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Time to say Goodbye
Thank You Mr. Howard. I think it’s time to go - video by PF Journey
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I agree PF
It was a great ALP speech and the best part was that the tossers finally owned Keating and Hawke and Whitlam instead of trying hard to pretend they don't exist.
We might actually have a country worth living in again. The right wingers are scowling and mewling though, because they have so underestimated Rudd that it is laughable.
Put On Your Dancing Shoes
Adios Muchacho
Your dancing shoes on already, PF?
PF Journey's tap dancing with Kevin.
An urgent and timely matter (also very serious)
Fiona and Malcolm: Someone has thoughfully provided me with a two-sided (the less charitable would say two-faced) Liberal Party propaganda leaflet with a picture of Howard and his rival on one side under the heading LIBERALS' STRONG ECONOMIC TEAM (it's in caps in the original, so I reproduce it faithfully here) and on the other photos of Rudd and Swan with L-plates attached under the heading LABOR'S TOO INEXPERIENCED. THEY'RE STILL LEARNING. (It's in italicised caps in the original, so again reproduced faithfully.)
Note the subliminal inference of the italics, which lean to the right like the Tower of Pisa, portending total collapse and disaster, in contrast with the Gothic stability of LIBERALS' STRONG ECONOMIC TEAM. I must confess I fell for it completely. It made me think of Durham Cathedral (dating from 1093 AD), and suggested to my mind the 1,000 year Reich that I guess Howard inclines to.
Analogous to the circular Howard departure promise identified by Robert Manne as quoted at 2:03 pm today in Fiona's post, we have in LABOR'S TOO INEXPERIENCED. THEY'RE STILL LEARNING an argument for never changing the government. I am sure that needs no further explanation, except to say that if the electorate bought it in sufficient numbers, the only way for the ALP to provide the voters with an experienced team would be to import them. The current UK Cabinet could be transplanted here holus bolus, but the costs would probably be prohibitive, though we might get a package deal that included the Queen, or at least HRH The Princess Anne to replace Whathisname of Yarralumla. Failing that, I'm sure that a deal could be negotiated with Helen Clark and her NZ lot on much better terms. As a last desperate resort, don't rule out Robert Mugabe...
As persons with known legal inclination, perhaps you would both agree that the serious threat posed by inexperience of candidates would definitely warrant a referendum early in the life of the next Howard regime to amend the Constitution, to the effect that the only people who may hold Cabinet office are those with established experience in Cabinet.
I am obliged to the Liberal Party for drawing this serious matter to my attention, and have felt duty bound to pass its message/s on to others without delay.
Never forget, Ian
Robert Bosler
PF includes Robert Bosler's portrait of Howard for the 2004 election.
Painting
Turgivisation
Why would anyone believe anything - and I mean anything - the Runt says about anything? If he said it were raining I'd go and check. He is a politician in the tradition of Disraeli. As I have said before, read Conningsby. It was Disraeli who put the con in Conningsby.
Why, then, believe what he says about retiring? What if the Party asked him to stay on and he thought it in the interests of the Party to do so?
I am convinced that he wants to go down in history as Australia's longest serving PM. To do that, he has to beat Menzies.
Believe me, if he pulls this one off, he's going to make Keating look like Cocky Caldwell and they'll never want to get rid of him.
Add to that the need to remain in Kirribilli House so that Angus can have somewhere nearby to visit Granny Jeanette after school at Shore and he has every incentive to stay.
Suspension
Dr Duncan, I haven't believed anything JWH has said since March 1996, and I was stupid to do so then.
What if the party told him to go and he told them to get stuffed? Robert Manne in the current issue of The Monthly (available online if only I could remember my password) wrote:
As for wanting to surpass Menzies, I'm sure he wants more than another twelve years. My betting is on his wanting to go the double whammy and beating Menzies' record as PM and Billy Hughes record as longest-serving MP - 51 years and 7 months - but with Howard retaining the Rt Hon, all the while, of course. What makes the possibility even more delicious is Ross McMullin's words in the Age this morning:
Let's see, now, elected July 1974 ... Good heavens, only another 18 years and 3 months. That should see Angus through Shore...
The horror of the future
Another, better, way?
I know, Hyacinth, let's start a dynasty.
After all, the Howards (of Norfolk) - distant connexions, perchance? - were longtime movers and shakers in and of the Monarchy.
What better way of stopping all those demned republicans in their tracks by giving Australia its very own, home-grown, Royal Family?
Eat your heart out, TOM.