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old rattus .....

old rattus .....

 

from the ABC …..

PM 'angry and disappointed' with Santoro

The Prime Minister says his Minister for Ageing, Santo Santoro, had no choice but to resign after failing to disclose dozens of share transactions.

John Howard says he is angry and disappointed Santo Santoro breached disclosure rules in relation to up to 60 share transactions.

"This incident is embarrassing, I don't like and I don't mince words, I don't like it at all," Mr Howard said.

"This is a very annoying thing to me, I'm angry about it and I'm entitled to feel both annoyed and angry."

He says Senator Santoro had no alternative but to quit after inquiries from the Prime Minister's office sparked the latest revelations about his share holdings.

Mr Howard says his Government is not falling apart, despite the resignation of a second minister in a fortnight.

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Gus: not falling apart yet?

See the next one go ... it could be his majesty Rattus himself smelling the wind...

If a few brave people in the Liberal party had the guts to shake the shackles, in whatever form, Rattus has used to enforce his rule...

A courageous act in which the pressure points from the mud slingers in their own party could in one swoop be released to erase a sore point from their old souls killing a secret spirit-consuming guilt despite the possible shame or contradiction - thus "cleaning up" the black slate of a Liberal party that seems to have fallen to the throngs of a few dark henchmen???

I may be wrong... but remember John Brogden replaced by Debman with the "possible" backing of some religious right organisation... "all tip and no iceberg”???

A tip of righteousness on a berg of deceit, more likely.

some people have the gift of the gab...

Gus: Some people have the gift of the gab some are loaded with the curse of the blah blah blah... The dictionary for fools...

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from the ABC

Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has called on the Opposition to end its attacks on Senator Santoro.

Mr Downer says he was surprised by Senator Santoro's decision and it is time for Labor to focus on more substantial issues.

"He's resigned, what more can he do, I mean does the Labor Party want him to go out and do something even worse?" Mr Downer said.

"Leave him alone now, he's resigned, think about him as a human being, I think it's time there was a bit more of that from the Labor Party.

"Santo Santoro is a human being, does he have to be whipped and chastised more and more and more?"

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Gus: so while the vicious dogs of dirty war are unleashed against Rudd by the Liberals, led by the Abbott and Costello comic duo, the Labor party should not bark at Howard about poor Santoro?... And what clumsy lingo, our Minister for aliens and AWB anmesia digs up from a dictionary for fools...

 

santoro apology .....

 

Santoro Apology

Clean Santoro underpants from Comic Pyne Inc.

From the ABC

Santoro cleared over aged care bed licences

The new Minister for Ageing, Christopher Pyne, has cleared predecessor Santo Santoro over claims he allocated aged care beds to a friend's business.

Mr Pyne says a review has found that Senator Santoro did nothing wrong in allocating 94 aged care bed licences to a Liberal Party member and friend Russel Egan Jr.

"We had no reason to believe that anything untoward had occurred with respect to the allocation of beds," he said.

"It entirely exonerates the minister and confirms that the process was utterly above board."

But Mr Pyne says Senator Santoro and Mr Egan were not interviewed as part of the investigation.

Labor's Jan McLucas says it is a sham.

"This review was predictably a whitewash," she said.

Labor maintains an independent review is needed.