You know you’re an Aussie poli-tragic when an infographic which could for most people in the world have happily been linked to in the Whimsy thread just gets you thinking about suckholes and the US-Australian alliance (isn’t Bob Carr surprisingly quiet?).
10 Ways a Conga Line is Exactly Like a Cult
Politics is really bland at the moment. The soundbites are so focus-grouped that you just don’t get any inventive invective any more.
Image source: original source unknown, found illustrating a forum discussion via Google images. Couldn’t resist it.
For some reason, even though I was thinking about Bob Carr visiting Washington while I was writing it, I wrote Anglo-Australian instead of US-Australian at first and didn’t catch it until just after I hit the “Publish” button. Oops.
Heh. I can’t recall exactly when Mark Latham came out with that line, but I know that my husband and I chortled over it, and lamented over the comparative blandness of NZ politics. No one over here in NZ has nearly such a capacity for glorious invective.
Deborah – Latham was no Paul Keating, but he did have his moments.
P.S. My favourite piece of impromptu political banter still remains with Gough circa 1972:
This is my favourite Gough quote
@Mindy: hilarious!!
I was unexpectedly reminded of Latham when watching Nick Broomfield’s doco on Sarah Palin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1965264/). She’s painted as the type to view people as either enemies or friends, with the latter shifting into the former category in a heartbeat, often with little cause.
I just couldn’t help recalling Latham’s beefs* with pretty much everyone from Whitlam (and Joel Fitzgibbon?) down. I recalled how he wrote people up in his book as voting against him in the party room – even after they showed him physical evidence that their vote went his way.
*Incongruous, but I’m keeping it!