11 Comments

• Charlotte Gore 24th Nov '07 - 1:24pm

  Well that’s two of the Trinity Of B*stards to fall. Just Bush to go now…

• Joe Taylor 24th Nov '07 - 2:37pm

  Exactly what I was thinking Charlotte. Bush allies have been falling like flies in the last few years – Howard and Aznar were defeated in elections; Blair and Kwaśniewski have both resigned (and left both their parties saddled with the embarrassing legacy of the Iraq war).

  I think Anders Fogh Rasmussen may be the only Iraq-era ally Bush has left on the international scene!

  It’s not much better for him at home – Rumsfeld, Rove, John Ashcroft and Andy Card have all gone. Scott McLellan is firing broadsides at the administration he left only last year. His Republican friends in Congress were unceremoniously dumped out by the voters last year.

  Yes, he really is the last of the nasty, illiberal, war-mongering, fear-mongering neo-con b*stards. The only thing left is for him to see either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama get sworn in by his pal John Roberts. I’m sure you’ll excuse me a little gloat when that happens.

• Gavin Whenman 24th Nov '07 - 2:40pm

  1 year, 1 month and 26 days left (20th January 2009).

• Paul Walter 24th Nov '07 - 4:13pm

  Yes!

• Greg Stone 24th Nov '07 - 4:15pm

  “The axis of weasels”….

• Meirion Gwril 24th Nov '07 - 4:28pm

  However, a better shoiwng by the Democrats in Australia might have made us smile more?

• Peter Black 24th Nov '07 - 5:04pm

  One thing we will not be smiling at is this: http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/results/senate/qld.htm. Andrew Bartlett, a Democrat and a good liberal losing his Senate seat on the 24th count.

• Peter Black 24th Nov '07 - 5:06pm

  Oops! The link above will work of you delete the full stop.

• Peter Bancroft 24th Nov '07 - 5:56pm

  Peter’s right on this one, it’s a great shame that Andrew’s lost his seat – I was quite a fan of his.

  Personally I’m much more interesting in following liberal parties like the Democrats rather than illiberal types like Rudd.

  Whilst it’s nice to see Australia engaging on climate change, the enemy of our enemy is not our friend: We keep telling the US that, why don’t we bear that in mind ourselves?

  Rudd’s first announcements are that he’s going to lock up asylum seekers and keep turning back boats with immigrants from reaching Australia’s shores.

  I can’t find it in me to celebrate that kind of behaviour – I’m sad that others can.

• greg 25th Nov '07 - 8:06pm

  Why would Labour supporters be smiling? Not much to separate Howard and Labour policies for the last 10 years.

• Geoffrey Payne 25th Nov '07 - 8:16pm

  It is important that 2 pronciples have been established in Australia;
  1/ If you support the war in Iraq, you LOSE
  2/ If despite the overwhelming scientific evidence you try to deny that global warming is being contributed to by mankind, you LOSE.
  For the above 2 reasons, this is a first class result.
  However I do regret that the Democrats did not do better.