stalled in committee

I note with interest our political lords and masters up in Canberra have come up with a brilliant idea for solving the world’s problems: they’ll ask people.

Kevin Rudd expects policy ideas in focus by year’s end

What a stroke of genius! Seeing as I’m generally sympathetic to that side of politics I’ll conveniently ignore that, for a party that came into power promising “new leadership”, they seem to have run out of ideas remarkably quickly.

I’d be interested to hear how Kevin07 intends herding 1000 self-described “experts” into some sort of coherent direction. I would have thought it’s more or less impossible. Going to a committee with no clear idea of the desired outcome is normally an excellent way of making absolutely nothing happen.

Anyway, I expect to see my invitation in the mail shortly. I expect to be invited to the forum around running issues. I also anticipate making substantial input to “policy direction” in the fields of Bob Dylan lyrics and dodgy blog posts.

Update
Apparently there isn’t going to be a forum on running issues. Very disappointed, Kevin. I’m beginning to suspect you’re last year’s man.

Get with the program.