Just shows how unoriginal I am...

Thank you, George.

I have written a little explanation of what you're seeing here.

Why do I have to start a fscking blog site to read them?

Indeed.

Stephen Judd is too modest to link to his ruminator's digest of the last year's news, but it is truly compelling viewing. It's both beautiful and disturbing, and describes the print media in less than two…

policy one might expect from 9 friggin years in opposition

forgetting that National has 14 policies generated in those long dark years.

That said, I'm extremely disturbed by some of the things that Labour is doing. Instituting Guantanamo standards in it's new Immigration Bill, for one. After…

What happened if a druid, confused by the cold, plays someone elses melody?

He'd be off Key.

I really sorry you can't see the difference but it seems to be a failing you share with your party leadership. That's all.

And I'm really sorry that Ive wasted so much time and energy on debates — with both the loony left and rabid right — that ultimately boil…

where the goal posts never stop moving.

Heh, Craig. I dunno, but I think I speak for a few here who would apply that to the shifting sands that form some of the more interesting online discussions with you.

I mean come on, we are talking about where the hell…

The thing is Craig, you are talking further details about details.

Don: I'm sorry, but one thing I'm going to have little patience with this campaign season is an uneven playing field where the goal posts never stop moving.

I keep saying I wouldn't like to find myself in a lifeboat with Helen Clark,

Helen is a survivor,
Be it on mountain or plain,
the like of which amongst leaders is seldom seen,
by her side the valiant captain Mike
a treasury of wit who is rarely sullen,
together they…

Not gone, just working for Act. But I am still racked by guilt every night about what I did to him:

I'm happy to wade into John Ansell as well. The example quoted in Russell's link to an upcoming ACT ad comparing spending on giant snails with not spending on…

Annoyed with the Socialist lickspittle
the libertarianz said that it'll
be a cold day in hell
when in the house do they dwell
'cos the rest of us don't care a whittle

As I said, you are stretching into detail. And only because…

Um, Don, it's not a "possible exception" that Cullen was ordered to release the Treasury costings of the student loans policy during the campaign. Statement of fact, and as far as I'm aware no Chief Ombudsman had taken that step before, and I hope will never need to again.

Don…

Oh say... what rhymes with "merchant banker" then?

Oh me! Pick me! I know this one. It's... ooh it's right on the tip of my tongue!

The fact that Craig has to stretch so hard to find a possible exception speaks volumes.

Um, Don, it's not a "possible exception" that Cullen was ordered to release the Treasury costings of the student loans policy during the campaign. Statement of fact, and as far as I'm aware no…

And that is how 'Macarthur Park' came to be written....

I always thought he had his nostrils in something when he wrote that, rather than out.

The candidate must lie naked all night in a coffin-like box, only his nostrils protruding above the icy water with which it is filled, and with heavy stones laid on his chest. In this position he must compose a poem of considerable length in the most difficult of the many…

Andrew Little?

Some might say that's the definition!

And if Michael Cullen is going to be the designated hitman on this issue, then I think it's only fair to remind people that three years ago, he had to be ordered by the Ombudsman to release politically inconvenient Treasury costings of Labour's flagship student loans policy

Good point. And…

I dunno how well they'd do, what rhymes with "Socialist lickspittle"?

Andrew Little?

John Ansell might be gone, but surely the lesson has not been forgotten.

Not gone, just working for Act. But I am still racked by guilt every night about what I did to him:

"You do have to steel yourself when the people like the Russell Browns [Public Address blogger] attack…

But at least they have seemed to feel obliged to offer big wodges of detail in their policies and more willing to produce it sooner.

Ah, yes...would you include the '20 hours free childcare policy' where, after considerable prompting and exasperating even the usually horizontal Geoff Robinson, Steve Maharey eventually…

I predict the Libertarians would do rather well

I dunno how well they'd do, what rhymes with "Socialist lickspittle"?