When you call a meeting of the 'best and brightest' you can expect those that dont get invited to feel like the dumbest and worst.
It's not very Australian, and until now not very ALP to say that some people are better than others. An Aussie might say that people are better at something, but never simply better in terms of human worth. That's something I would do. Difference is that I know it's insulting and Kev doesn't. Kev clearly sees himself as the best and brightest of them all. He is pissing on the people who voted for him from a great height, and he hasn't even noticed.
This meeting is just another commitee. What few new ideas it will produce will be suffocated by the atmosphere of timid herd concensus. Having said that I would not mind going, just to bark some conservative truisms at all the other sheep. Do you think Rudd would regard a heavy metal vocalist and unpublished writer with a lack-lustre background in IT as one of the 'best and brightest'?
Rudd is wasting time, treading water, riding the status quo for as long as it will carry him. Thank god, eh? The less Rudd does the better.
