KRudd, "not the brightest bulb". LOL, page-224

When someone is in trouble refer to something bipartisan.

Problem being is that US funding for submarine building has just fallen. What has Krudd achieved in lobbying support of AUKUS? Even Krudd's mate Turnbull thinks he is doing a bad job. You can't have it both ways.

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, whose plan to buy French submarines was scrapped by his successor in favour of AUKUS, said on Wednesday the U.S. was unlikely to make its own deficit worse by sending submarines to Australia.