Curse the minor parties

This mornings Sydney Morning Herald frontpage has the last word on the minor parties. There is a picture of the new shooters party MP (NSW Legislative Council) kneeling nextto the elephant that he has just (legally no doubt) shot. What a man. There's also an extract from an letter that he sent to Eddie Obeid and Nathan Rees expressing (in the language of a dopey agro Year 5 boy) how pissed off he is that Labor have failed to eliver on all his demands. Like writing off the $2million that the "Game Council" owe the state treasury and then giving them another $3million a yearon top of that. like letting these mrorns loose with guns in every national park including Kosciusko and Barrington Tops where the most abundant specied of game would be bush walkers.
The facts now are that in Macquarie Street for the next four years if Barry O'Farrell wants to get anyhing through that Labor and the Greens oppose he is going to have to deal with these people. Here's an opportunity for NSW Labor to redeem itself. They could say to Barry O'Farrell that he does not have to deal with the shooters and the christian democrate and their like. They could undertake to pass his legislationafter appropriate scrutiny. They could take the moral high ground. What have they got to lose.
They won't of course. As Bill Clinton famously said of Arafat "the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."