Just a Gen X girl in the world
Thursday February 9th 2012

Hurry up, make your bloody minds up–we need a government

You know I’ve gone from caring which party is in government to just wishing there was a government. This debacle has gone on long enough. I really think we should go back to the polls.

Honestly we’ve got three men flirting with the two major parties like Catholic school girls at the local boys’ school dance. They’re not really sure what they want or where they’re going with whatever it is they think they want, they’re just really lapping up all the attention. No one should be able to wield this much power.

At least Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor are displaying a modicum of decorum. Bob Katter thinks he’s ring master of this three ring circus using bananas and sugar as his cracking whip.

The ALP have pulled out the big guns with Katter.  They’ve even had Mrs Kevin Rudd doing her bit for the good of the party.  How magnanimous of her.  Considering what they did to Kevin.  But Bob’s happy that Kev’s sent the little Mrs round to see him.  Makes him feel important and all.

Tony Windsor is very keen on the broadband scheme.  That’s an old person thing though.  If you talk about bandwidths and download speed and things like that then old people, keen to think they have their finger on the pulse, immediately assume it’s as important as the second coming.  Well fast broadband would be just a good as the second coming I guess.  That’s if it doesn’t get stuffed up.  And it probably will.  Ignore that–I’m just being negative.

Tony Abbott’s a bit cold on Oakeshott’s parliamentary reform idea.  Can’t see why he would think that a minority government would have trouble operating under a hostile speaker.  Oops there I go again–all negative.

I wonder if we’ll vote differently this time round if we were presented with exactly the same scenario in say one month’s time with the same candidate, the same ads, the same policies. We’ll be wiser, that’s for sure. We’ll know that a vote for the Greens is a vote for the ALP. We’ll look harder at the Coalition’s stance on the economy. We’ll know that our vote means something, and shouldn’t be frivolously thrown away in a pointless protest over I’m not really sure what? Was it lack of policy? All it gave us was lack of government.

Some fools are driving around with bumper stickers saying don’t blame me I voted informal. I do blame you–you’re the reason we’re in this mess. I hope you feel as silly as those people who drive around with the Kevin 07 stickers. Image

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