Your future in the hands of these ferals Absolutely pathetic. So juvenile, so feral - yet these screeching, squabbling and backbiting attention-junkies, with Labor and the Greens, are deciding which reforms to our finances may pass and which, more often, are blocked: CLIVE PALMER, PUP LEADER: Oh, well, it's a very, very sad situation for Jacqui. She's been removed as Deputy Leader and Deputy Whip of our party and she's been suspended from attending further parliamentary party meetings until she can get her life back together. JACQUI LAMBIE: I understand that he's under pressure because of bad political decisions and legal action that's been taken against him. However, that doesn't give him the right to spread hurtful rumours about me in an effort to intimidate. [REPORTER]: That earned another comeback from Mr Palmer, who issued a press release accusing Senator Lambie of "lying to the Senate" and "planning to set up an alternate political party." The Abbott Government's job just got a whole lot harder, not least because Lambie is saying she'll vote against everything until the Government doubles it pay increase to the defence forces. The Government cannot now make deals with Clive Palmer that win it four of the six Senate votes it needs to overcome a Labor/Greens Senate bloc. JACQUI Lambie will consider her political future at the weekend after an attack in parliament yesterday against Clive Palmer, saying he was trying to "intimidate" her because of his poor political decisions and legal battles... In a further sign of dysfunction within the PUP, Mr Palmer said Senator Lambie needed to "see a doctor" and was talking "fantasy." "She needs to go and see a doctor as soon as she can because I think her behaviour is irrational," Mr Palmer said... Early yesterday, PUP senator Zhenya Wang ... asked Senator Lambie for "written agreement" to the party's ultimatums, but the Tasmanian PUP has refused and is seeking legal advice about the letter and party's personal attacks. She will discuss her future in Tasmania at the weekend, asking her family, friends and electorate what action they believe she should take. Niki Savva says if, if, if: Hysterics aside, Government insiders fear Jacqui Lambie has struck a chord on defence force pay. She has Clive Palmer by the short and curlies, probably Abbott too now. She should accept the offer of help from crossbenchers Bob Day and David Leyonhjelm. Day says while her tactics are awry, her strategy is right, so if they can tutor her in the sweet art of compromise, everybody, except Palmer, could benefit. Mark Kenny: Who's running this ramshackle show we call the Australian Senate? Is it the PUPs as we had thought or is it the COCS [coalition of common sense], who have just insinuated themselves into its arcane workings? (T) he answer will take some time to emerge... Lambie's tenure as a PUP member looks to be over already... PUP's clout has taken a hit. It may regroup but it is already damaged and unlikely to regain its intimidatory strength. In all likelihood, it will now represent just three votes at best: Glenn Lazarus and Zhenya "Dio" Wang, as formal PUP members and Muir, if he decides to stay close. But even then, his departure on [financial advice reforms, reversing his vote,] has made a repeat more likely on other issues. For him, that's where the power lies. Ms Lambie is more of a loose cannon. Her vote is now anyone's guess. For the government this might mean some bills are easier to get through, but it will probably find itself ceding ground on multiple fronts simultaneously as it horse-trades on a bill-by-bill basis. While its GP co-payment and higher education changes were already blocked, the partial re-atomisation of Senate crossbench numbers presents an opportunity, if a diabolical one. The danger is that whatever the Government does get through is so highly compromised - and comes with so many trade-offs - that the country suffers.