South Australian Liberal Senator Mary Jo Fisher yesterday cast caution, sense and dignity to the wind with this extraordinary performance in the Senate:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12AKLOJ568[/youtube]
And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Yes, South Australians, this is your Senator on… well, we’re not sure what she’s on. And what the hell was that about bringing the Prime Minister’s knees together?

There are a number of questions the Australian people, and Liberal supporters more specifically, might want to ask about this embarrassing piece of childish vaudeville. Did she run the idea past her party before standing up to do it? Did they ask her to do it? Did she explain she was going to do half-hearted attempts at the Rocky Horror dance moves?

What does it say about our national political media that professional politicians would think it worth sinking so low? Does the Opposition really think that lame stunts like this, stunts that will garner media attention – hey, hey, listen to me! Hey, the Prime Minister’s carbon price makes her like, um, that Libyan dictator that’s in the news! Yeah! – but that make no actual rational argument (other than bleating “Tax bad! Tax bad!”) actually help their case? Rather than, say, turning off potential supporters in embarrassment?

I feel sorry for Mary Jo. I couldn’t help thinking, as I watched that, that here is one person in our national Parliament who seems to be in way, way over her head. Desperately seeking some attention, even if the only way she can get it is utterly humiliating herself.

Still, there’s one thing I’ll never forgive her for: getting that damn song stuck in my head.