Frustrations with Rudd

[dave_baker]

Rudd has been going poorly. Since backing down on the ETS, people have been questioning who exactly this man is, and why he is breaking so many promises. Abbott clearly isn't winning the debate, Rudd is losing it. Here are some policy backdowns and other problems this government has had since being elected:

• Cancelling Fuelwatch and Grocerywatch. This didn't concern me too much because nobody cared about them when they started. 
• Failing to deliver a fraction of the GP Super Clinics promised.
• Failing to deliver a fraction of the Childcare Centres promised.
• Poor accountability, questionable work practices and other assorted messups in the Pink Batts scheme.
• Graft in the Building the Education Revolution to the point where a 8m by 3m canteen costs $600k and the department doesn't question it.
• Backdowns in his Asylum Seeker Policy.
• Breaking his promise to not mess with the Private Health Rebate.
• Messing with the GST to try to get a plan to Take Over the Hospitals, though he took too long to even start talking about it. I'm not a fan of the proposal either.
• The Resources Super Profit Tax. Just... everything about it from its design to how it was presented and the government's dealings with the resources sector.
• Dumping the ETS despite describing it as 'the great moral challenge of our generation'. He should have done the deal with Turnbull...
• Breaking his own watered down Government Advertising Rules by using the 'National Emergency' provisions to avoid scrutiny by a body that would avoid partisan advertising. This is in addition to him as opposition leader describing government advertising as 'a cancer on democracy'.

Rudd is damn lucky Abbott is opposition leader. If it was someone else he truly would be in a losing position in the polls, and probably be the first PM since 1933 to only have one term.

Ugh.