The obsession with attacking Abbott hinders their own ability to sell the carbon tax.
But of course it's not that easy to sell something you plainly promised you wouldn't do, so that leaves only the second best option in their narrow minds to follow - attack Abbott.
Labor are currently sailing a sinking boat and refusing try and bail out the incoming water from the hole they punched in the hull, instead all are up on the top deck screaming hot air at Abbott as he sails past.
The situation they are in is of their own deceitful making ... to pretend otherwise is another attempted deceit.
