TORY UGLY:

No foxing, this is the real Kevin (Dennis Shanahan, February 26, 2008, The Australian)

IT was always going to be thus; sooner or later, the "progressives" were going to ask Kevin Rudd to drop the charade he adopted just to get elected and reveal the real Labor agenda.

Like survivors from the carpet-bombing of the culture wars, a number of academics and commentators have emerged from the shelters and debris holding a wish-list of progressive thinking for the Labor Government. It is also a political death list.

While every Labor MP, factional warrior and ambitious progressive has kept absolutely tight-lipped and unified in the first months of the Rudd Government, the idea that it's time for Rudd to unmask and reveal his hidden leftist social agenda has come from outside the party. [...]

There are two barriers to the implementation of most of these grand ideas: they are political suicide and Rudd doesn't agree with them.

And then you wake up the next morning, realize that Tony Blair really is a Tory and you'd gnaw your own arm off to get out of there...

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 26, 2008 7:08 PM