COMMENT Desperate people resort to desperate measures. Desperate ailments require desperate remedies.

But what could be the antidote for the ‘Blame Anwar' psychosis presently afflicting Umno and its media cohort?

Barely can a thing come dramatically unstuck or go disastrously wrong than the blame for it is placed at the Pakatan Rakyat supremo's door.

Things have gotten to the stage where the reflexive faulting of Anwar for whatever is misbegotten in Malaysia has become a sick joke.

Anwar must feel like the humourist Groucho Marx who said of a book he had received: "From the moment I received your book till I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it."

An Anwar reworking of this quip: "From the moment I heard my adversaries' accusations against me, I was suffused with laughter. Some day I intend to reply to them."