Mangled Thoughts

And there was nothing to object while watching it.

No-one in the Liberal Party spotted what was wrong with Julie Bishop’s excruciating attack on the Rudd Cabinet over economics, before she delivered it Monday. Not Bishop, Not Turnbull, not any MP, not any of their advisers. Neither did anyone spot something else wrong, the plagiarism of the WSJ article.

Worse, no-one in the Liberal Party spotted the plagiarism until yesterday, in Parliament. The ALP directed them to the difficulty, because someone in the ALP (and it wouldn’t have been any MP because ALP MsP are as thick as solid concrete too) spotted it and kindly corrected Bishop and the Libs, from the floor of the Lower House, during Question Time.

BOWEN:

“The Treasurer has informed the House of some fundamental
errors by the shadow Treasurer, and it is with a heavy heart that I have to report yet another error by the shadow Treasurer. In her now infamous speech on Monday, she said this at the dispatch box:

“It is symptomatic of a government that is unsure of where to go or how far to go. This is a government that says it wants to promote Australia as a financial services hub and then reduces withholding tax for foreigners.’

“I even checked the Hansard this morning and it is still
there. Sometimes mistakes can tragically disappear from the Hansard but this one is still there. She came in in full flight, the Wall Street Journal in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other, and off she went to launch an attack on our withholding tax policy.”

Wayne Swann replying to a question from Bishop:

“Well, I do know that you need a distraction because there has been a lot of action happening today. I would just like to quote from the Australian online today:

“… the offending paragraphs of background were provided for her speech from the leader’s office.’

“Is that true? Who provided it? It says provided ‘from
the leader’s office’. It continues:

“Ms Bishop was understood to be “ropeable” about the error
but willing to take the public flak rather than blame others.’

The blame game is everywhere on that side of the House today. She has been caught out. She has got no excuse for it.”

Union thug and dunderhead Simon Crean:

“…the new shadow Treasurer, and she is the one in this place who wants to be judged on her economic credentials… But on Monday—I think her first intervention
since her appointment to the job…”

Albanese:

“You can understand why they are worried… so defensive… this is now the sixth gaffe in some three days—two a day is the average of the member for Curtin. When it comes to plagiarism, when the member for Curtin became the shadow Treasurer she did not ask for extra staff—she asked for an extra photocopier in her office!

“…the shadow Treasurer was caught out- plagiarising, and then caught out doctoring Hansard….”

Swann again:

“So all of this is an elaborate camouflage to hide the embarrassment of the member for Curtin. As usual, it is the cover-up that really pings them.”

“Asked why he had just sacked one of his ministers, Clement Attlee, Britain’s first postwar prime minister, replied: “Not up to the job.”

The anecdote introduces a Wall Street Journal article, Britain’s Brown Bust, applied to Gordon Brown. Bishop was never up to the job of Shadow Treasurer, and this was before her own “WSJ” speech. This is revealing about Malcolm Turnbull and many a Liberal MsP. After all, her time as Ministeress for dumbing down Education should have warned off even the thickest Deah Leadah from appointing her to anything more difficult than flobbering around on the backbench.

On the ban on short selling, while Turnbull is a complete economic illiterate, he as he boasts made his way as a lawyer into merchant banking. While it might seem pedantic, but merchant banks also engage in financial market operations. It might be assumed, therefore, Turnbull would be at least familiar, have some sort of inkling as to why short selling and long selling are important. It, therefore, might be assumed he would have an inkling why bans and control of these actions causes extensive damage. It is painfully clear he cannot even muster this.

Turnbull, as Minister for the Green Cult of Death Environment under Howard, declared the Government must forcer prices up of energy, water, and other commodities. His rationale was, because “as everyone knows, it delivers greater efficiency in their use”. This ignoramus wants to be Prime Minister! One thing is cleared up, the Fuhrer principle is alive and jumping in the Liberal Party and to check, new Liberal Senator in his maiden speech gave the game away -”us leaders”.

NB.
It is low and falling prices that show greater efficiency. Of course, this very wealthy pooh bah, Turnbull, is insulated from what he would care to inflict on Australians - just as, say the Rudds are.

Another NB, Rudd’s wife is no entrepreneur. The sheer amount of transfers into her firm, and other firms by each ‘tier’ of government, bound up with hiring and firing regulations and novelties concerning public service hiring and promotions is why. At least both the Turnbulls and the Rudds have three things in common, the desire to raze Australians, play the dictator, and are insulated (to a point) from the force of their psychopathic aims.