It's a good thing

I am not teaching grammar at the moment as on reflection I have forgotten the rules. Auxiliary verb and verb to be taking same case before and after the verb, having is the gerund, thus - "Tony's having been standing" -therefore what follows, suspended participle etc. Forgotten it all.
My mate Rb and I were watching the soccer this morning and I was saying I hope that dreadful little big noting man PM Howard doesn't do his normal thing and come out and claim credit for the Socceroos' getting into the Round of Sixteen. The bloke is shameless for what he does not claim credit for. The Olympic Games, Cricket, Rugby. He is from the evangelical tradition which does not kneel to pray. But you watch at any public church service - as for a State Funeral - he will kneel and clasp his hands. Only if there are TV cameras there of course. And if he can show up his political opponents as non kneelers. The kneelers are generally Roman Catholics and High Anglicans. Howard's background is Methodist. He kneels because he knows the mainly atheist aussie while turned off by religion generally respects a devout believer - provided they don't earbash them. So Howards gets brownie points: that nice Mr Howard. See, he kneels to pray not like those others. He's just like us - he loves his cricket too. What a nice man.