When It Comes To Sleaze...

… nobody does it better than the Gillard Government!  Watch a few of the grubs begin their desperate climb out of the decomposing maggot-ridden carcase that is the Gillard Government because of its embracing of Dodgy Brother, Peter Slipper.  This is the price of political stupidity when you try to be too clever by half and you are absolutely desperate to cling to power.  Sleaze knows no boundaries when it comes to the Gillard Government but the Slipper scandal must be seen as the ultimate in political self-sliming and this ridiculous mob of Union hacks and cronies will never be able to shake off the rancid goo.  Peter Slipper has carried a foul odour for many years and the morons knew it.

Justice Steven Rares tossed out of court a sexual harassment claim made by Staffer, James Ashby against defrocked House of Reps. Speaker, Peter Slipper yesterday, stating Ashby’s claim was politically motivated.   This decision, in itself, sets a new low for Australia’s legal system.  Political favouritism has overtly entered our court system.  I'm not suggesting Justice Rares hung his political sympathies banner along the front of his Bench.  Heavens no!  We know our Judiciary is impartial!  More will be written on Rares’ rather interesting determination later, once legal circles stop blinking and after we know whether Ashby intends to appeal the decision.   There may have to be a whip-around to help raise the necessary funds to mount said appeal.

Gillard Government Grubs (henceforth known as ‘G' Men.  And women.  Can’t forget the Handbag Hit Squad!) are having a field day.  They think they have been delivered a seriously smoking Magnum by Justice Rares that will surely blow to smithereens the Coalition’s  AWU/HSU/Thomson arsenal and cause the electorate to reel back on their heels uttering “golly”!   They have been handed a water pistol and the Socialist morons are on the slippery side of stupid.  I am sure Abbott, once elected, will rip the scab off the festering sore which is the Australian unions via an enquiry into corruption and dirty dealings dating back quite some time. 

The Federal Australian Labor Party (the inane little band of Union-controlled kiddies running this nation.  Currently.) expect the Opposition to stoop to the level they set some time ago; a cesspit never before seen in Australian Politics.  People – for in my opinion, they are not a politician’s backside – 

such as MP Craig Emerson hyperventilates; "This is a conspiracy of enormous proportions, and Mr Abbott will hope that it simply blows away and then he can get on to his next smear campaign,"   Emerson would love to farm it into a ‘conspiracy of enormous proportions’ to take the heat of his ex girlfriend and the same ex girlfriend of the crook, Bruce Wilson, of the AWU/Wilson/Gillard/Slushgate scandal.  Emerson’s ex-bonk is, of course, Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.   The ‘jobs for the boys’ bell has never peeled so loudly – from ministerial appointments to those of the judiciary.  Gillard has performed well in the way she has handed out appointments to protect her posterior!

The Gillard Government knew the risk they were taking when they appointed  Peter Slipper to the respected position of Speaker.  It was a blatant political move to hang onto power.  

There is another backfire coming and it will not be hitting the Coalition.  All Coalition leader, Tony Abbott, has to do is keep feeding out the ropes.  Yes - there is more than one!
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Slipper 'conspiracy' likened to Australian Watergate

By chief political correspondent Simon Cullen

Updated 2 hours 38 minutes ago

 Labor has stepped up its attack on the Coalition amid the fallout from the failed sexual harassment case against Peter Slipper, describing it as a "conspiracy of enormous proportions".

The Federal Court yesterday dismissed the case brought against the former parliamentary speaker by one of his staff members, James Ashby, declaring it was an abuse of process designed to cause "significant public, reputational and political damage".

Justice Steven Rares believes the predominant purpose of the case was to further the political interests of the Liberal National Party (LNP) and former Howard government minister Mal Brough, who has been preselected as the Coalition's candidate in Mr Slipper's Sunshine Coast electorate of Fisher.

Government frontbenchers are demanding Opposition Leader Tony Abbott disendorse Mr Brough and make a detailed statement about what involvement the Coalition had in the court case.

"This is a conspiracy of enormous proportions, and Mr Abbott will hope that it simply blows away and then he can get on to his next smear campaign," Labor frontbencher Craig Emerson told AM.

"Mr Abbott will probably want to continue circling the earth and not land and answer these basic questions: What did he know about this? What does he mean by 'no specific knowledge'?"

Mr Abbott is on his way to the United Kingdom after making an unannounced visit to the troops in Afghanistan.

Read “their” ABC’s UPDATED take on the rest of this sorry saga here:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-13/labor-ramps-up-attack-on-slipper-conspiracy/4425520

Tweeting Is For Twits!

I don't "tweet".  I don't do Facebook.  I think both forms of this type of social media are fairly cretinous, designed for the imbeciles in our community who need their egos regularly massaged so they may validate their existence.  You just have to read the mindless rubbish the ABC's Q and A streams below the programme to realise there are idiots in charge of keyboards and mobile devices across the country and the viewer must suffer as a result.  I like the idea of sticking a black cardboard strip across the offending part of the television screen. But we should not have to take such drastic measures to protect our sanity.

And what does it say about our politician twits who insist on being party to the inane?  I would hope the good politicians would exercise a level of maturity.  The bad (inane) ones, of course, should go for it.  Make idiots of themselves.  That way, we know exactly who and what we are voting for.  So far, the ALP have outdone themselves when it comes to showing the country their mindlessness via their twittery.

If I was the leader of the federal Coalition, I would be taking a strong stand with regard to MPs and candidates holding these two types of social media accounts.  There is no excuse for stupidity.  Connecting with voters is important but not so important when there is the real potential to make a complete goose of yourself and your party.
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Liberals gag twits
Date
December 9, 2012

Jessica Wright
federal political correspondent for The Sunday Age and the Sun-Herald.

Slip-ups … politicians have criticised each other on Twitter, leading to the Liberals' alleged clampdown.
LIBERAL PARTY candidates have been gagged before next year's federal election, with Coalition backbench MPs under pressure to close their Twitter and other social media accounts.

In an opposition bid to limit ''stuff-ups and scandals'', Fairfax Media has learnt of a directive from the head office of the federal Liberal Party to preselected candidates that ''strongly advises'' against using Twitter, and tweeting on behalf of the Liberal Party is ''not encouraged''.

Several Liberal backbenchers have confirmed the strict measure, which was decided at the start of last month, with one MP saying the party was sending a clear message ''that depending on your seniority, use a great deal of caution when tweeting, and it is preferred that most MPs closed our social media accounts''.

''It is a way to limit the stuff-up and scandals obviously but it seems a little draconian to me,'' the MP said. ''I wouldn't go as far as to say this is a free speech issue but if I was pushed to close my account outright, then you would hear from me loud and clear. On Twitter and elsewhere.''

Another MP said the decision was ''outrageous'' and a ''result of a bunch of nervous nellies in the head office who think we aren't capable of running our own offices without falling over our own feet''.

Calls to the Liberal Party federal secretariat for comment were not returned.

A spokesman for the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, said this issue was a matter for the national executive branch.

It is understood preselected Liberal candidates in Western Sydney were the first to be told of the Twitter blackout and several have privately made their displeasure clear to local party branches.

Labor MP Steve Gibbons caused a stir in the last sitting week of Federal Parliament by calling Mr Abbott a ''gutless douchebag'' and the Deputy Opposition Leader, Julie Bishop, a ''narcissistic bimbo'' on Twitter.

The tweet caused immediate problems for Labor, given the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard's, aggressive campaign against what she has called the Opposition Leader's misogyny.

In May, Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer defended controversial comments she made on the social media site about foreign workers and an overseas-born Labor senator as ''clearly ironic''.

In September, Liberal council candidate Matthew Hammon was forced to resign from the party when he sent a series of racially provocative tweets criticising Muslims in the aftermath of the anti-Islam film riot in Sydney.

The federal move to limit the use of Twitter is not the first time the Liberal Party has imposed a gag on candidates.

Last year, Queensland Liberal National Party candidates were encouraged to use Facebook rather than Twitter to connect with voters and avoid slip-ups before the state election.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/liberals-gag-twits-20121208-2b284.html#ixzz2EVPGDFJ8