Hell, even your sleepy old toad, Bleeding Edge, predicted, way back on September 27, that what with the Prime Minister's fistful of dollars campaign, we had the makings of of a new and diverting parlour game, in which the idea is "to pick which of the Government's promises he'll renege on after the election, and how long it will take".

We solicited suggestions then for which of the Howard offerings would be the first to go, or to be watered down. And we speculated that when interest rates blew out, what he'd say was, "You'd have been worse off under Latham?" It looks like C.J. one the first round, what with his comment that "My bet is Medicare as he has a stated hatred of universal health care and has already cut deeply into it. But won't it be Costello who has to sort out the mess The Man of Steel leaves should (heaven forbid) the tories buy and cheat their way back into power?"

We've got a new idea for a parlour game, by the way. Let's nominate how long it will take, this time, for those dyed-in-the-wool Liberal voters to forget that their incredibly responsible financial manager - the one who spent $20 million of our money telling us how great the Medibank safety net was - is an outright liar. We should send him to his room for two years.