Hammer, Nail, Coffin...

RBA lifts interest rates.

And the obligatory hospital pass to the next mob:

"Unless there are clear signs that the economy is reacting to this latest rise then we're probably looking at another one early 2008.''

Yeah, nice work better economic managers. There's no way Howard is suggesting he and Costello are the superior team on 'economic management'. There's no way he'd being doing those ones. Oh, wait...

"I'm quite happy to say ... what I indicated in the last election campaign was that I believed that our policies would keep interest rates lower than Labor policies.

"That is still my view."

WtF?