A rough week in parliament does not mean surrender

Whether it was the airline food, or thoughts about life on a kibbutz that affected Andrew Bolt on his return to Australia, I know not; but this tosh is not worthy of him:

Malcolm Turnbull has been destroyed after relying on explosive claims contained in a fake email sent to Godwin Grech, a Treasury official who has apparently been a long-time leaker to the Liberal Party.

'Destroyed'? I'm sorry - I thought Turnbull was still the Leader of the Opposition.

Malcolm Turnbull was on the receiving end of the blow-torch in parliament last week precisely because he confronted Rudd and Swan with some very serious issues, and they didn't like it. So they returned fire. Rudd was particularly incandescent - probably the first display of anger the public has seen from him. They should get used to it.

Turnbull finally put Rudd and that incompetent fool Swan under the microscope. My only question is: what took him so long?

Tony Abbott got it right when he said that people needed to take a cold shower over this Utegate matter - a cold shower which should extend to writers and journos intent on using hyperbolical language - unless they wish the general public to see them as favouring one side; or else desperately wanting someone to fall or to challenge for the leadership, simply to satisfy their relentless desire for the sport of politics, whatever the outcome.

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