{"id":492,"date":"2008-05-05T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T06:27:38","slug":"costa-iemma-monday-morning-dickheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Costa &#038; Iemma: Monday morning dickheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/treasurers-obscene-outburst-at-unions\/2008\/05\/04\/1209839457247.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1\">Costa&#8217;s obscene outburst at unions<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong> <\/em> <em>Andrew West and Andrew Clennell<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>May 5, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MICHAEL COSTA stormed across the room &#8211; his face flushed, his hands clenched &#8211; towards John Robertson, the secretary of Unions NSW. &#8220;You blokes can get f&#8212;ed,&#8221; he screamed. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to look like dickheads on Monday morning.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the end Mr Costa took to the stage on Saturday. His arms were flailing, his voice rising. On ABC TV yesterday it was referred to as a &#8220;Mussolini-like&#8221; performance. The vote went 702 votes to 107 against him.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/costa_mussolini.jpg\" title=\"no similarities at all!\" alt=\"no similarities at all!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leave it to those pinko commies at the ABC to draw such a ridiculous and unrealistic comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Who does Iemma think he is? Making unilateral decisions against the best interests and will of the people is King George II&#8217;s job.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do you sack a premier in Australia?<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costa&#8217;s obscene outburst at unions Andrew West and Andrew Clennell May 5, 2008 MICHAEL COSTA stormed across the room &#8211; his face flushed, his hands clenched &#8211; towards John Robertson, the secretary of Unions NSW. &#8220;You blokes can get f&#8212;ed,&#8221; he screamed. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to look like dickheads on Monday morning.&#8221; [&#8230;] In the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}