To attack the Rudd government, some members of that odd group, the Right Wing League of Gentlemen Pundits , employed by variations of the Psychoville Sycophant , have actually been saying nice things about Goff Whitlam when he was the prime minister. Whitlam, they say, had the courage of his convictions to call a double dissolution . In the past, Little Darwin pointed out that it had almost become fashionable for the right, especially its scribblers, to scoff at the Whitlam years and some members of the ALP tried to forget the great leader who led them out of the political wilderness.
Rudd , in dropping the ETS for the time being , is said to lack guts like Gough to stage a showdown and crash through or crash . Rudd, clearly, is not a Whitlam kind of action man. He’s more the academic- delivering the never ending thesis , enumerating point after point, big on ibids and footnotes, with an occasional squirt of rich red Fountain brand tomato sauce to show he is a regular guy. Several times, Rudd was in a position to call an election and annihilate the Coalition, but he did not. The widespread community dismay at deferring action against the greatest moral dilemma facing mankind and the mishandling of other issues has coagulated badly, damaged the government and , backed by the rivers of gold from the mining companies, will see the opposing side ranting even more stridently against anything and everything.
GROAN DEPARTMENT : Asked to name the last Australian prime minister to be knighted, a contestant in Who Wants to be a Millionaire recently stated it was Gough Whitlam. It was that drone Billy "Big Ears" McMahon.
GROAN DEPARTMENT : Asked to name the last Australian prime minister to be knighted, a contestant in Who Wants to be a Millionaire recently stated it was Gough Whitlam. It was that drone Billy "Big Ears" McMahon.
