Time to go and eat worms?

A quick post tonight (family stuff got in the way of my usual night’s schedule, and also I want to relax and watch Paper Giants!)
Today’s Nielsen Polls has the ALP behind 44-56 (have been told if they did half percentages it would’ve been 44.5 – 55.5).
On tonight’s 7:30 Report Chris Uhlmann pointed out the Government has a few fights on its hands. He’s right. But his list was a little light. Here are the fights the ALP has

• Those who are against the Carbon Tax:
  • The miners
  • The manufacturers
  • The AWU and AMWU
  • Woolies and Coles and etc
  • Right-wing think tanks who for some reason don’t think the market is the best way to fix something
  • Those who think climate change can be solved by someone else
  • Those who think climate change is best solved by paying polluters to be nice
  • Those who are old and listen to Ray Hadley and know they’ll be long dead before their grand kids have to live with the effects,.
  • Those who say – hey I’ve got fluoro lights, what more do you want?
• Those who are against the mining tax:
  • The miners
  • Anyone who has anything to do with the miners
  • Right-wing think tanks who will say the world will come to an end if the mining tax will come into being
• Those who are against the pokies restrictions:
  • The clubs
  • Woolies (because they own a shirt load of clubs)
  • Australians (well it’d be un-Asutralin not to)
• Those who are against the tobacco packaging laws:
  • Tobacco companies
  • Woolies and Coles (haven’t really seen this yet, but who do you think sells the most cigarettes?)
  • Right-wing think tanks who will say that the Govt mandating packaging is acquiring IP even though the Govt already mandates packaging. 
• Those who think the Govt is about to hurt everyone on welfare:
  • People on welfare
  • People not on welfare but who think a Labor Govt should actually show some bloody compassion.
  • People who don’t really give a damn about people on welfare but who just want the Govt to act like what they think a Labor Govt should act like, so they can hate them for being that.
• Those who think the Govt is stuffing up the asylum seeker issue:
  • The Liberal Party
  • The Greens
  • Anyone who supports neither of the above but thinks the ALP should show some bloody compassion
  • The few One Nation supporters people bussed in to protest the ALP actually showing some bloody compassion by placing asylum seekers in decent facilities in the Adelaide hills.
• Those who think the Govt should not worry about getting back into surplus:
  • Those who think deficits are fine because the economy is slowing
  • Those who think the deficit is because the Govt wasted the surplus to begin with
  • Those who think inflation is a thing that the RBA can take care of
  • Those who don’t care at all about any of this but when they hear the word budget they swear and hate whoever is in power.
• Those who think the Govt has a problem with middle-class welfare:
  • Those who want middle-class welfare slashed to pay for everything they want
  • Those who are in the middle-class and think cut my payments and you will be dead to me
  • Those who are in the middle-class and think middle-class welfare is bad, but just don’t touch child care rebate, which happens to be the only bit of middle class welfare being talked about.
• Those who still think the BER was a waste:
  • People who aren’t real good at maths.
  • People who say, “But if the surplus worked why is the US is at 10 per cent unemployment?”.
• Those who are against the NBN:
  • People who think the country is a thing where you have your hobby farm
  • People who think the laws of physics have a left wing bias
  • People who think the Telstra will do it (despite it having shown zero desire in the past)
• Those who think the Govt has a problem with the gay marriage issue:
  • People who are gay
  • People who are not gay but think an ALP Govt should show some bloody compassion.
• Those who actually can’t think of any specific policy they don’t like they just don’t like the vibe":
  • Those who think Julia Gillard should cry
  • Those who think Julia Gillard should not cry
  • Those who think Julia Gillard fakes it when she cries
  • Those who think she needs to do something about her wardrobe
  • Those who think she needs to do something about the voice
  • Those who think she lacks gravitas
  • Those who think she is wooden except when in parliament
  • Those who think she should not be so attacking in parliament
  • Those who think “JuLIAR” qualifies as intelligent debate
  • Those who think she is a communist
  • Those who think she is more right wing than John Howard
  • Those who liked her once but don’t now
  • Those who never liked her and still don’t
  • Those who think politics is stupid and since everyone else seems to be not like her or Tony Abbott they might as well do the same.