Right Pulse

The US edition of the WSJ has written an editorial in full praise of Abbott:

Mr. Abbott has spared no time in setting out his views. Yesterday he called cap and trade “a great big tax to create a great big slush fund to provide politicized handouts, run by giant bureaucracy.” That is exactly what Mr. Rudd is proposing: to have business pay government for carbon credits, starting in 2011. Canberra would then redistribute the revenues to favored green industries and middle-class voters, with a bureaucracy to manage the whole thing.

Mr. Abbott asked his Liberal Party colleagues yesterday to vote on whether they would support cap and trade. They overwhelmingly oppose it. That’s a welcome switch for the party, which has been emboldened by Mr. Abbott’s conviction.

…but according to the ABC the Liberal Party is in ‘turmoil’, with a front page story on one of the two dissenting Liberal senators. big deal.