To: Frank Malcolm

 KR> yes didn't she come across well on "38 minutes" (:

 BL> I don't watch it. Ballykissangel is much more informative and
 BL> has better journalists.

 FM> Yeah, unfortunately it just died. But at least Henry Crabbe is
 FM> back as the replacement. Carna Pies! (in the sky)

  I didn't watch it. Bloody ABC! Ballykissangel just stopped, and when
I found they had changed it I threw the TV set out the window in
disgust. Well... that's what I wanted to do, anyway. 

 BL> I am constantly amazed at how quickly politicians lose the
 BL> plot. Johnnie had the perfect opportunity for a double
 BL> dissolution last November. He had a 40-seat majority, 80%
 BL> public appproval after the gun-nut episode, and three triggers
 BL> (Telstra, Industrial relations and I foget the other one). I
 BL> was telling everyone what a genius he was!

 FM> That bloke at Longreach got it right. Totally polite, thank you
 FM> for coming Prime Minister etc, etc. But we elected you as the
 FM> boss, and bosses make *decisions*. And then he sat down.

  Yes... and I liked the bushie who stood up told him to his face that
he had driven there to tell him he just didn't believe him. I despair
of Oz politics... and now Kim Beazley has started bursting into tears!
Are they all neurotic? I think I preferred psychotic Paul Keating. Or
Hitler.

 FM> As someone commented to me tonight, little Johnny could hardly
 FM> talk from the saliva bubbles sticking his lips together.

  It's sad. I watched him take Keating apart in Parliament by laughing
at him, I saw him showing real leadership in the gun-nut episode, and
I thought for a moment we had a genuine leader, at last!

  Now, after a year: balance of payments is worse, unemployment is
worse, debt is the same, dollar is down 10%, the business of running the
country is more fucked than ever... and he is talking GST. Jeesus!
Aand apologising to fucking Abos! For what? For what was universally
accepted as a good, moral thing to do at the time it was done, 40
years ago!

  The next election is going to be very interesting. I think the
electorate is disillusioned with Johnnie Arsehole, it is still too
close to Keating to turn back to Labor, and Democrats belong to
another era (the 70s). I put Pauline in with a real chance.

Regards,
Bob
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