Tony Abbott on the Alan Jones Show, again.
It does appear that Jones is doing everything he can to get Abbott across the line. He probably realised how imbalanced the media coverage of the Coalition had been since Rudd’s election. It is also as if over the last 3 months people have started to wake up to the inept fraud that is the Rudd government. Of course I always considered Rudd to be two faced, though the electorate are a little more forgiving. So be it. The ETS and Abbott’s unexpected rise to the leadership - providence fulfilled, destiny, etc… – has reinvigorated Jones and the conservative media, what little there is.
Abbott is a much better communicator than either Rudd or Gillard, and so he makes for a good radio interview. Turnbull is a good communicator as well, he just communicates the wrong message. The hard reality is that Abbott is a far more likable individual than either Rudd or Gillard because he has life experience and is therefore easier to relate too – something clearly lacking in the government make-up of union hacks, public sector slugs and megalomaniac green gestapo private sector rejects. Does Senator Penny Wong come to mind?
I also find it a bit rich for the government to start attacking Barnaby Joyce just because he raised concerns over the level of Federal debt and how we intend to repay it. With tax increases and/or cuts to Federal services? The government should come back with an answer instead of ganging up with their media thugs to bully Barnaby. To laugh off the prospect of our capacity to repay Rudd’s debt misses the point. Lehman Brothers, AIG, entire US and UK banking industry, sub-prime securities, GM, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, eastern Europe, etc… all had great credit ratings until confidence fled. And now we have had continual speculation and warnings by the ratings agencies that they may need in the future to cut the credit rating of the US Federal government and the UK government because of excessive debt levels. Now you may say that our debt levels are far lower than those economies, however we didn’t obtain a AAA rating until we had zero net debt. So clearly our threshold is far smaller than the US in the eyes of investors. So instead of the media attacking Barnaby Joyce, the media might want to start attacking the people that are actually running the show: Rudd, Gillard, Swan and Tanner.