This is by Paul Kelly but picked up from Andrew Bolt

The terrible truth is unfolding. Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan have left Rudd with a budget that allows no room to move… Rudd inherits a long-term fiscal situation with huge commitments on the disability scheme and school funding, a three-year ‘return to surplus deadline and no scope for new spending pledges.

The original intent was to sandbag Tony Abbott with fiscal commitments and budget deficits that would give him little room to move but has apparently now done in Kevin Rudd instead. The pleasure this would give Julia must be intense.

The problems that Labor has left behind are massive. Kevin’s role in their creation and his inability to solve a single one will soon enough be evident across Australia. It is not just the leader but the ethos and policy structure of the Labor Party that is the problem for which there is only a single solution that will make sense.

From Catallaxy 6 July 2013.