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Some of us are born petty and bitter. Others of us have pettiness and bitterness
thrust upon them. Such is the calling of federal politics to members of the'
Green party who couldn't contain themselves on election night, which saw LDP
candidate David Leyonhjelm picking up the fourth federal senate seat in New South
Wales. According to the Greens, people voted for the Liberal Democratic Party on the
NSW senate paper only because they thought they were voting for the Liberal
Party. Which is kind of odd because the numbers show quite clearly that the LDP didn't
push any Liberals out of the senate in NSW. They pushed out the Greens (who came
seventh, and hence missed out on their musical chair). Exactly many preference
flows were the Greens expecting from Liberal voters? Presumably the Greens feel that the name 'Liberal Democratic Party' is
misleading - the LDP merely being proponents of classic Liberalism and
Democracy and all that. Or maybe they thought that the words 'liberty' and
'democracy' were invented by the Liberals and the Democrats. Since the bitterness of election night the Greens seem to have gone back to
brooding sullenly over their organic lentils. Perhaps they realize that if
they were to push too hard for truthfulness in party naming, they might come
under a little scrutiny themselves. Socialists pretending to represent the
environment calling themselves 'Greens'. That's kind of funny - in a truly
offensive kind of a way. Others have of course have winged that the LDP only won a senate vote quota
because they got poll position in the lottery which determines who gets the
donkey vote. Apparently these detractors think that Australians (or is it just New South
Welsh(wo)men?) are too stupid to realise that voting is not a game of pin the
tail on the donkey. And still others still have dismissed the LDP as right wing gun nuts who will
be Tony Abbott's puppets. Maybe these donkeys just got sick of the government's
hand shoved up their butts? Well, you can't please all the people all the time. If Punch Drunk Tony is
expecting the LDP to be meek little bunnies, he may find the tail wagging the
donkey.
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