Posted on 09/19/2009 5:20:25 PM PDT by Dundee
KEVIN Rudd has had another expletive-riddled brain explosion - this time directed at Labor's faction bosses, including three women MPs...
The faction leaders had gone to see the Prime Minister in his Parliament House office to object to Government plans to cut MPs' printing allowances from $100,000 to $75,000 a year.
The decision was in response to a report into parliamentary perks by the Auditor-General.
Mr Rudd had been given an advance copy and had decided on the dramatic cut, fearing a voter backlash to the revelations about how the allowances were being abused...
According to sources, three of those MPs present put an initial case to the PM for retention of the printing allowances...
According to sources Mr Rudd said: "I don't care what you f***ers think!"
He then went on, singling out Senator Feeney declaring: "You can get f***ed". Before asking in regard to the printing allowance issue: "Don't you f***ing understand?"
Sources said this was only a part of what was a much more detailed expletive-riddled verbal attack on the faction leaders. The sources defended Senator Feeney saying his argument had been "reasonable"...
The PM goes out of his way to publicly cultivate the impression of being calm, unflappable and reasonable. This private outburst will shock some voters, especially the church-going PM's use of the "f" word.
Former prime minister John Howard was never known to swear in this way, publicly or privately. The language of both Paul Keating and Bob Hawke was acknowledged as being "colourful".
Previous temper tantrums from the PM have included a verbal assault on an RAAF VIP hostess on Mr Rudd's private plane...
There were also reports that he lost it on a trip to see Australian troops in Afghanistan when his hairdryerwas misplaced.
But the Prime Minister's office denied those reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...
Sounds like a delightful person. /sarc
Cutting the MP’s fringe benefits is a good thing but he seems like a very bad person overall. As for “Church-going”, that is meaningless today with so many churches without moral standards.
“Bad person” is putting it mildly. He goes ballistic over a hairdryer and shoutsdown an air hosteess. The fella has some “issues.”
I think anyone who desires to run for President should b committed. We should someone at random.
Kinda like a lottery, eh? When you turn 18, you have to complete a form just like Selective Service? Hmmmmm, that could be really interesting...
Sounds like a real “class act”.I’ll wager that Rudd and Hussein would get on like a house on fire.
I think it was William F Buckley who once wrote "I'd rather be ruled by the first 200 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the people we have in Washington today".
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