Australia’s Boy Wonder PM Kevin Rudd is off on his 16th overseas trip since he was elected 10 months ago. He’s been gone so often, a map has even been created to track his wandering ways.
Where is Kevin this week? Off saving the American economy! As Piers Akerman relates,
Late Friday, usually reliable Treasury sources claimed that Rudd had asked Treasury for five ideas on solving the sub-prime crisis he could take with him this week to the US and present in his talks to senior American officials.
The laughter, as this story was retold around Canberra dining tables, could be heard echoing across Lake Burley Griffin.
Action-Man Kev. For the past 10 months in Australia, he’s done nothing but watch - and now he has delusions that he can fly into New York and single-handedly solve America’s sub-prime crisis?
Can’t wait for another Zelig Rudd / Being There moment.
September 21, 2008, 2:02 pm at 2:02 pm
Can this guy get any more embarrassing?
September 21, 2008, 2:23 pm at 2:23 pm
Maybe he’ll excitedly salute Ben Bernanke or Hank Paulson just before he tells them what they’ve been doing wrong all this time and how to fix it
September 21, 2008, 2:32 pm at 2:32 pm
spot_the_dog
That second link is a good one. Looks like the US knew it was coming but couldnt formulate anything to stop it.
September 21, 2008, 2:38 pm at 2:38 pm
Yeah, Mole, Bernanke had been warning about it for well over a year; McCain had been warning about it since 2005.
September 21, 2008, 2:40 pm at 2:40 pm
“For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – known as government-sponsored entities or GSEs – and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market,” McCain said on the floor of the Senate in 2005, speaking in favor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005.
McCain pointed out Fannie Mae’s regulator had stated the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The bill passed the House but was never brought up for a vote in the Senate, largely because of Democratic opposition to change in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac regulatory structure that remained in place until the Treasury takeover two weeks ago.
And Kevin’s gonna fix it? Hehehe.
September 21, 2008, 3:03 pm at 3:03 pm
Omega males like to watch.
September 21, 2008, 4:09 pm at 4:09 pm
Angus, one of these days you’ll have to do us up a post on Omega Males, especially those in politics like Kevin Rudd & Barack “Crash Helmet Urkle” Obama.
September 21, 2008, 5:00 pm at 5:00 pm
Geez and Obama hasnt been sunk by this info?? If it had been GWB or McCain whos recieved that dough the media would be over it like flies on shit.
Has it gained any airtime worth mentioning in the US??
September 22, 2008, 12:16 am at 12:16 am
Kev’s been everywhere, man
Kev’s been everywhere, man
He’s been to
Kyoto, IPCC, Al Gore, Tim Flannery …
Every Greenhouse gas summit, man
Kev’s been everywhere, man
September 22, 2008, 12:50 am at 12:50 am
So glad you could prove my point John from West Virginia. Thank you. Now that you’ve spent an hour of your life browsing our site, would you like to make a point that actually has any basis in reality? – Ash
September 22, 2008, 9:12 am at 9:12 am
Ash – the commenter above (and his 20-25 other identities here) doesn’t even use a valid email address. His comments probably shouldn’t be published at all unless, as we suggested to him some time back, he (a) sticks to one sock puppet, and (b) uses a valid email address. No more of this
ediek0lr65@oek9thep.met
jkiekdr7468dh40@mmvnjfurthep.not
randomly-generated shit.
We’ve deleted about 30 of your sockpuppet spewings, idiot. And will delete the rest, too, until you start playing by the rules.
September 22, 2008, 3:35 pm at 3:35 pm
It’s like ‘Where’s Wally/Waldo’.
September 28, 2008, 1:42 pm at 1:42 pm
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