Act in haste ...

No doubt about politicians. They are hardly deep thinkers.

Back in March, as Ms Gillard was under pressure from yet another (ho hum!) futile Rudd putsch ... Mr. Rabbit must've succumbed to hubris generated by the opinion polls, when he promised publicly that he would move a no confidence motion to bring down the government during the budget session.
Well, the budget session has come and almost gone. What happened to the promise?

Things change. Still super-confident of victory in September, the bunny finds that the budget has been fairly well received universally and, ... shock! horror! ... there are quite a few elements in it that the coalition intends to SUPPORT for their own future well-being (eg. $43billion of projected savings which their team will sorely need to help float their own plans for the country after September). If he were to bring down the government before the budget is passed ... blame for the 'slash and burn' required to finance his (hopefully) new administration's plans would be on the coalition's head and not the 'former regime', as is usually a given in politics at the top.

Sooo ... what are you going to do? If you honour the promise, you're cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you choose instead to PASS the budget to serve your own perceived needs ... then you are seen to be literally supporting the government's credibility ... which would render any plan to censure it a complete laughing stock!

Such is a prime example of the choices we are going to be presented with in a few month's time. Frankly, I'm already convinced that voting for either of the major parties is a waste of time. They are game players focussed on the present, who never seem capable of weighing the consequences of their precipitate actions ... even when those actions produce 'bombs' that later blow-up in their own faces!