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The “we’re not getting cocky, but let’s just say we reckon we’re going to piss it in” edition.
“With the Howard-Costello team, we’re just about invincible.” Senator Ron Boswell.
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And here was me thinking it’s a war, with all of wars’ related tragedies, the reason most sane people call it an option of last resort. But no, the war in the Middle East is no such thing according to the President:
This moment of conflict in the Middle East is painful and tragic. Yet […]

John Howard makes a good decision about his leadership:
Prime Minister John Howard has reportedly decided to fight the next election, ending months of speculation about his future.
The Nine Network is reporting that Mr Howard has written to senior colleagues, saying he will remain leader.
Nine’s political editor Laurie Oakes said Mr Howard spoke to Treasurer Peter […]

The myth was always that he wrote it in single burst of creativity, handed it to his publishers, who did nothing much more to it than put covers around it and sell it. Two minutes thought (not to mention, a read of the book) would have revealed this as, well, a myth, but as […]

If members of Mr Howard’s own party think the new IR legislation sucks, why should the rest of us have to put up with it?:
(Victorian) State Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu is distancing the Victorian Liberal Party from hardline elements of the Howard Government’s industrial relations revolution.
In the lead-up to the November state election, Mr Baillieu […]

Interesting comment from David Frum, uber neo-con and a key cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq (and who pushed ahead of me at a deli in D.C. once, hmmmph). Frum has now joined the long list of touts-turned-critics and he writes about the intractable problems in Iraq caused by the action he once championed […]

This is the “when people go and take what I was implying seriously forcing me to try and weasel out of it by insisting on a narrow literal reading of my words so I avoid looking dishonest” edition.

But what I said in the last election campaign was that interest rates would always be lower under […]

Trevor Cook is, to quote Shakespeare, mad as hell and he isn’t going to take it anymore:
Astroturfing is evil. Astroturfing is always unethical and usually illegal. It corrodes democracy which relies on transparency. It is usually undertaken by people who are afraid, or lack the skills, to engage in open and honest public debates.
Sometimes it […]

With interest rates tipped to go up next week, I think BP sums up the situation well:
In my view the Reserve Bank has a hard call. We must be getting close to the tipping point where the next interest rate rise (or the one after) will significantly impact on aggregate demand. Too much foot on […]