It's On!

It's on! In response to the aforementioned internal rumblings, Kim Beazley has courageously and correctly precipitated a spill, as part of a strategic manoeuvre to clear the air, which will amply demonstrate who can cut the mustard in the leadership stakes and who merely cuts the cheese. Presumably, the constant tedious talk about the absence of ticker - the needless nagging nattering - will be brusquely banished to the nether regions of the never-uttered-again as the concomitant consequence of the occurrence of this bold coup d'etat. Moreover, the outcome of the spill will hopefully be carthartic. The stark and unforgiving choice currently confronting the Caucus of the Australian Labor Party is between an experienced bloke who has gouged out the hard yards of solid exertion and who appeals at an undeniable gut level to the average Australian household dutifully seated around their time-hallowed kitchen table trying to make proverbial ends meet under the swingeing impact of the double whammy of the traitorous interest rate rises and the unAustralian WorkChoices legislation, a man of indubitable substance, a global statesman - no less - who bestrides the international stage like a veritable Canberran Colossus, a masterly tactician and rhetorician, and - on the other hand, in inapposite opposition, alone and palely loitering in the shadowy parliamentary wings - a pallid, pasty, pastel-wearing, Mandarin-speaking former Foreign Affairs mandarin who is uncannily evocative of a Da Vinci Code villain, namely, Kevin Rudd. The political tennis ball is now well and truly in the figurative court of the Caucus wisely and well to detemine the ultimate victor of this pivotal contest and thusly to annoint the party leader by whom they are desirous to be led in the inevitable approach in the direction of the electoral battle that is obviously looming large on the not-too-distant event horizon, i.e., the future. We can but trust they will vote with a sagacity that well befits the trust in which they have been placed by the rank and file of the Australian Labor Party and the great Australian public, in whom, through whom, and for whom the governmental sovereignty of this great nation soundly rests.