Posted on 01/26/2010 8:29:42 PM PST by Texas Fossil
MASSACHUSETTS is a long way from Australia. Even so, you can count on the Rudd government paying close attention to what happened in the Bay State last week. A little known Republican, Scott Brown, won the Senate election by campaigning against the US President's radical healthcare plan. Massachusetts is sacred Democrat turf, held by the Kennedy clan for more than 40 years and by Democrats since 1952. It was the only state to vote for George McGovern over Richard Nixon in 1972.
Barack Obama's overreach on health care has plenty in common with Kevin Rudd's dogged pursuit of an emissions trading scheme. The Morgan Poll shows support for the ETS sliding from 50 per cent in August to 46 per cent last week, with disapproval growing from 24 per cent in August to 36 per cent in the most recent survey. If that trend-line continues, Obama's healthcare disaster could well be a mirror of Rudd's ETS nightmare in the coming months.
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Iran, Honduras, U.S.A. and now Australia?
I love all people who cherish Freedom.
I particularly love Australians. They are very much like Texans. Distinctive accent, open spaces abound, people are so independent as to be almost impossible to subject and a tad bit ornery.
Kudos to our Aussie friends.
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