Rudd fights wailing

Somehow it has all gone so wrong, but unfortunately Kevin Rudd, Wayne Swan, and Lindsay Tanner played every one of their 300 free “Blame The GFC” cards in about the same month that they bought every Australian a flat screen TV.

And now it seems that both their policy and their spin are being written by the same person who thought the only thing better than bringing back Hey Hey It’s Saturday would be airing it on Tuesdays.

But will the whining lefties, greenies, moderate righties, “senior Labor sources” and disgruntled backbenchers just stop complaining, even for a second, and look at all the green good this government has done?

Okay, so the only reason that any $43 billion nation-building future-proofing cash splash went green at all was because of pressure from the Greens and Nick Xenophon in the Senate. And more than just a backflip, Kevin Rudd’s complete abandonment of any attempt to regulate carbon emissions until 2013 was a total pike. How about the expansion of uranium mining – that’s lumionous green…

Out-Abbotted on the right, barely visible up the left, and with the ratification of Kyoto totally faded from memory, Kevin Rudd is going to make it all better. He’s taking Japan to the International Court of Justice over whaling… after the election.

Opportunistic much?

Never mind that Australia said nothing when Japanese whalers effectively imprisoned the New Zealand Captain of a multimillion dollar anti-whaling vessel they had recently sunk. Never mind that he, Peter Bethune, was defending whales in Australian waters off Antarctica at the time that this all happened. Never mind that he was trying to enforce Australian environmental law that no Australian government has sent ships to enforce itself. Never mind that he is currently being held in a Japanese prison as a prisoner of conscience having just plead guilty to four of five charges against him.

Never mind any of this or the fact that we are doing just as much damage to the environment as we ever did under John Howard, because of all the options he could have chosen to fight for whales and the environment, Kevin Rudd has chosen to make a symbolic gesture in an international court that won’t be recognized by the defendant or achieve anything for anyone.

Now, if he can just avoid the increasing harpoons thrown quietly by his own party…