Reasons you will hate me

I love PK, but judging by the letters in the Herald Scum today there are a lot of haters.

He's still the best hand grenade merchant floating around in Australian politics.

He sure makes Costello and Howard look dull, desperate and slow, and that's got to be a good thing no matter how much people like him.

Laurie Oakes IS a cane toad, Paul's right. I also absolutely LOVE that he told Richard Carlton that he was a 24-carat pissant. How perfect is that?
I've always loved this man.

And he has a kick arse clock collection.

That is a geniune reason for, and against, a PK comeback.

Yes, please, please, please! Yes, please! YES! (Emphatic enough?) Surprised you came up with even four reasons-why-not, Fits. Doesn't just one brilliant Keating spray show this current mob of venal shysters for the useless bunch of pricks that they are?

The very sound of his voice, especially when saying things like "all tip and no iceberg", makes me hot for politics all over again, in an entirely inappropriate way.

In fact, the "word verification" I've just had to type in here is a pretty good description: "wummfiqz".

Favourite PJKism was the description of John Hewson as "a shiver looking for a spine to run up".

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It would be worth it alone for helping us pretend the last eleven (ELEVEN!) years never happened. It was good to see he hasn't lost it. Journos nowadays seem to think Peter "all tip and no balls" Costello is a sparkling question time wit.

4. Howard is making a complete fucking hash of it on his own.

It is going well, isn't it? I haven't laughed at the Liberal Party this much since Pandagate.

Onwards and upwards, Australia, to where we were a while back.

I watched PK a few nights ago delivering 'Howard has lied to the country....' The man makes me giddy. Particularly when he shows Howard to be the schoolyard bully that he is. It could be a very good year.

The shit that comes out of PK's mouth is absolute gold. He will probably always remain my favourite Prime Minister.

One problem though, doesn't he make Kevin seem inexperienced?

he could also bring the back the bananas to fine republic.
He's definitely a sharp wit and has a level charisma that makes Howard look kind of like an old carpet.

Howard is canny, but Peako is really smart.


I know which I'd rather be.


*swoons*


*throws knickers*

By jingo I love the titles of your posts.

All I can say about Keating, love him or hate him, he can cut like a knife even when using a spoon.

It makes me remember how sweet/full of witticisms/normal life used to be.

The best PKism was when he said Malcomn Fraser looked like anEaster Island Statue with arse full of razor blades.

#5 reason he shouldn't -
The Economy - he fucked it up once, we don't need him to do it again.

I was always fond of his 'Mate, I want to do you slowly' line to John Hewson.

I enjoyed the stoushes with parliament's oldest and most hated member Wilson Tuckey

"you're a pig! sit down and shut up!"

Oh, I am SO in love.

You, me, PK.

He gets to watch.

Hey Cloudy! Thnx - Pandagate = my work! :)

Anonymous said...
#5 reason he shouldn't -
The Economy - he fucked it up once, we don't need him to do it again.
4:59 PM

Sounds like we have some Liberal scumbags polishing the benches of this blog.

Keating did not break us. Don't believe the hype that little trollop Howard has been peddling for a dozen years - whilst profiting from the essential and fundamental economic (unpopular) changes that Keating made during his time as Treasurer and PM. He resiled Australia from the crash of 87 and used metered deregulation to put us on a course for competitivness on the world stage.

And he didn't forget the average joe - it's Howard who has made this an econmomic boom for his fat-arsed mates and big portfolio shareholders, not the rest of us.

Howard took the Keating economic model and pointed it towards opportunistic, private interests - taking it way too far the wrong way - and taking the credit for the inevitable effect of global markets. Keating made the sails, Howard and his immoral mates took over the helm.

When Labor finally gets back in, they'll find the public asset cupboard bare; and a country run by corporate self-interest and greed.

Credit where credit is due.
I say thanks, Paul.

I lost all faith in (most of) the Australian people when Keating got done by a coconut.

your aussie politicans are a little strange looking but they do share the ubiquitous politican hair, don't they?

Does no one remember when upon asking a question of Malcom Fraser Keating was faced with Howard rising to answer and hit back with
"I want to hear from the Organ Grinder, not his monkey"?
Sighs and feels very old.

question time used to be so much more fun with keating's chamber-style insults.

bring that back, i say

An angry man, with a vicious tongue, a brain and a great line in sharp fucking suits.
I'm in Fitz: DYVAAK – Disappointed Young Voters All About Keating – is called to order.

I checked your Polichicks site ages ago because I wanted Paul Keating knickers or a t-shirt. Still do, really! Maybe just a photo and a whole lot of his best quotes pasted everywhere?

Hmmm, maybe should go into business myself...

Hey come on "Blaxland or bust", I'm sure the last thing Ms Fits wants is for her blog to become a political debate.

OK, so sarcasm doesn't work in blogs. Seriously reason 5 is that if Keating came back, it would completely close the door on Mark Latham returning.

Which would suck. Bring back Mad Mark, I say.

On interest rates Howard's 1982 rate was 21.4% and Keating's 1989 rate 17%. Though even if you compare the current 8% mortgage rates under Howard to the 17% rates under Keating, it still looks good for Keating. Average mortgage borrowings were $66,000 in 1989 resulting in an interest burden of $11,220 a year. Today average mortgage borrowings are at $222,000 with an interest burden of $17,760 (and a far greater principal debt).

With, Treasurer John Howard's 1982 recession. GDP fell by 3.8% and out of that inflation was running at 11 per cent. Compare that to the recession of 1990 and GDP fell by 1.7% and the average inflationary period that followed was running at 1.5 per cent. Both flattened the economy, though Howard's recession was deeper and resulted in high inflation. Where, Keating's recession gave us the longest low inflationary period in Australia's history.

If we go back to Malcolm Fraser's first treasurer Phillip Lynch there was no Government debt, though by the end of Howard's run as treasurer at the beginning of 1983 Government debt was 10% of GDP, yes that's right Government debt was created by Howard not the ALP.

Foreign debt under Keating reached $193 billion, though it's now $522 billion under Howard. Costello claimed in the Parliament last year that when the Liberals inherited office in 1996 the Government’s own liabilities as a percentage of foreign debt was 17% ($33 Billion) though now the Governments liabilities as a percentage of foreign debt is only 7% ($37 Billion). You see, even though the percentage is smaller of the current foreign debt, the amount in real dollar terms is far greater.

On productivity, economic growth, low interest rates and inflation Australia was ahead or equal to worlds best practise in the OECD under Keating. Now we are placed 16th or worse in the OECD in all these measures.

The All Ordinaries Index was 451 under Howard in March 1983 and by March 1996 it was 2200 under Keating. It now sits at around 5600 and it has risen sharply since the year 2000 at the time when Keating's 9% compulsory superannuation guarantee fell into the slot (this is the same superannuation guarantee that the Liberals opposed).

When Howard was treasurer between 1977 and 1983 the share of national income going into capital was 13% of GDP. Hawke and Keating through their Accord with the unions got the wage-profit share down to 53% of GDP for wages and income to capitol up to 27% of GDP.

In 1996 the Liberals had the 'blame Paul Keating for petrol prices' bumper stickers, when petrol was 65 cents a litre. It now sits around $1.20 a litre and gets to as much as $1.50! The excise on petrol was introduced by John Howard as treasurer and the GST which is taxed on the excise also (a tax on a tax) was introduced by Howard as Prime Minister.

How can it be that the world is experiencing a gargantuan commodities boom while Australia is continually experiencing it's biggest trade deficits on record every quarter over the last two years. We are a resource rich country, with unprecedented terms of trade and nothing to show for it.

In 1993 there was an unemployment rate 10.8% and a million unemployed and 100,000 on the disability support pension. Now there is over 400,000 unemployed and 700,000 people on disability support pensions. Marry the two together and you get the same figure, there is no real improvement, just some re-classifying for the sake of more pleasing figures for the Government.

i laughed for ages at the dessicated coconut quip... most pleased to have him back on the teev...

Was the "conga-line of suckholes" a Keatingism?

I'm with CW.. bring back Mark!!

Anonymous - conga line was Mark.

Well said Blaxland or Bust, I'm sick of Howard taking credit for the years of prosperity that are largely the result of decisions made by Keating (float the dollar and deregulate the banks, anyone ?) and yet simultaneously flogging him because of the short term effects that resulted from these decisions. Credit where credit is due (as much as it pains me to say so), Howard and Costello have done a good job managing the economy but they should have the grace to acknowledge that the really hard decisions were all made by PK back in the day and that they're now largely riding on the back of these.