Green sock puppet!

Piers Ackerman is a very astute observer of politics, in particular his illustrative prowess. I thought I might add a little illustration to this excerpt myself:

"Gillard’s problem is she handed her government over to the Greens and now has little control over its direction whether it’s on coal or cattle.The evidence is compelling. Over a year ago, Brown outlined his cult’s goals as bringing in a carbon tax that would deliver some $10 billion a year from the nation’s 1000 biggest polluters. This would become Labor’s goal, too, until Gillard blinked at the last moment and characteristically irrationally halved the number of big polluters she sought to punish. According to the Hansard of May 13, 2010, Brown even nominated the carbon-tax price of $23 a tonne. Talk about Gillard the Green glove puppet."