Thursday, October 13, 2005
Sober, Political Analysis
After the last federal election in Australia, the government gained control of both houses of parliament. This hasn’t happened for a long time, and they’re making good use of it. At the moment some controversial industrial relations legislation is coming through which means lots of SCARY SCARY TV Ads (c/- the unions) and lots of soothing, calming, driiiiink the Kool-Aid type ads (c/- the government).
Which leads me onto toady’s point. As a result of the control-of-both-houses thing, a lot of people have accused the government, and John Howard in particular, of being “drunk with power”. They always say it like it’s a bad thing. I for one would love to see John Howard drunk, he’d probably be almost as entertaining as (former leader of the opposition) Mark Latham. And that’s another thing … post-Latham diaries, everyone’s saying “well, thank God he didn’t get to be Prime Minister”. I say, it’s a damn shame he didn’t get to be Prime Minister! Where’s your sense of adventure? It would be like being adopted by Oliver Reed.
Which leads me onto toady’s point. As a result of the control-of-both-houses thing, a lot of people have accused the government, and John Howard in particular, of being “drunk with power”. They always say it like it’s a bad thing. I for one would love to see John Howard drunk, he’d probably be almost as entertaining as (former leader of the opposition) Mark Latham. And that’s another thing … post-Latham diaries, everyone’s saying “well, thank God he didn’t get to be Prime Minister”. I say, it’s a damn shame he didn’t get to be Prime Minister! Where’s your sense of adventure? It would be like being adopted by Oliver Reed.
