You could redo that cartoon Gus and substitute Peter Beattie in place of Simon?

Pete's insistence on a state funeral for the late Qld dictator Joh Bonkers Bananas, has angered the union movement greatly.

Beattie seems caught up in his own little version of the Time Warp dance at the moment (it's just a shimmy to the left...and a jump to the right!)

This one is gold.  I love it.  Good job, Gus.

 

He began the day as a respected party elder and Minister for Regional Australia and the Arts. He ended it a backbencher, sacked by the Prime Minister he had long supported. He had, as it were, been handed his arts on a platter, and Twitter was trending with the cruel hashtag #whippedCrean.

His day's journey was so bizarre that some conspiracy theorists were prepared to imagine that Crean had sacrificed himself in his old friend Julia Gillard's cause as a form of judas goat, a creature that leads sheep to slaughter. Could his purpose really have been to lead Kevin Rudd to the butcher, ensuring Gillard survived?
Absurd, of course. No politician with a heritage like that of Simon Crean, a man who knew personally the misery of being dragged down as a leader because he wasn't fleet-footed enough to avoid it, could discover in himself such dastardly cunning.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/party-elder-lights-fuse-then-gets-blown-away-20130321-2girj.html#ixzz2OChqoY97

The toon above is about Simon Crean, when he was done like a dinner by John Howard on the subjects of unions... Crean still struts politics the old fashioned way... when the media was shall we say less twisted and less nefarious... These days, politics is all about dancing, singing and twittering at a pace that can wear out the best boots... One needs a sharp intellect like Julia Gillard or a cunning rank idiocy like Tony Abbott to survive...

As some people know, you don't stir anything unless you know the result in advance. Rudd "did not have the bottle" to test it because he knew the maths.. Simon was silly to think that he himself had enough elderly respect to pull it off.
Despite what journos may say, prod, analyse and try to prove in the next few days, the amazing thing is that as far as Julia is concerned, it seems that she is as fresh as ever and the whole shamoozle and the bad polls are water on a swan's back... As Rod Steiger would simply say after exploring the values of life: "Well, it's back to work!"...