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Hinch on the Liberal Party woes
When the talk started swirling out of Canberra this week that Malcolm Turnbull could face a leadership challenge it was easy to dismiss it. Especially when the name Kevin Andrews was mentioned as a possible replacement.
I mean, if Kevin Andrews is the answer then what the hell is the question?
But things did get serious during and after yesterday's marathon party room brawl over the ETS. You could ignore the blustering threats of the Neanderthal from the west, Wilson Tuckey.
But things took a sudden serious turn when Andrew Robb turned on his leader. After all, he was the Coalition's negotiator with Penny Wong before illness took him to the backbench and Ian McFarlane jumped into bed with her – figuratively speaking.
For the embattled Climate Change warrior Turnbull it was a telling case of: Et tu, Brutus.
Things got worse when Turnbull wore Caesar's toga to his late night press conference. He claimed a party room victory. Despite the numbers against him. It was like the time a horse voted in the Roman Senate.
And Caesar-like Turnbull said: "I am the leader. I have made the call."
He said it many times. My way or the highway. The problem was there were more than enough disgruntled backbenchers keen to show him the highway. And not just over the ETS.
It’s weird that the same things that would make Turnbull a leader also undermined him. His self-confidence, arrogance, intelligence and unswerving belief in his personal road map.
Not only does Turnbull not tolerate fools lightly. He doesn’t tolerate anybody lightly. He has always chastened at the parliamentary rules and rituals –which is not necessarily a bad thing.
But he lost the leadership the first time around to the hapless Brendan Nelson because he couldn't stop tell everybody what he planned to do when he got the job – before he got the job. His lack of political nous showed.
It showed again yesterday. I don't doubt his sincerity on climate change. But Turnbull should have swallowed his pride. Heeded the party room opposition. Postponed approving any ETS until after Copenhagen. And regrouped.
Instead he said: "I am the leader. I made the call."
What was it Gough Whitlam said? "Crash or crash through?"
