Watching the writhing pain of Catallaxy over the Coalition's umming and ahhing over how to amend s18C of the Race Discrimination Act so as to placate Andrew Bolt, the IPA and ethnic voters, as well as the knowledge that about the only budget measure that seems guaranteed to pass Parliament is a tax increase that will affect free speech warrior-in-chief (and all round tax hater) Sinclair Davidson (and Andrew Bolt and Tim Wilson), almost (but not quite) makes seeing a Coalition win worthwhile.
In truth, with the benefit of hindsight, as I have written somewhere on the net (if not here), the Coalition win was probably for the good of the country, but only because it rid Labor of their disastrous experiment with Kevin Rudd.
If we could only have a double dissolution within 6 to 9 months, and a competition between a Turnbull led Coalition and a re-invigorated Labor (and held after Palmer's party has suffered its inevitable implosion), things could be looking pretty sweet. (I somehow doubt it is going to work out that well, especially given a Labor win would probably be at the cost of a moderate bit of GST reform which seems to be warranted.)
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I completely disagree.
voters put them in and thus they should serve out their 3 years and then make a judgement
Homer, the problem is no one has any idea where Palmer will end up on a whole host of matters, apart from his self interest in abolishing the mining and carbon taxes. A whole 2 1/2 years of him could end up with a shambolic collection of outcomes. (On the other hand, it might, if we are very very lucky, mean a moderated bunch of Liberal policies that are better than what the Coalition wants.) But really, I would rather not go through the experience.
By the way, I have a couple of Labor hating people in my office who were telling me this morning how utterly hopeless they consider Abbott to be. Those poll results from Essential I posted about yesterday are certainly no aberration.
Homer is correct, this is only the beginning of the pain for the right. They will have to endure three more years of seeing their hero sink into the quagmire of centrism, they don't get off that easy. Far left calls for a DD are just silly.
I'm not really calling for a DD; I am just saying that if one happened to come by it may all work out reasonably well if the stars aligned correctly.
This is like the three stooges having a talk on politics.
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