Howard’s back!

Posted by Bron on Monday 14 April 2008, 11:42 pm
Categories: Politics Tags: JohnHoward, LiberalParty

Albeit briefly.

Former Prime Minister John Howard has resurfaced, this time in Brisbane at some Liberal Sycophants Party shindig on Monday night. This gathering, costing $150 per head for members and $250 per head for non-members, was to celebrate his political life and career.

Celebrate?

Yeah, apparently. But we all remember how that political life and career ended, don’t we? Glorious, glorious!

“Yes, we are out of office federally and we don’t hold a state office but we have to keep a sense of balance and of perspective of what our party has contributed to this nation … and what it has a capacity to do for this nation in the years that lie ahead,” he told a Liberal Party fundraiser in Brisbane.

Keep a sense of balance and of perspective of what the Liberal Party contributed to this nation?

Yeah, but look at how all those “contributions” unravelled at a terrifying speed! In the end, whatever those contributions were, they amounted to nothing.

Mr Howard told the gathering, which included Dr Nelson and a number of his federal and Queensland colleagues, that he was there to help.

It would have been cute if he had said, “Hi, my name is John, I’m from New South Wales and I’m here to help”.

“Being in opposition is difficult,” Mr Howard said.

“Brendan does have a very difficult job as leader of the opposition.

“I will do everything I can in a quiet way to help you. I think former prime ministers should give quiet assistance.

“If there is any way that is consistent with that quiet role and quiet goodwill in which I can help you, I certainly will.”

You certainly can help, Johnny Boy. Tell the Liberals to keep WorkChoices or similar economic “reforms” as part of their policy platform. Please. Just be sure to do it quietly.

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12 comments on “Howard’s back!”

Monday 14 April 2008, 11:56 pm #Almost Always Wrong

“I will do everything I can in a quiet way to help you. I think former prime ministers should give quiet assistance.”
Were i doctor dud, i’d be wary. With friends like these, who’d need polling data?

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 2:29 am #steve

“Being in opposition is difficult,” Mr Howard said.

When a boofhead is quietly assisted by a has been, loser it can only end in tears.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 2:53 am #steve

Only the second Prime Minister in Australia’s history ever to lose his seat. Howard would not be a help to nobody going nowhere.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 6:39 am #magic bellybutton

He was in Brisbane? And I didn’t get the chance to throw eggs? Bugger.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 7:41 am #Rx

What a laugh, Liberal kooks talking about balance! LOL. They spent years groelling, licking the arse of the most extreme leader in the party’s history. Himself an arse licker par excellence. Oh, the comedy value.

Balance on, Lickerals!

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 7:57 am #steve

I don’t know that I’d call anything that hits the ground with a thud and is almost wrecked as balanced but that is the Liberal mentality.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 8:40 am #The Editor

I think the most stunning part of the night was when Bren-doc Nelson claimed that, “We are a better people, we are a better country, we are a better party for you and Jeanette.”

And Jeanette? AND JEANETTE!

I suppose it’s just proof that the unelected wife of the country’s Prime Minister did in fact influence policy development during Howard’s eleven long years.

Shameless.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 9:00 am #blogcomment

You left out the part where JH said that keeping perspective was important because The Liberal Party has been the Federal government for 42 of the 64 years it has been in existence.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 9:24 am #Rx

“I think I hear a rodent squeaking.”

“Well, whaddaya want me to do, oil it or something?”