tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post7008352136787730414..comments2023-12-30T01:23:38.125-08:00Comments on Riddled: Recycling, "hard" choices.Hamish Mackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18079552635307235197noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-25769101341190164372010-12-28T11:57:19.409-08:002010-12-28T11:57:19.409-08:00Nail meet hammer Smut. It is the growing sense of ...Nail meet hammer Smut. It is the growing sense of unreality that kept me reading. As though it was dispatches from Narnia. Codders can't see past some weird aggrandisement. Like ACT has some significance, and yet there is Hide as the minister for local government.Hamish Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18079552635307235197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-10672834889353531502010-12-28T00:37:35.692-08:002010-12-28T00:37:35.692-08:00So I've actually followed the link now and Cod...So I've actually followed the link now and Coddington's screed is the real recursive wrongness. The closer you attend to it, the more distantly removed from reality it turns out to be. <br /><br />I mean, what she writes has nothing to do with the empirical facts about political parties and individuals, but it's not connected to the received opinions about them either. There are recognisable proper nouns there but for the counter-reality way she talks about them ('ACT supporters from the hinterland', that sort of thing), it might as well all be "colourless green ideas sleeping furiously".Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-86321706472347223442010-12-27T18:15:24.114-08:002010-12-27T18:15:24.114-08:00Trouble is, a vacuum exists where there should be ...<i>Trouble is, a vacuum exists where there should be a big stud-muffin in Parliament</i><br /><br />I must insist upon scantily-clad sex kittens.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-15401934083551283892010-12-27T13:57:53.475-08:002010-12-27T13:57:53.475-08:00...described the media's portrayal of events a...<i>...described the media's portrayal of events as "wildly overblown".</i><br /><br />I'm sure we all know what that means.<br />~Mickey Kaus' goat™³²®©http://ifthethunderdontgetya.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-53214218416655245452010-12-27T13:27:47.190-08:002010-12-27T13:27:47.190-08:00a single interest party (no taxee, no spendee)
Sa...<i>a single interest party (no taxee, no spendee)</i><br /><br />Sadly this policy lost the "gullible dimwit" sector of voters after it was tried and failed, and more importantly it lost the financial support of the corporates (who shifted their strategy to buying out the National Party), so ACT lost any pretense to intellectual coherence and went for "opportunism" instead, with a shifting portfolio of vaguely right-wing policies, determined mainly by the obsessions of individual MPs. At various times it has been pro- and anti-immigration (depending on the wealth and ethnicity of the immigrant), pro-gun ownership, tough on crime, against parliamentary perks, pro-property rights, anti-property rights of Maori, and so on. <br /><br />Deborah Coddington was part of the party's problem. She devoted her term in Parliament to her own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Coddington" rel="nofollow">anti-pedophilia</a> crusade and naming sex offenders, not always with entire accuracy.*<br /><br />So now sex-offender-obsessed ex-MP is seeking a Strong Daddy. Issues, is all I'm saying.<br />-----------------------------<br />*The Wiki article is hilarious:<br /><i>Coddington has also had an unusually high amount of media interest in her personal life — early in 2004 journalists widely canvassed the financial problems of Alister Taylor, her partner (and her subsequent split from him), and later the same year, the media reported Coddington's distress about attention received from Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable. Kerr allegedly chased her drunk, across the grounds of parliament. Coddington described the media's portrayal of events as "wildly overblown".</i>Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-49489660017553428602010-12-27T12:27:17.346-08:002010-12-27T12:27:17.346-08:00I think that this is a perfect illustration of a ...<i>I think that this is a perfect illustration of a single interest party (no taxee, no spendee) that had a brief period when more than the usual rabid badgers listened to them and now cannot understand why they are losing popularity faster than Bernie Madoff did.</i><br /><br />So they'd be like our GOP, except for the unfathomable lack of popularity loss? (And the brief period would be most of the last three decades, but other than that...)<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-41551618879380521442010-12-27T11:58:54.933-08:002010-12-27T11:58:54.933-08:00has his MPs squeal "how high?" as they w...<i>has his MPs squeal "how high?" as they work like navvies, punching above their weight.</i><br /><br />So ACT politicians are simultaneously Irish labourers, boxers, and frogs. Is Coddington paid by the metaphor?Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.com