In which the pond heads off to petulant Peta and Miranda the Devine for a Sunday fix of commentary follies ...

Though the cunning bromancer had trolled the pond into a Sunday meditation early in the day, the pond was still looking forward to the Sunday Terror's analysis of all the recent fuss ... so imagine the pond's consternation at being confronted by talk of normal motherhood - as opposed to the abnormal motherhood that's all the go these days - and musings about sweaty crotch shots ...

The pond breathed a huge sigh of relief when it clicked through, and there were all the usual suspects ...

It goes without say that it's all the fault of Barners and the Nationals ... the master chef has had nothing to do with it ...

More Moir here, and then it was straight on to petulant Peta, with some guaranteed Malware bashing certain to please ...

Oh that's hardly fair to Malware ... Malware is an expert at putting his mouth where his foot should be ...

The multinodal copper stumble bum has stumbled through any number of matters, so it's hardly surprising the High Court might take a view of the bum trying to tell it what to think ...

Indeed, indeed, Barners has been a good barrel of pork ...

It's likely he'll only have to sing the C and W blues for a short time ...

Sad to say, only two politicians emerged with any integrity from the debacle and they were the greenies who resigned up front, and were mocked by Malware for doing so ... a foolish fop, who then proceeded on to mocking of the High Court...and tried to blame it all on the hapless Solicitor General, done over by the previous occupant of that seat.

What a murky mess of political connivance.

The result? It it seems all too obvious that petulant Peta can hardly wait to return to being chief of staff for the new Liberal party leader of Her Majesty's Opposition in the new federal parliament ...

Of course we can do better, and they'll need to get in a decent supply of the humble Tasmanian brown ...

The onion muncher as the leader of the opposition, ruining any government initiative, and petulant Peta snapping away, and the country will be back on the course that has marked the past decade of politics ...

As for super and fringe benefits and all the rest? Let's hope there's a display of Centrelink compassion...

And so to the Devine for the day ...

Now speaking of desperate thugs, the Devine's hysteria suggests a hopeless case, and a good reason for a liberal dose of the essence of Devine ...

It was an unhappy situation for Cash, being forced to splash on the Devine when she might have been better of joining Barners in humming a tune ...

Never mind, it takes a singular capacity for perversity for someone to wring some sense out of what many conservative commentators - even the likes of the Bolter and little Timmie Bleagh - understood was a disaster for Malware, courtesy of a gigantic Cash cock-up.

Fortunately, when it comes to singular perversity the Devine is loaded to the gills ...

Oh yes, it was a triumph, no doubt about it, a wonderful act of defiance ...

... though some might wonder how the mess happened in the first place.

Of course it helps if you have a singular and unique understanding of the meaning of "independent" ...

Uh huh ... so the cops staged a raid for ten year old documents, when the usual requirement is to keep them for seven, and it's a naked political exercise and ... haven't we been here before, if only via the immortal Pope, with more Pope here ...

The best form of defending the indefensible is to attack somewhere else, and the Devine is an expert in the art of distraction and destruction ...

Now around this point, the pond should just pause to note that both petulant Peta and the Devine featured snaps of Cash that bore an eerie resemblance, and a level of signification worthy of a Sunday meditation ...

So much suffering, so much persecution ... (The Insiders revealed it was a Mike Bowers snap - is his next gig in Rome?)

The pond has every reason to suspect that trade unionists have been involved in many forms of cruel martyrdom over the centuries ...

And so to a final burst of the long-suffering, persecuted Devine ...

Now the pond hasn't spent much time commenting on the Devine, but that's because reader Doug turned up to make a few obvious points ...

Shrill partisan noise?

Well yes, in the end, there's no way to defend the indefensible, whether a Labor or a Liberal or an all-sorts voter. 

Cash fucked up in an unseemly way, and even if she didn't know, she clearly created an appetite for chaos in her staff ...

And for the Devine to dismiss the habit of tipping off the media for a show raid as being "run of the mill" is a shockingly shameless way of endorsing the naked politicisation of the police ...

If it's a raid to gather evidence before it can be hidden, having the media turn up and tip off the unionists isn't a good look. Where the pond disagrees with Doug is that behind closed doors the AFP wasn't too impressed ... because there's every sign that the plods knew what was going to go down, and that's why they bunged on a lavishly over-dressed, over-blown raid of an obviously humbug Hollywood theatrical kind in a quixotic quest for decade-old documents of a minor kind...

And if that's true, it's an even bigger scandal, because Cash and her staff were subverting an exercise which should have been about getting proper evidence in a proper way, not encouraging a media circus by inviting them to the show. 

The result suggests the same behind the scenes shenanigans  as what happened when Richard Nixon committed treason in relation to Vietnam in his bid to get re-elected ...

Maybe not as grand or as cruel and without any deaths of the kind produced by war criminals Nixon and Kissinger ... more just a typical fuck-up of the Malware "Godwin Gretch" kind ...

All up, even if it results in the bizarre spectacle of the pond lining up alongside petulant Peta in her eternal feud with Miranda the Devine, the times seem right for a 'shit hits the fan' summary of the week's events for Malware ...

Roll on a banking royal commission or whatever other mayhem and tomfoolery can be constructed in the few remaining weeks, as the fan hits the shit ...