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Turnbull’s Good-for-Nothing Liberals
Oh, how all of us on the right side of politics laughed when Prime Minister Gillard used to rabbit on about how her Labor government had managed to pass 7,234,869 bills through the Senate and on to the statute books. Okay, it may not have been more than five or six million, even a tad fewer, but you get what I mean. We’d all guffaw at the moronic assumption that anyone would measure the worth of a government by how many laws it passed. In the Gillard case, they were all pretty awful laws that got enacted. And any conservative worth a salt knows that doing nothing at all is better than doing something bad, something with long-term consequences that will likely be bad for Australia.
And we Righties also used to be sure that getting big-spending Big Government bills through the Senate was never this country’s problem. Anyone could do it, as the otherwise hapless Ms. Gillard so well demonstrated. Look, we know you won’t be able to get independent Senators who love cars,…
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