THE Opposition Leader was without doubt the standout performer of the year. Put aside your opinion of his (lack of) policies and his negative tactics. Indeed, put aside his poor personal ratings, too. Abbott can single-handedly take credit for the pressure the government is under. Despite coming heartbreakingly close to winning the 2010 election, he continued to work every day to expose government failings. So good has Abbott been, it's hard to distinguish between opposition spin and how Labor is really travelling. Can he keep it up for another two years? (see critique of this crap below)

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/peter-van-onselen-issues-his-end-of-year-political-report-card/story-e6frezz0-1226233856912

For half a second I thought Peter Van Onselen was JOKING... But then I realise I was not reading the Sun-Herald but had grabbed the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH by mistake... The ST is a Murdoch run newspaper — where people are possibly employed for their glorious ability and dogginess to bash Labor and Promote Tony Abbott — the Tonicchio puppet made of that kind of drift-wood with which we uselessly try to unblock dunnies. Of course, Tony Abbott was the deserved recipient of the annoying whinger of the year award, handed out by Mike Carton...

Opinions differ.

Here, in Gustown, Tony Abbott is known as "the Little Shit".

Tony has no idea about global warming and he goes downhill from there... Thus he goes and join the protest movement of the blue-rinse-set against whatever warming bizos because old folks like them are grumpy about things they don't understand — as explained by Alan Jones to his audience of ignoramuses: "if you don't understand, it means it's untrue unless it's my own fudge". Of course, they don't want to make the effort to get what it's all about because it's too scientific and complicated, thus it must be wrong.  Yes, we oldies, have earned our stripes to whinge till we drop... And Tony is the master whinger, despite being younger...

At the moment, many "liberals" (conservatives) hate Tony Abbott for dragging the Liberal (conservative) party into the gutter of "popularcrapism", but he is the only ammunition they've got against Julia... Pyne is painful, Julie is staring at gnomes till they explode and Joe Hockey has got so much godly-bonhomie he would not know the difference between a circus clown and his glorious leader...