It might be time to move on from bitching and moaning about the Worst Government Ever, to pondering the possibility that we're also living in the golden age of the Worst Opposition Ever. Some of the worserer newspapers with the dumberest readers made jolly sport a few weeks ago when the Daeshi bandits of ISIS hacked their way into public awareness, solemnly intoning the reliable old chestnut about evil only requiring that good men do nothing before it can get its extra sparkly disco pants on.

But what about the Worst Government Ever? What does it need to boogie oogie oogie until it simply cannot boogie no more?

The answer's simple. The tin-hearted, morally bankrupt ALP of the modern era. That's all. These sad little small targets and preachers of me-tooism are so terror-struck by Abbott's macho posturing that they've gone possum in the middle of the road. This clown of a Prime Minister has made a bonfire of your freedoms that would warm the black hearts of the maddest beards in Berserkistan and all the Labor Party has done in response is encouraged him with wet farts from the sidelines.

Charge off into another Middle East war without defining the conditions for victory, or even, our eventual shame-faced withdrawal?

Sure. The ALP can support that.