You want political dirty tricks? Just get 'em drunk.

[Wat_Tyler]

(from a history of the New Zealand parliament)
http://www.mch.govt.nz/history/making-history/house-review.html

Many well-known MPs have clearly drunk too much alcohol, including one of Parliament’s longest-serving and best-known Speakers, Maurice O’Rorke. Julius Vogel missed a crucial vote on a motion to separate the North and South Islands into two separate colonies while ‘drunk and asleep’. The alcoholic Jerningham Wakefield was locked in a committee room without liquor to keep him sober enough to vote – but the opposing whip climbed onto the roof and lowered a bottle of whisky down the chimney. By the time the division was called, Wakefield was ‘paralytic’ under the table. Some years later another MP, John Joyce, was also locked in a room by a government whip and plied with alcohol to make him incapable of voting.

Among more recent incidents involving excessive alcohol consumption, one in January 1958 is both entertaining and might well have had political significance. After Robert Macfarlane, about whom Martin is quite uncomplimentary, had been made Speaker, Opposition leader Holyoake took charge of the Speaker’s liquor cabinet and ‘began pouring generous drinks’. One Labour MP passed out, removing the new government’s one-seat majority during the debate on its £100 tax rebate. Fortunately several National MPs were similarly incapacitated, although Labour still nearly lost the first vote when Warren Freer, who was in the shower, failed to hear the division bells.

An early Speaker, David Monro, on one occasion had the clock put back to delay the rising of the House, which would have prevented the third reading of a government bill designed to facilitate the alienation of Maori land.

Henry Sewell, whose journals proved ‘an indispensable source for the formative years of the House’, once tried to manhandle an opponent, James Mackay, out of the chamber. Mackay defended himself with ‘his trusty umbrella’ and finally escaped by climbing over the rail into the strangers’ gallery. Some years later, Vincent Pyke threatened Seddon with his walking stick but struck another MP by accident before being hauled – still shouting – out into the lobby.

[terrya]

1. That's not a huge problem for the dumbass in the White House.

Getting him drunk, that is.

[Wat_Tyler]

2. 'before being hauled – still shouting – out into the lobby.'

There's hope yet!