Thursday, April 30, 2009  Michael Cullen's valedictory  The
disembowelment of Labour is almost complete: Cullen is gone.
What were his four main low points?   • The failure to stop the
philistine obscenity of the Clyde high dam.   • The lack of
consensus around the foreshore and seabed issue.   • The
difficulty of getting a simple approach to the problem of leaky
homes.   • The failure to get the majority of the press gallery
to understand fiscal policy. Not a word about Rogernomics.  What
does that tell you.   clumsywizz said...  Good riddance. He will
not be missed.  Danyl said...  Not a word about Rogernomics.
What does that tell you. It tells me you didn't listen to his
speech:  "The urgent and necessary process of modernisation and
reform lurched off into ideological excesses underpinned by the
belief there was no gain without pain. That came to mean that
pain must inevitably lead to gain and then to a kind of
political sado-masochism in which pain almost seemed an end in
itself."  Adolf Fiinkensein sa