Rudd does nothing to calm Howard's propensity for spending our money

I, too, am confused by Rudd. I am one of those for whom Howard is a cur, a deceitful blob of political chicanery, a liar and, aside from the Liberal rubbish that sent us to Vietnam, the worst example of duplicitous behaviour.
But Kevin ... oh dear! I ask: where is the opposition? Since Rudd's accession to the Labor throne, Howard has gone berserk and Rudd and his motley crew have done nothing to calm the old Liberal and to stop Howard's propensity for electioneering with the nation's wealth.
At least Latham stuck it in Howard, ground his point so that we, the electorate, knew where Labor stood.