Storm clouds are approaching for The Barometer.

Joel Fitzgibbon. A jovial, affable kind of guy. A good bloke. But a savvy politician? Well, the proof (or lack thereof) is in the HoR members' interest register pudding.

Proof you say? A bottle of 40% overproof please.

Even before the 2 x free stuff for kids members scandal, Joel had the world's worst poker face. Lady GaGa would turn in her grave if she was dead.

When Ruddski lands the proverbial punch during Question Time, Fitzy - in full eyeshot over KRudd's right shoulder - smirks openly after a brief two seconds of holding in his chortle. On the other hand, if Turnbull twists the knife in tight, Joel practically curls up in the foetal position and starts to rock back and forth. Hence his nickname - as coined by the late and oh-I-miss-you-so-much-and-things-are-not-the-same-reading-the-Oz-without-The-Sketch, Matt Price - The Barometer:

Change is a-coming for the man in the seat of Hunter

He's certainly offered oodles of colour and movement of late - except, unfortunately for him, the colour is Chinese blood-red, the movement upside down and backwards through the NIB expense account.

Happy Birthday Helen - oh whooooooaaaaaaaa oh whooooooooooaaaaaa

And

Brotherly love gone too far.

A slap on the wrist for the first time. But for the second error? I don't think Rudd's 'not happy Joel' is going to cut it. It's only a matter of time before Julie Bishop or some other Liberal dope finds out about the 3rd, 4th or nth transgression.

I think it's time that The Barometer started packing his bag. I think if he walks out the door of his own volition he will save what's left of his pretty little poker face.

And it's a shame. He has come a long way (baby). He has wiped his hands kinda clean of being the evil bastard that helped put the boot to Kim 'no ticker' Beazley to let then BFF Mark 'ease the squeeze' Latham to take the Labor mantle in 2003. And he even managed to avoid the avalanche as Latham's house of cards came tumbling down in early 2005.

Oh well. Next!