'Beware a Labor-Greens axis'

Source: The Australian - news.com.au

JOHN Howard has warned Australians they risk electing a Labor-Greens alliance that would impose a new national direction and conduct radical experiments with their values and institutions.
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"You talk about checks and balances," Mr Howard said, warning of a Labor victory. "It would see the least checked and balanced political distribution in the history of the country."
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Mr Howard warned that a Labor victory would mean a Labor-Greens Senate majority and an era of social re-engineering, with policy changes on drugs, education, social issues and political correctness in conflict with his social conservatism.
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"There will be a return of political correctness. There will be a softening in relation to things like drugs. You will get a less socially conservative country at the very least.





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Well, if things don't go well for us in 2008, Australia sounds like it might be a good place to move to if Howard and his fascist pals get kicked to the curb.

Hopefully, though, a Labor-Green Axis will be formed in Australia, and we will have a similar socio-political evolution out of Bu*h/republican fascism.

Anything but that! :o

lol

He's sounding a bit shrill and desperate.

Unless TeeVee has lied to me, that seems to be the way things are done down under!

Nothing but desperate scare tactics and fear mongering.

Howard's goons have had ads with scary background music warning folks that Labour had (gasp) ex-unionists in their ranks!!

Oh yeah, they are sooo desperate right now.

I am hoping that they have some live video streaming going on the weekend because I want to see that pipsqueak's face when he concedes after getting one hell of a collective boot in the arse from my fellow countrymen and women!

God, I sure as hell hope so. Another Bush, with marginally greater control of the English language, is NOT what the world needs for another three or four or five years.

Howard can win if he holds onto certain constituencies- he can control Parliament even if he only gets 48% of the national vote.

My hopes are that his draconian Industrial Relations (workplace) laws will provide the margin that Kevin Rudd needs in those areas. Anyone working for a living is certainly voting against their best interests by voting for the Liberal/National coalition. Hopefully, unlike Americans, they will learn before it's too late.

It should be a narrow victory for Rudd and Labor. Knock on wood.

Howard may even lose his own seat after his district got redrawn.

The Greens have a chance to be power brokers by cutting a deal with Labor in the Senate.

Good riddance to Mr. Howard.

Au LIBERALS allied with CONSERVATIVES? That's how Howard holds power?

No offense guys, but maybe being "down under" has let too much blood go to your heads. JOKING!

:shrug:

After all, WE have "Compassionate Conservatives."

Prior to FDR, those who favored government intervention against monopolies and unfair competition in the US were called progressives. The conservatives who favored laissez-faire economic policy were called liberals because they believed in maximum freedom in the pursuit of commerce. They did not believe in government regulation because it restricted their freedom, cynically the freedom to dump mercury into the local creek.

As a result, calling a leftist in parts of Europe and other parts of the world a liberal may be seen as an insult.

Or at least in the center-right, with real progressive/labor/socialist/socialdemocratic parties left of center.

It now means that someone else follows their values. It's generally used by the right to smear the values of the left.

It used to be used as a self-critique for over emphasizing the esoterica of one's own positions.

'There will be a return of political correctness. There will be a softening in relation to things like drugs. You will get a less socially conservative country at the very least.'

It all sounds like a great idea!

everywhere else, why not here in the US?

Well, I guess we have to have something crazy to compare to. :hide: