Right Pulse

Interesting how Paul Kelly had Kevin Rudd launch his new book about John Howard. Rudd spewed out a few silly statements:

In contrast, the Mr Rudd said the Coalition was “indolent, perhaps not always opposing the great transformation reforms engineered by Labor during its 13 years in office but barely adding to that reform agenda during their 12 years in office”.

The Coalition never opposed the ALP’s market liberalisation policies because they had gotten the ball rolling with the corporatisation of the Post Master General. Speaking of ‘indolent’, would spending $6 billion on Chinese ceiling insulation qualify as indolent, or $14 billion on duplicating school halls and libraries across the country, or $43 billion on an internet network that will duplicate a system Telstra is already rolling out, or a tax regime that is based on carbon emissions – you know the stuff you involuntarily breath out?

UPDATE

I don’t think Rudd is lying, I just think he is an extremely unintelligent and poorly read individual:

Mr Turnbull said Mr Rudd’s effort was “the most graceless and ungracious political speech he had ever heard”.

He described it as “worthy of a general secretary of the Communist Party at a Communist Party conference“.

It was “genuinely breathtaking in the audacity of its dishonesty”.

Mr Turnbull accused the Prime Minister of moving beyond spin into “completely different territory” where the Government is using a political technique of “absolute falsehood”.

Combined with Rudd’s essays on the ‘evils’ of capitalism and his speech on the history wars, it is fairly apparent that he has a poor grasp on economic history and contemporary political issues. A product of the public education system. I don’t think it is too far of a stretch to say that Rudd is probably the most unintelligent PM we have had in living memory.