Numbskulls without a helluva lotta nous...

So the NZ Labour Party couldn't exercise enough self-restraint and states(wo)manship to rise above the(ir) usual petty partisanship and party political oneup(wo)manship for just one (parliamentary sitting) day yesterday. Apart from the undoubted respect such would have earned them from their fellow kiwis...on the very day that the NZ Parliament duly recognized, in a truly bipartisan fashion, both its Afghani casualties and its triumphant Olympians, in a series of successive heartfelt tributes...no sooner had these finished than it was back to its/the usual  round of tit for tat interchanges with its National Government counterparts...and without even any of the 'rare, reasonable and (much less) witty' interjections so beloved of its own one-time Deputy Speaker and M.P. Geoff Braybrooke... . Was it wholly beyond the wit & the wisdom of any of its 34 MPs to actually propose to the Government that they (parliamentarians) conclude their proceedings  early in a spirit of rare bipartisanship befitting the occasion? No, as I suggest elsewhere, such dreams are ever free. Shame on y'all, and what a pity, what a great opportunity squandered...