Well tink you ar also unfair tonite there …on Michael Kroger

These Uni mates and ‘Nichols’ supporters followed diferent paths Costell for “glory” and Kroger for money

Now Costello thought he had attained ‘glory’ as 12 years revered Treasurer but now finds there is no glory in being deemed too naive initialy in ‘beleiving’ howard and then having no licker when he realized he’d been had….and he sees th evidence of his ‘glory ‘in th book sales stats

Kroger ha done very well for himself , no glory …but monies and within Liberal Party respect I tink Kroger came out well , and certainly in front of his mate Costello and get Kroger away from partisan politcs and he’s an able man

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p/s “Swan is an economist. A real one ”
thats no recommendation being a ‘but , if what , when , maybe’ person after th event Question is whether a pollie is able to listen & understand differing econamic advice and then has capacity to develop overall frameworks for planned outcomes both politcaly , socialy and econamicaly given trends

Thanks to Coconut

Well they hadn’t applied. Not like his mate Tip who was obviously inundated with all these offers LOL.

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“For those who reckon Grattan is one of the few “decent journalists”, read this and weep. After she spends half her article talking up the twin monsters of recession and deficit, she writes this:

The reason the Government doesn’t want to speculate about a recession is obvious. To do so increases fear, which plays into business decisions. As Stevens said, “given the underlying strengths of the economy, about the biggest mistake we could make would be to talk ourselves into unnecessary economic weakness”.

Do tell, La Stupenda? I suppose it’s OK for journalists to continually write it up though?”

I tink you ar being unfair to Michelle grattan on this article I’ve always thought she is th most talented and objective politcal journao by a long way and what she says there is accurate and econamicaly sound ….recognising why Swan avoids th words however its fair game for journos to speculate thats there job Unfortunately some ar too partisan and contribute to th very thing Swan is trying to avoid It would be irespoinsible for Swan to do otherwise , which Michelle Gratttan sensibly acknowledges

I may add BB that if she gives a ‘hit’ on th Govt you may find often its justified

It was actually quite sad watching Kroger. An old Liberal Party stooge debating their cause as if his life depended on it.

I can see exactly why he and Costello formed a faction; Costello was too gutless to become P.M., Kroger was too gutless to become an M.P.

They have so much in common!