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Abbott must have been telling a porky. The coalition and their rabid right wing supporters have lost it. Fortunately we were warned about this. Julia Gillard is in for a hard time from Abbott's litter of pitbulls. They're very well trained, although not in Howard's domestic style.
We didn't see these tantrums from Labor during the Howard years.
The Coalition has gone feral.
Just weeks after their leader, Tony Abbott, pledged a "kinder, gentler polity" as he sought to woo the independents, his senior troops came out all guns blazing today, attacking the legitimacy of Julia Gillard's administration.
Liberal Senator George Brandis told ABC Radio the Labor government had "as much legitimacy as the Pakistani cricket team".
His colleague, Christopher Pyne, the opposition's manager of business in the House of Representatives, said the alliance between Labor, Greens MP Adam Bandt and independents Andrew Wilkie, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, was like "putting the mongoose and the cobra together".
Mr Pyne singled out Mr Windsor and Mr Oakeshott - whose support tipped Labor into office - saying their decision offended commonsense.
"What went wrong yesterday is that common sense didn't prevail ... it defied commonsense," Mr Pyne told the ABC.
He ridiculed Ms Gillard's suggestion of letting "the sun shine in" to illuminate political proceedings, saying he wanted to continue to put the spotlight on what had been a bad government.
"This will not be a Parliament where all of its history is turned on its head and we all sit around smoking a peace pipe singing Kumbayah," he said.
Prominent Nationals Senator Ron Boswell also took a swipe at Mr Windsor, claiming his decision could be seen as "payback" for years of enmity towards his former party.
At his press conference yesterday, Mr Abbott vowed to hold Labor "ferociously to account" in opposition.
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