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With Utegate heating up, and the Emissions Trading Scheme entering a crucial week, Question Time today should be fiery. Crikey brings you the on-floor action as it happens.

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Jun 22, 2009

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RuddIsACommunist
16 years ago

Rudd and Swan are GUILTY.

This issue is NOT about an email, it is about the fraud on seret backroom deals and favours and liars covering their ar*ces.

Labour and Kevin ‘bully’ Rude’s private paid PR spin team can put all the smokes and screen diversion tricks up, coz Kevin ‘BULLY’ RUDE knows he is a goner and his reptutation shot…. he cried communist red tears last night, coz his globalist dream of being head of the United Nations Security Council is slippin away 🙂

RUDE and his Canberra flat mate of 10 years aka ‘Australian Treasurer’ Wayne Swan are in deep deep trouble over a scandal of favours for business dealings that could see both of them SACKED from Parliament, it has been labled as ‘Utegate’.

In Kevin Rudd’s bid to dodge fire, deflect and confuse the media reporting on the truth, he is firing furfy’s back at the main accuser Turnbull and getting his team to throw curve balls that looks like keystone cops with contradictory statements of fact and fiction.

It may be a dead swan song final curtain call to take the fall for his Kevin bloody Rude.

This is the Scandal of the Century as it involes LIES, DECEPTION, COVER UPS, FRAUD and PROPAGANDA SPIN at its Ruddy Best.

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David Sunbury
16 years ago

“This is the Scandal of the Century as it involes LIES, DECEPTION, COVER UPS, FRAUD and PROPAGANDA SPIN at its Ruddy Best.”

I think you’re a little confused you loser. Remember the Children Overboard affair? Remember the AWB scandal? THOSE were lies, deceptions and cover ups of the highest order. Scum like you and Liberal Party dogs should hang your heads in shame.

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Chris Johnson
16 years ago

Can we drag Tony off? The opposition shouldn’t have given him an audience.

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RuddIsACommunist
16 years ago

WOW David Sunbury

The anger and rage in the socialist-communist alliance supporters of Kevin Rude is outstanding.

Ad hominem 101 handed down from the FABIANS alive and well in OZ.

Still dear David …..Rudd and Swan are GUILTY 🙂

This issue is NOT about an email, it is about the fraud on secret backroom deals and favours and liars covering their ar*ces.

Labour and Kevin ‘bully’ Rude’s private paid PR spin team can put all the smokes and screen diversion tricks up, coz Kevin ‘BULLY’ RUDE knows he is a goner and his reptutation shot…. he cried communist red tears last night, coz his globalist dream of being head of the United Nations Security Council is slippin away 🙂

Rude and his Canberra flat mate of 10 years aka ‘Australian Treasurer’ Wayne Swan are in deep deep trouble over a scandal of favours for business dealings that could see both of them SACKED from Parliament, it has been labled as ‘Utegate’.

In Kevin Rudd’s bid to dodge fire, deflect and confuse the media reporting on the truth, he is firing furfy’s back at the main accuser Turnbull and getting his team to throw curve balls that looks like keystone cops with contradictory statements of fact and fiction.

One of them MUST go – Kevin Rudd or Wayne Swan.

It may be a dead swan song final curtain call to take the fall for his Kevin bloody Rude.

This is the Scandal of the Century as it involes LIES, DECEPTION, COVER UPS, FRAUD and PROPAGANDA SPIN at its Ruddy Best.

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The Zebras
16 years ago

RuddIsACommunist – Holy shit. Honestly your a scary weirdo and should probably get help. That’s some serious creepy shit right there. What’s with the repeat posts and the mystifying emoticon placement? You’re totally freaking me out. Shiver.

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