, Howard’s government is using the APEC meeting, George W Bush and, apparently, General Petraeus, to try to build enough perception that a Howard government is what we need to contend with Iraq and the threat of terrorism. Unfortunately for Honest John, after 11 years the same lies and stunts don’t seem to be working any more.

Its “Miss” … I’m all but certain its the mighty hermaphdodite. They both overuse parenthesis in thier sentence structure, and this is the first thread I’ve seen them both post in.. and go figure… they posted 3 minutes apart.. I figure that innane madlibesque rant took about 3 minutes to write, from the looks of it… Before “myhypocriticalbrainisravagedbysyphillus” hit almost every thread, now “its” not, but the the mighty hermaphrodite is…

Not that the Islamic world will think any better of Australia for that – something that didn’t register inside Howard’s only relatively less idiotic noggin – and something not unimportant when the world’s most populous Islamic country (Indonesia) is Australia’s near neighbour.

There is some good news. Howard is behind in the polls in his own electorate and an election must held this year. For a guy who is all politician and zero anything else, a loss there would be an an almost fitting reward for his services to this nation.

Notice how ignorant trolls apologize and defend losers like Dubya and Howard…there must be some reason.
Comment by kasinca — August 31, 2007 @ 1:55 pm

LMAO. You are calling someone else ignorant ? WTF do you know about Howard’s governance you idiot ?

Why have I been hearing about Clinton taking the economy from rags to riches with paid-off debt and balanced budgets for years now arsehole ? Was it because that was a good thing ? Because it showed the economic responsibility as opposed to the irresponsibility of the other party that ran up that record debt ?

Yeah well, the Australian equivalent of Clinton there was Howard. And because he chose to do the same thing Clinton did, raise taxes and pay off the huge public debt left to him, we’ve had one of the strongest economies in the world for the past decade.
You remember that recession a while back in the US ? Well we don’t. Get the point ?

From July this year my parents won’t pay tax on their retirement income ever again, like every other over 60 in the country. This has been achieved at the same time that securing funding for the massive, unfunded reserves for public service retirees has been secured. Something that will end up bankrupting economies around the world in the same situation.

We can do this because of the budget surpluses this government has delivered, as opposed to the record deficits delivered by the opposition.

You wanna pretend you could actually swim rather than sink if you did hear why someone does defend the Liberal party’s record then let’s go chump.

Turning a corner and last throes, so to speak. Why is Patreaus interfering in Australia’s elections?

Comment by Fools on the Hill — August 31, 2007 @ 1:59 pm

WTF are you talking about ?
A national Australian newspaper interviewed the man most directly responsible for implementing military policy in Iraq, where Australia has troops.

This could only occur if that General decided to screw with Australian elections 2 months out could it ?
No other reason for one of Australia’s major newspapers to interview such a figure ?

A better question would be, why hasn’t the Australian media been banned from Iraq, since this General isn’t the only one who will provide this same story.

Got any opinion on leaders from the Afghan campaign, in the same situation talking to the same newspaper in the exact same way during the same pre-election period ?
Got fkn anything at all going on in your tiny little brain there ?

Yeah let’s all wonder why Bush would be talking about Howard in the week before he travels to Australia. Or why a country with troops in Iraq might be sending reporters there. Really, the only possible answer is election influence, you idiots.

Faiz, Ask Howard Dean about polls four months out……I have a feeling Howard will be re-elected when Aussies consider their national security and wallets.
Comment by mighty aphrodite — August 31, 2007 @ 1:44 pm

Cause Americans really considered those two issues in 2006. Sorry MA you are as delusional as the wanta-be boy king you worship.
Comment by Krazny — August 31, 2007 @ 1:48 pm

He might be delusional, but you are an idiot.
Americans voted about something in Congressional elections in 2006 therefor Australian voters….. what ?
What fkn sense do you think you were making there nimrod ?

Howard is out.