Right Pulse

Given the importance of the carbon issue and that Andrews lost the ballot, unless another challenge is won in the next two months, then those Liberals that are opposed to the ETS  should leave the party and join the National Party to ready themselves for the next election. Ideally, those opposed to the ETS will vote with the National Party to draw a public line in the sand on the philosophical direction of the Liberal Party. Three shadow Parliamentary secretaries have already resigned.

The Liberal Party now looks like a lukewarm progressive socialist party. Joe Hockey even described the Liberal Party as a ‘progressive’ party in the post ballot press conference (Tim Blair has picked up on this issue as well – shows how disingenuous MT in his quest to unify the party along socialist collective principles). The Liberals will go the way of the Democrats, offering no real alternative to the ALP.

UPDATE

More reason for Senators sceptical of the ETS to leave the Liberal Party and join the National Party:

MALCOLM Turnbull has begun heaping pressure on senior Liberal senators to back Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme or face the sack after crushing an attempted leadership challenge yesterday….At least 12 of the 32 Liberals sitting in the Senate appear to be preparing to cross the floor on the emissions trading bills when a Senate vote is finally held

So MT has gone completely off the reservation, as they say. The ETS has become a tool to turn the Liberal Party into a centre-left ‘progressive’ political action group – much like the now extinct Democrats. The Libs will into the future, essentially offer no alternative to the ALP – only shades of grey – by abandoning their classical liberal tradition.

We have now MT saying that:

….his party to move on from the divisions that led to an attempted leadership spill on Tuesday.

With everyone falling in line with MT’s socialist agenda, no doubt. Carbon taxation is not just some issue you move on from – like one big happy family. Reminds me of Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail when Launcelot starts killing guests at a wedding on the mistaken idea that a woman was being held hostage in the castle’s tower.

LAUNCELOT:  Hello.
  RANDOM:  He killed my auntie!
      [yelling]
  FATHER:  Please, please!  This is supposed to be a happy occasion!
      Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who.  We are here today to
      witness the union of two young people in the joyful bond of the holy
      wedlock.  Unfortunately, one of them, my son Herbert, has just fallen
      to his death.  But I think I’ve not lost a son, so much as… gained
      a daughter!  For, since the tragic death of her father–
  RANDOM:  He’s not quite dead!
  FATHER:  Since the near fatal wounding of her father–
  RANDOM:  He’s getting better!
  FATHER:  For, since her own father… who, when he seemed about to
      recover, suddenly felt the icy hand of death upon him,…
      [ugh]
  RANDOM:  Oh, he’s died!
  FATHER:  And I want his only daughter to look upon me… as her own
      dad — in a very real, and legally binding sense.
      [clapping]
      And I feel sure that the merger — uh, the union — between the
      Princess and the brave, but dangerous, Sir Launcelot of Camelot…
  LAUNCELOT:  What?

So what’s MT suggesting, let’s not worry about who sacked who…about who impoverished who…about who cut the power to who…about who taxed who into economic oblivion? The man is either delusional and/or he just doesn’t understand the issue.