Question Time in the House of Representatives today made headlines for many reasons, but the least of which was this repugnant remark from the Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet.
At approximately 30 minutes into Questions without Notice, Combet likens the Coalition's "concept of the People's Revolt" over Julia Gillard's Carbon Tax, to the U.S. Tea Party movement:
"It's the TEA Party. The far right of US Politics. No ideas. Nothing to say. Nothing to contribute on one of the critical policy issues we face..."
The TEA Party movement is a grassroots movement that could have seen the emergence of a third political party in the United States (had it so decided), and led to an historical midterm election result for the Republican Party in November of 2010. The sentiments of the TEA Party represent a phenomenal proportion of the people of the United States. The concept of a People's Revolt, once touted as the birth of the American independence movement in 1773, has now become a dirty concept for the left in the USA, and now, seemingly, a dirty concept for the Australian Labor Party.
The people are revolting across the Middle East right now, and the left applauds the supposed democracy before even a single vote is cast in a Middle Eastern ballot box. Yet sitting Democrat members and disgruntled Republicans who lost primaries to TEA Party candidates continue to discredit the people who put them into office (see Greta van Sustern's On the Record special on the TEA Party last Friday on Fox News for many firsthand examples). One would have hoped that the ALP would have taken a lesson from the tone-deaf establishment politicians in Washington DC, but sadly, a member of Australian Labor formally continues this trend in the "people's house" this very day.
On the contrary, Tony Abbott (at 53 mins) "submit[s] [him]self to the Australian people" and to our verdict on his credibility and on a carbon tax. We, the Australian people, cordially accept his invitation.
Young Australia's Foundation and our allies, in no uncertain terms, call for the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, to hold a federal election before proceeding any further with a carbon tax and/or ETS and/or a price on carbon, (or whatever non-"semantic" word the PM and her party would like to apply to Labor and the Greens' carbon "price impact.")
We rally all Australians from all political persuasions to join us in a Day Of Rage, as we descend upon Parliament House and Federal Members' offices across the nation in a People's Revolt. We must apply pressure to the Government to drop this unilateral assault on Australia's way of life and cost of living, until we, the Australian people, duly receive the opportunity to exercise our right to decide at the polls.
At last, there is a clear distinction between the "me-too" parties – just the distinction we have been waiting for. We will be heard. We will decide. The power of the people's revolt is real, it works, and so long as professional politicians consider that the people of this nation are not a force to be reckoned with, we will not just go away quietly.
Neither will we be held hostage by a Government that, as Tony Windsor admitted on 8 September 2010, is avoiding going back to the people at all costs because it would likely be thrown out. Such a blatant circumvention of the people and our interests is unethical, and reprehensible. Since that day on which the minority government was formed, the people of Lyne have been held hostage by Rob Oakeshott, the people of New England by Mr Windsor, and now the people of Australia are without doubt being held hostage by the solitary Greens MP, and by this illegitimate minority government and our twice unelected Prime Minister.
Look out for updated posts as we set a date with our alliance partners for our first Day of Rage, and seek to return the power back to the people at the ballot box!
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