Lightweight Lightfoot

According to this SMH article Senate numbers are behind the PM’s inaction in the case the Travels and Travails of Lightfoot. Could be right too. It’s also right that the only reason Labour are banging on about Lightfoot is they live in hope of some how or other eliminating the looming Coalition majority in the Senate. Labour most probably have battalions of research assistants trying to dig up dirt on Conservative Senators. Any dirt…any Senator. We?ve got get rid of the Senate majority those stupid voters gave Howard. Sorry guys. I don’t think this case will do it. I think in the long term Lightfoot will be found guilty of skiting in a childish manner, but I don’t think a happy travel snap with an AK47 in your hand is a capital offence. Lightfoot says he was just being friendly In other weekend news Labour win at Werriwa, take a ‘gimme’ and try to claim it’s the turning point for politics in Australia. Labour were never in doubt and the Liberals didn’t even bother fielding a candidate. If I were Labour I’d just be happy with the result and get on with forgetting about Latham. Any mention of the ‘L’ word won?t help their cause. Tomorrows news hounds will try and rationalize it the same way. Some will even talk of the end of Howard’s honeymoon and if that doesn’t work they will start up another ‘reliable sources’ or ‘a Liberal insider’ said today that Costello is tired of waiting for the baton, type article. Beazley would have us believe it was all a vote against interest rates.

Mr Beazley, who phoned Mr Hayes from the wedding of his daughter Hannah in Perth to offer his congratulations, had urged people to vote Labor to send a protest message to Mr Howard about the recent interest rate rise.

While Liberals say;

… it showed voters “were pleased to get rid of Mark Latham”.