Our Prime Minister Has The Occasional ‘Spack Attack’

It’s always good to learn that the people running this country not only care deeply about the colour of bird seed, but also have the vocabularies of ten year olds circa 1992. Australian politicians, take it away!

Barnaby Joyce reckons Kevin Rudd is a “psycho chook” with peculiar habits, while Mark Arbib admits the prime minister is no Mother Teresa. The two senators’ remarks were typical of federal parliamentarians’ responses to a new poll showing more voters than not think Mr Rudd can turn nasty if he doesn’t get his own way.

Senator Joyce, Nationals leader in the upper house, was unsurprised by the poll’s findings.

“The guy’s a psycho chook,” he said of Mr Rudd. “Who in their right mind gets onto a plane and because he doesn’t get the right colour birdseed has a spack attack?”

Senator Joyce was referring to an incident aboard a RAAF VIP plane in which Mr Rudd reduced a steward to tears.

And then Barnaby started on Kevin Rudd’s hair needs.

“This is a very peculiar man who is leading our country,” he said, referring to claims the prime minister demanded a hair dryer while visiting troops in Afghanistan, and his inability to hang onto staff.

A Labor parlimentary secretary defends Kevin’s hair drying requirements.

Senator Arbib, one of Labor’s parliamentary secretaries, says Australians understand that Mr Rudd is doing what’s needed in the national interest.

This is true. I don’t want our Prime Minister meeting world leaders with damp locks! Those bastards aren’t afraid of mocking bad hair.

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