Mood:
cheekyTopic: aust govt
The ABC and no doubt other big media are reporting a spill motion in the federal Liberal Party room tomorrow morning.
What it shows is the tactical cunning of Nelson with a pair of twos in his hand given Costello while in the Parliament will not contest for now. So Nelson can win on that front.
For the same reason Costello doesn't want to go so very early in the tedious 2 years out election cycle his rival Turnbull will not find the spill tomorrow morning very convenient.
So as agricultural as Nelson is, and mind numbingly determined to survive, so he also can damage Turnbull by exposing him as not having the balls if he also doesn't challenge.
Which only leaves Turnbull to grab the holy grail too early only to burnout in time to fit Costello's timing of a year hence to really make a run within reach of the federal election. Is this the tag team Nelson and Costello have been cooking?
And why would Nelson want to stay in the miserable job anyway at such low polling and drag the party to the destructive divisive Howardista Right? All we can come up with is that Nelson must be a masochist.
Sure while he remains in the middle - to further tease out the 5 day test match metaphor - the scorer has to record him, the crowd have to notice him unless they nod off or leave the stands altogether, which judging by the polls they are indeed doing.
Nelson can't win this test match all he can do is play for time and get a draw by not getting out, even as the crowd and the scorer know in their heart who is the better team. In this sense Nelson is Kevin Rudd and federal ALP Parliamentary Party's best friend.
Sooner or later Brendan Nelson is going to have to face his own Hippocratic Oath in light of his support for the murderous Iraq blood for oil scandal. Until then he will keep batting on in denial. Anything is better than facing that. Facing himself.
