"Like a fly in the ointment."
"Indeed, but that is politics."
"So now what?"
"He will go back to Multan with his proverbial tail between his legs."
"Why is Gilani's tail proverbial now?"
"I wasn't being facetious - I meant that he did what he was told to do and in the end, he was given his walking papers by the party chairman, evidently during the shortest CEC meeting ever with Gilani saying he is off and President Zardari saying OK."
"Don't forget Gilani wants the President to deliver on the ongoing investigation in cases against his sons. Besides what could the President have said? He has to ensure that the party remains in power and..."
"Agreed, so let this be a lesson to the yes men of this country."
"If saying yes can place me in the history books then I wouldn't mind being in the running."
"Only that person will be in the running who the President considers would have as small a proverbial tail as Gilani."
"That maybe difficult to find don't you think given the end?"
"Hey, for the first time when I crossed Constitution Avenue I met with no one trying to keep the common people away, who incidentally vote and..."
"So you didn't come across any flagged cars or police escorts motioning you to stay back while a dignitary was being whisked away for a breakfast meeting?"
"I did actually, but I guess they were judges."
"I urge the judges to abandon the habit of a life time and instruct their escorts not to misbehave with the public, to wait for traffic lights and to go with the flow so to speak."
"What are you? A jiyala?"
"No, I just think that the PPP angered quite a few of their supporters by insisting on protocol."
"That wasn't Gilani, that was Rehman Malik. Hey, by the way what would he do now? I propose he gets a cart, places apples and bananas in it and makes people guess whether he will eat an apple or banana next."
"Don't be facetious - Gilani was not the decision-maker except in some minor administrative decisions that I admit cost the exchequer."
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