Kevin Who

has become in the space of a week someone of such note that PM Howard has seen it necessary to throw mud at him. The irony is that had PM Howard left him alone, he would have faded like a supernova to a white dwarf by the time of the election.
I just loved that picture of the lying little rodent yesteday waving his Akubra to an imaginary crowd of well wishers.
When things are going well they compound. When things go badly, as they are for the PM Howard, he goes from bad to worse. What sort of judgement did he have in sacking a minister for getting in the way of mud throwing, and for being an inconvenient truth? A correct judgement would have been for Costello to apologise to Parliament: "Mr Speaker, I was wrong to attribute moral and political misjudgement on the basis of meeting with Mr Brian Burke. I realise that Mr Burke has served his time and as Christianity preaches, he should be forgiven, as I forgive him. Like Mr Prosser and Senator Campbell and many other worthy businessmen, the Leader of the Opposition should have nothing to fear by meeting with Mr Burke. Mr Speaker, I ask that my apology be accepted by the House."