OMG! I give Fielding two brownie points in one day!

I’m antithetical to almost everything in the subtext of "Family First" Senator Fielding’s platform, his power base, the way he works behind closed doors, etc, etc.

But I do have to give him a couple of big ticks today:

• Fielding’s dissenting opinion in the Senate Stimulus Package Report was fairly sensible (well, it agreed with me pretty much, heh heh).
• Fielding blasts the fundy nutter Nalliah who was number 2 on the "Family First" ticket a couple of years back.

Even the Greens’ dissenting report was quite good… better than their usual set of platitudes with little analysis.

Still, I wish the Dems were still in parliament… their forensic skills are sorely missed.

The only brownie point to Rudd for the majority view is that while it was self-congratulatory and somewhat selective in it’s quoting from the submissions it did quote (especially selective with Saul Eslake’s submission, which was quite scathing as I reported yesterday), at least it wasn’t as idiotic as the section from the Coalition.

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