The best political exchange of the week came from a couple of grizzlies in Parliament's bear pit and the tubby Gerry Brownlee started and finished it.

He set the ball rolling after being none too Happy with a Treasury report criticising the Christchurch rebuild, describing the pen pushers as Dopey. So the Snow White themed insults began with Grant Robertson chiding the Minister asking him whether that made him Grumpy and the Finance Minister Bill English Sleepy.

Not being a Bashful type, Brownlee fired back that given Robertson's performance in his portfolio area, he was most certainly Dozy, even though he'd just, it seems, invented an eighth dwarf meaning he fell well short of being a Doc.

The exchange left Sneezy out in the cold, although the young Act leader David Seymour sounded as though he had a runny nose when he had a swipe at the cops this week for executing a search warrant on my Wellington apartment looking for a sample of my wife's hand writing. They could have saved themselves a trip from Auckland if they'd simply asked her for an autograph and that led Seymour to conclude they'd been watching too many movies.

Given the gentle nature of the raid though, more Mary Poppins than Rambo, it's perhaps time Seymour upgraded to grown up movies, providing he takes his ID into the video store that is.

But at least it wasn't the worst example of a response during the week. That came from the Detective Senior Sergeant who was on his hands and knees in my lounge, rifling through a receipt drawer looking for those handwriting samples.

He wanted one as they attempt to prove a case against my wife for exploiting a loophole in the law by buying a gun by mail order just to show how easy it was to do. They immediately closed the loophole which would tend to suggest the law was an ass.

The officer was asked whether they'd have gone to the same lengths if a person had forged a cheque and spent the proceeds. He didn't seem Happy as he came back with the classic textbook police response: "No comment."

The whole exercise was just plain Dopey, just as it would be to prosecute an offence for an action that could potentially make the country safer.

Ask the gun obsessed Americans today whether they're happy with their country being awash with firearms!