And would Gerard mention that Q&A last night was ALL ABOUT BUSINESS PEOPLE in love with Tony or wanting him to bash workers on the head with a stick?...

Tony is an idiot who has no idea of the damage his policies will be doing — especially his policy on climate change which is a dog's spew.

Bills to repeal Labor’s clean energy package have been introduced to federal parliament amid protests from the public galleries and procedural skirmishes in the House of Representatives which delayed the process for more than an hour.

The prime minister, Tony Abbott, who introduced the long telegraphed repeal on Wednesday morning, declared the Australian people had spoken at the September election, and they wanted the carbon tax gone.

The repeal bill, Abbott said, was “our bill to reduce your bills”.

“We have said what we mean, and will do what we say. The carbon tax goes,” Abbott told the House of Representatives. “Repealing the carbon tax should be the first economic reform of this parliament.”

The government’s attempt to begin parliamentary debate on its signature election commitment was disrupted by procedural motions moved by the opposition.

The first business day of the 44th parliament began with a suspension of the standing orders, with Labor attempting to force debate on the “culture of secrecy” since the change of government.

Labor then objected that referring to its leader, Bill Shorten, as “Electricity Bill” during preliminary debate was unparliamentary. The new speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, demurred and ruled the term parliamentary. Labor then dissented from the ruling.

The manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, said the new government had promised to put the “adults” back in charge of politics, but was apparently resolved to embark on juvenile name calling.

Bishop warned Labor to desist from frivolous motions and said her inclination was to allow the business of the house to proceed. The government accused Labor of delaying tactics.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/13/abbott-begins-dismantling-carbon-tax

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I think Bill Shorten needs some help in finding a few choice words:

"Madam speaker, This fake government has no mandate to repeal the Carbon Pricing... The Mad Monk only has a mandate in being Mr Murdoch's puppy..."

BOOM!... 

Whatever persuaded Palin not to try for the Republican presidential candidacy this time, the recent publication of two deeply unflattering books about her – Geoffrey Dunn’s The Lies of Sarah Palin and Joe McGinniss’ The Rogue – must have helped make up her mind. Though different in approach and style, the books are strikingly alike in their gruesome assessments of the subject. The woman is a liar. Not just any old liar who bends the truth from time to time, or says things such as “Read my lips. No new taxes”; or like all political leaders and governments makes promises she cannot keep. Palin is an instinctive, incurable, possibly psychopathic liar. She would lie even if she were not an outrageously ambitious politician, an ignoramus, a super-narcissist and a fundamentalist Christian, but because she is all those entangled things she is compelled to lie much more than she would if she had settled on just being a hockey mom.

http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2011/november/1322718343/don-watson/comment-palin-politics-and-tea-party

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Gus' translation into Aussie politics:

Whatever persuaded Abbott to try for the PMship candidacy big time, despite the publication of two deeply unflattering essays about him – Marr’s Political Animal: The Making of Abbott and Gus Leonisky's’ Cartoons and the Persistence of the Loony Monk – must have helped make up his mind. Though different in approach and style, the thesis are strikingly alike in their gruesome assessments of the subject. The man is a liar. Not just any old liar who bends the truth from time to time, or says things such as “Read my lips. No to the carbon tax”; or like all political leaders and governments makes promises he cannot keep. Abbott is an instinctive, incurable, possibly psychopathic liar. He would lie even if he were not an outrageously ambitious politician, an ignoramus, a super-narcissist and a fundamentalist Christian, but because he is all those entangled things he is compelled to lie much more than he would if he had settled on just being a charity cyclist.

Without even a wrinkled joke in his writings, Gerard Henderson has the gall to tell us this: