It has been a hard few days for the Leader of the Liberal Party and the Loyal Opposition, Malcolm Bligh Turnbull.
He now has Joe Hockey as Shadow-Treasurer and the gaffes have already begun:
"The market has made everyday Australians richer than they have ever been, even with this economic downturn,"
Cory Bernardi showed a stubborn streak and wouldn't publicly bend the knee to his leader.
Tony Abbot decided that single pensioners should continue to go without.
Confirming his view of a fortnight ago:
Of course, pensioners do it tough. And yes, I have never had to live on the pension and would need to change my life in order to do so. Still, is simply increasing the pension necessarily the best way to go given that pensioners in their own home are much better off, in practice, that those that aren’t. There is always a host of worthy causes that taxpayers’ money might be spent on. The question is what’s best at this time. I reckon that spending that improves the economy makes more sense right now, in the bad times, than spending which improves the social infrastructure.
Peter Costello is obviously enjoying the leadership speculation at Malcolm's expense.
Then John Winston Howard gave his leadership the kiss of death by endorsing it.
It must be remembered that Howard endorsed Brendan Nelson in much the same manner just before he lost the top job to Turnbull.
Still, Malcolm can always go home and hideout with his blogging dogs.
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