Kevin Rudd is a Toxic Bore

[Aliantha]

according to Tony Abbott, the man who's biggest claim to fame was almost being the father of an ABC cameraman a few years ago.

Dazza and I were talking about this statement last night and started reminiscing about past question times in parliament and he decided to do a search for political quotes from Australian parliamentarians.

My favourite was when Mark Latham called the opposition 'a conga-line of suckholes'.

Here's a few more from here:

On John Howard:

*He's like a lizard on a rock, alive but looking dead
*A desiccated coconut
*What we have got is a dead carcass, swinging in the breeze, but nobody will cut it down to replace him.
*...the brain-damaged Leader of the Opposition...
*But I will never get to the stage of wanting to lead the nation standing in front of the mirror each morning clipping the eyebrows here and clipping the eyebrows there with Janette and the kids: It’s like ‘Spot the eyebrows’.
*From this day onwards, Howard will wear his leadership like a crown of thorns, and in the parliament I’ll do everything to crucify him (speaking of his 1986 leadership)

Howard’s response to a journalist asking a question about Tasmania’s old growth forests:

You tree hugger you.

On Rudd:

I think he's getting a bit full of himself, I mean this is Mr Rudd walking both sides of the street - each way bet Kevin.

Wilson Tuckey:

To Kim Beazley:

A fat so and so

Kim Beazley:

To Wilson Tuckey:

Take your tablets.

Oh these boys do make me laugh! They're really only one step up from the Taiwanese parliament.