Comments on: Christopher Pyne, saviour of the party.

By: clubwah

clubwah — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:44:04 +0000

Jesus, putting a bunch of old people anywhere near Gerard Hernderson would surely suck what life they left right out of their frail bodies. Dr Philip Nitschkie couldn’t do better.

By: alburywodongaonline

alburywodongaonline — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:05:10 +0000

Dave, I’ve changed address, could you please update your blogroll to put Albury Wodonga Online (no “chronicle”) at the address in my tagline?
Thanks mate.

By: alburywodongaonlinechronicle

alburywodongaonlinechronicle — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:16:31 +0000

maybe that should be “Pyne” scented air fresheners.

By: alburywodongaonlinechronicle

alburywodongaonlinechronicle — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:13:29 +0000

a double disolution would kill the Libs right now, absolutely kill them, they would go the way of the democrats nothing surer.
I’d hardly consider Christopher Pyne a “saviour”, he might be waxing lyrically about handing the reigns over to the rank and file but the Liberal party is so synonomous with branch stacking that a member recruitment drive will end up being just another way to do just that.
His huflepuff about moving away from their “hard right” policies is just a phurphy too I think, Pyne himself is one of the most arch conservative members of that caucus, it’s window dressing is all. A light coat of greenwash time and hang a few pine scented airfresheners on some of their more pungent policies.
They can see the axe coming so they have realised they have to keep their red-neck ways under wraps for a while. It’s a lie-low not a reform.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:09:49 +0000

It’s scary to think that Mr ‘blow-up-the-pokies” is going to have the swing vote in the senate. If he takes a conservative tack, then you may find that the coalition throws up a few sacrificial lambs to cross the floor because Mr 7% will not want to face a double disillusion. Tell you what, though, it would be a great opportunity to have a double dissolution election and a referendum on key issues such as whether South Australia’s representation should be reduced by at least one seat in the lower house.

By: Dave from Albury

Dave from Albury — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:01:27 +0000

Pyne opening his mouth in public is always gold for the ALP. I have no doubt that if it were up to the government, Chris would be opposition leader by now. What is it about South Australian Liberals and bufoonery?

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:59:02 +0000

Pyne has as much awareness of the U.S political system as his former boss. He obviously hasn’t seen Obama and Hillary attack each other to the point that there is no way they can run against the GOP as a joint ticket. Clever boy that Christopher. That said, Pyne and Abbott going at it in a televised debate would ensure another term for Labor, so maybe that’s the silver lining to Pyne opening his mouth in public.