Tim Blair

life can be tough... sometimes tougherer. who knew a pol could be such a sensitive soul

"Rorts"?

It is believed that Nick Sherry was pressured to stage his attempted suicide in order for the Libs to back down over rorts pressure against Labor... Kim Beazley was supposed to be next on their hit list.

Fuck me dead, I'd hate to see these people in a genuinely stressful job.

To paraphrase John Clark:
"They wouldn't know stress if it popped up in their porridge."

Pretty easy to be a serious piss-artist when your bar is subsidised by taxpayers; if I had to sit through question time, especially one of Bob Brown's meandering (and lengthy) self-absorbed diatribes, I would want to be absolutley bladdered.

"I did leave 12 months later, but the damage to my mental health was done by that time."
That's a pretty effective way of cutting back on commissions from the features editor.

But then, it hasn't stopped Margo getting published.

Feel no pity for them. They can dish it out but they can't take it.

Senator Len Harris should fit right in there then. He was always one for making his own liqueurs and wine- I used to like his mango liqueur myself. I wonder how much talcum powder it takes to cover up that red schnozz of his.

His analyst diagnosed acute whining pussy syndrome and told him he was in the wrong party.

For the yearly income and subsequent pension I'd gladly take on their "stress" and then swan around on goverment fact-finding junkets to Amsterdam, Berlin, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong etc to see how their over-stressed pollies deal with stress.

I could write a really long paper on the pros and cons of various therapies - all of which I would enjoy at your expense, twice, especially Amsterdam's solution to pollie stress.

Politicians have always disgusted me with complaints over job conditions. Poor working conditions are when a 10 year old doesn't even have a pair of thongs in a sweat-shop, not when some other whinny leech calls you a name.

It is a disgrace that Bartlett is staying on. If you want to urge him to step down as Democrats leader and resign as Queensland Senator, send him an email.

And then he joined the Democrats.

Well, at least he's out of politics.

If Bartlett resigns as Senator from Queensland, who will the Democrats put up as his replacement?

drew hutton may get his withered old arse on red leather yet- he's being trying to weasel his way in for thirty years, but I think he's too deranged even for the Democretins.

Did Barnes tell the Liberal Party about his mental condition when he tried to get Liberal pre-selection? (As I recall, his campaign consisted of attacking Howard with an election looming. He acted hurt and surprised and moaned and whined when for some reason the Libs. disendorsed him.)

Poor little baby Greg! I spent six months working in Federal Parliament as a staffer in 1999 and it was the easiest job I've ever had. It was a sad day when I had to leave and do some real work as a trade union lawyer - try that for stress, Barnes!