This week I’ve been surprised at the popular reception of Rudd’s political and intellectual wank fest, sorry think tank.  Whilst the think tank will be full of a lot of people who like to think that they know a lot and will most certainly enjoy sitting around telling others what they think about how the world, or the part they claim to know most about, I’m surprised it’s being held at all.  To me, it’s Rudd saying, “I have no idea how to run the country now I’m here, so I’m going to invite a bunch of people to give me a few pointers.”

In some respects it can only help as Rudd and Swann, every time they open their mouths to comment seem to just reinforce that they have never so much as read the introduction of an economics text, let along have any idea how the economy works.  It also cleverly removes them from the actual decision making.  So whilst they may determine which advice they take, they also create an ingenious scape goat should anything go wrong.

I definitely will never accuse the man of being stupid or un-astute in that respect – just clueless.  And what happened to all the brillant policy that was taken to the election?

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23160434-3102,00.html

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