“Costello is conceited.”

In Parliament QT on Thursday, Costello happened to be there (for a change). [This was my 3rd trip to QT since Parliament returned at the end of August and only the first time I’ve seen him. I gather, therefore, that he is a no-show more often than not. I can’t remember who it was (think it was Tanner though); but someone referenced Costello in their reply to a question and the whole room, gallery and members, turned to look at him. He waved his hands back and forth for about 5 to 10 seconds as if he was bowing in his seat from the adulation ……… it was the most annoying thing to actually see it. Wouldn’t have been broadcast over the airwaves as they only show the person speaking for the most part.

LOL, come off it.

Rudd is a bastion of supreme arrogance.

Why is he doing it? Perhaps it’s because despite all the fanfare and excitement, boring old Wayne Swan out polled Malcolm Turnbull as preferred Treasurer and Rudd will easily out poll him as preferred PM. It’s Turnbull and the Coalition who need to boost their credibility, not Rudd, Swan or the ALP.

Galaxy 19 May 2008

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23719923-5001021,00.html

“Some 36 per cent of voters believe Mr Swan would be the better economic manager over Liberal shadow treasurer Malcolm Turnbull, who rated 25 per cent.
In the weekend before the Budget, the figures were essentially reversed in a Newspoll survey – 35 to Mr Turnbull and 29 per cent to Mr Swan.”

Newspoll 20 May 2008

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23726970-601,00.html

“During the budget period, Mr Swan has overtaken Mr Turnbull on the question of who would make the better Treasurer, to lead by 40 per cent over Mr Turnbull’s 26 per cent.
Before the election, Peter Costello had an advantage over Mr Swan of more than two-to-one.
The Coalition has also lost its mantle as preferred economic manager to the Labor Government, with 52 per cent saying the Coalition could not deliver a better budget, to 29 per cent who said it could.”

Once again, we see the Canberra Press gallery with little or no idea about what is going on outside the bubble in which they live, by proclaiming this week that the ALP is very nervous about Turnbull’s ascension to the throne. Just because they wish something to be a particular way, doesn’t mean it is, or ever will be.

In that same period the Aussie dollar has dropped 20c against the Greenback. That is why our petrol prices haven’t moved.

That would be the excuse, anyway.