Yes, I suspect a lot of Labor MPs would cross the floor if they were given even half a chance to object to an Emissions Trading Scheme.

As it is, I have been told the Democratic Labor Party must have nominations of candidates in for a State election here in Queensland by the end of March 2011.

It seems clear that despite her protests of innocence, Anna Bligh intends to swim out of the flood waters and crawl back into our hearts, before we have had an opportunity to recover from the shock of massive devastation and loss, or to regroup both our common sense and emotions.

There are stories going around that if Anna had started dumping water from the Wivenhoe Dam a day or so earlier, the flooding of Brisbane might have been avoided. By the time of the first release, the dam was at over 200% capacity. Some people say she hoped to sell all of that water to farmers, graziers and urban ratepayers for quite a tidy sum.

When I saw Anna on TV a couple of nights ago, it seemed clear that Labor strategists had feminised her appearance with alluring clothing, a comprehensive diet and exercise program, a fresh hairdo and a pretty pink blush on her cheeks.

Added to this, her voice dripped with oxytocin (female bonding hormones) and she appeared to have received a skinful of Botox.

If not, a master craftsman had been hired to trowel Spakfilla into the cracks.

Well, we really have to hand it to Anna Bligh this time, don't we?

While everyone else has been counting the cost of losses during to the flood disaster (and by now, impatiently HOPING for their share of the donated moneys), Anna Bligh has been doing a photo shoot for the Women's Weekly.

I turned on the TV and received another very rude shock from these neo-communist women the Labor Party keeps trotting out.

Julia Gillard has now broken her pre-election promise NOT to bring in a carbon tax, with Bob Brown standing right behind her.

If you live in a Labor or Greens held seat, please start firing off letters and emails to let your MPs know we all expect them to cross the floor and vote with the Coalition on this exceedingly BLACK tax.

When the DLP's Senator Elect, John Madigan, finally gets into the parliament on 1 July 2011, he will probably need support from Barnaby, while 9 Green Senators try to give him a nervous breakdown!

The stories about Wivenhoe Dam releases when over 200% are rubbish. No dam will hold a flood. Only smooth out some of the surges of high tides and inflows from other sources. Wivenhoe had its own capacity flowing into every couple days. The designers of that dam deserve huge credit.
I was expecting to see Captain Bligh coordinating the NZ catastrophe. We did get Julia for an extended time which seemed to be trying to milk the situation just as happened in Qld.
However, it would be good to see more crossing of the floor. I wonder what would be different now had politicians represented the people and not their party line.

Paul:

I don't know where you get your "facts", but I can tell you that somebody on the National Seniors of Australia's blog reiterated (at length) the details of the engineer's report on the Wivenhoe Dam.

By the time water was finally released by Commandant Bligh, it was holding more than 200% of its recommended capacity. From memory, this was even reported in the news.

Remember the Wivenhoe was originally built as a Flood Mitigation Dam, not as a Storer of Liquid Gold, or a Deliberate Creator of Devastating Catastrophe.

The real reason Anna was crying and looking terribly frightened on TV was probably because she knew she was going to have to flood Brisbane. In her bid to help a large corporation rob us all of THE MIGHTY DOLLAR on a "commodity" which used to fall FREE FROM THE SKY, she had overshot the time frame for safely releasing the water.

According to a report in The Australian, Anna has been engaged in "woman made" acts of Climate Change since 2007, with her attempts at cloud seeding.

Have you ever wondered how a wall of water could power through Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley in such an unprecedented manner? If not, perhaps you might consider the likely effects of a MASSIVE CLOUD SEEDING attempt.

More recently, Anna decided to release more flood waters over a period of 9 days, which she said would flood College's Crossing.

Would there be something wrong with releasing it over a LONGER PERIOD of time, thereby avoiding ANY further flooding at all? Go figure .........

It seems to me that common sense has deserted our State and our nation in recent times, in favour of corporate greed, to say nothing of gross government stupidity and accompanying financial profligacy.

I would like to challenge ALL Politicians to ALWAYS put the Interests of the People and the Country before the Interest of themselves and/or the Party !