"It was a bad mistake to vote Howard in just to get rid of Keating, but it seems that it would be a good thing to get Howard out now, whatever the cost."

So, it looks like John and the Onion have made the same astute observations on the place we find ourselves in the Anglo derived autocracies. Be ye in Aus, UK, US or Canada, our choices are the same--whom to vote against as the lesser of two evils, to make us a feel as if we are doing something constructive to rid the world of even a teensy tiny bit of the roughly equivalent evils.