Fluff and Bubble

Have you noticed how the right wing pundits are asserting themselves a little more forcibly these days?

We have Alan Kohler with his usual rant about our government and the RSPT - featured in Crikey today. And I just renewed my subscription ;-( And the usual suspects telling us what a great thing the monk's promise to spend $1.5 billion on mental health is. Plus the picture perfect mental dwarf's who front the idiot box each night and "read" the news that has been "made up" by Rupert's faceless people. Aren't there rules about cross media stuff?

Excuse me! What short memories these people have. For those who won't or can't remember let me just remind you that the monk was "Health Minister" in the Howard Government when that miserable lot were turfed out for being incompetent in November 2007.

Yes Abbott was the *actual health minister* with constitutional responsibility for all of health - including mental health. And what did he do about mental health when he was last dispensing the money and pulling the levers? Let me summarise with a short acronym - SFA.

And now as "opposition leader" he has published a grand plan to spend $1.5 billion to fix the thing that he couldn't manage to fix when he was the responsible minister?

The monk may one day become Prime Minister - but I hope that I am not around to see it because it is clear to me that he is a charlatan - and a first class one at that.

He will say and do and be anything that he thinks it is appropriate to say and do and be - to get our people to vote for him and his crew of misfits. And he knows that the vast majority of us don't have even a small understanding of his Machiavellian manipulation and scheming - or even care about it. He knows that most of us aren't smart enough or interested enough to understand how and why we are being manipulated by a combination of his party, big business and an ugly right wing media.

And if that isn't a charlatan then I don't know what is?

But you know - if we as a nation have allowed ourselves to be placed in this position then we probably only have ourselves to blame.