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August 21, 2010
Like being handed an icepick
Richard Fernandez provides an interesting look at Australia's unexpected election; the liberal Labor Party was widely assumed to be coasting to victory -- if the MSM were to be believed -- but the conservatives have seemingly surged ahead, leaving the final result in the hands of the absentee voters (Florida and Bush v. Gore, anyone?) for an edge-of-your-seat photo-finish.
Fernandez buries a delicious turn of phrase near the bottom of his piece, wherein he discusses the possibility of Labor forming an alliance with the Green Party to keep conservatives from taking power:
[A] possible victory over the conservatives will be purchased at the price of a coalition with the Greens. That will drag Labor to the Left, which can only mean it will have more of what made it unpopular in the first place. A coalition with the Greens is like being handed an icepick to put out the fire in your hair.
Liberals seem to be on the defensive even Down Under, and the only thing more unpopular than liberals are tree-hugging, global-warming moonbats, aka, the Green Party.
"Like being handed an icepick to put out the fire in your hair."
Brilliant.
Posted by Mike Lief at August 21, 2010 07:47 AM
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