Buyer's remorse about K R Puff'n'Fluff?

David Penberthy regrets: In my former job editing Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph, we decided to back the Rudd Government in our 2007 election eve editorial in large part because we believed (like the voters, as it happened) that John Howard had run his race, that the clunky leadership transition he had put in place was a recipe for instability and that the Liberals had failed to outline a fifth-term vision.   While I still don’t think the clapped-out Libs left us with any choice, the creeping fear now is that we have an ascendant, unquestioned leader who’s suffering from a surfeit of vision, who with his zany cheque handouts has gone overnight from fiscal conservative to game-show host, who is risking the livelihoods of blue-collar workers with environmental policies that will hurt jobs and the economy, belt household budgets and achieve no significant reduction in our carbon footprint, and who has embraced a broadband scheme that’s so mind-blowingly expensive that it may have been cheaper if the Government simply bought back Telstra.  Source

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