Please feel free to help yourself to that humble pie. It's gooood....

I watched possibly one of the best episodes of Four Corners I had ever seen last night.
Last night, for the first time, I saw senior Howard Government ministers talk honestly (well, as close as we're goign to get anyway) for the first time.
Gone was the smug arrogance, hindsight was now 20/20 and they actually more or less admitted that they got it wrong.

It was stunning.

It was like a massive bit of closure after a particularly bad break up.

Gone was Costello's smug grin, and even Downer was a bit more subdued than normal - though ever the diplomat.

But Tony Abbott just proved that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
He found it so hard to admit they got it wrong, unlike Andrew Robb, who said that "by definition, they had underestimated Kevin Rudd" - because he won.

No, Tony Abbott said that while he didn't think ratifying Kyoto would have "saved our bacon" he considered that "the public" (words he almost spat out) "the voting public might have found it a bit curious."
The implication was that he still thought they were doing the right thing - but it was the "voting public" that had misinterpreted the Liberal Party's best intentions.

Well fuck you, Tony Abbott. Enjoy the political wilderness.