A Christmas Story

I’ll be taking a break for a couple of weeks, but while I’m gone, here are some of Doggerelo’s greatest hits, in case you missed them first time around.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011

‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the House

The Republican members were starting to grouse -

The Senate has sent them a bill that’s so bad

They just went beserk it made them so mad.

The Senators wanted the tax cut extended

But couldn’t agree on how to amend it

To pay for the revenue that would be lost

So they said for two months, we’ll cover the cost.

The House said they'd just kicked the can down the road

They told them to get back to work and reload,

Get back to the Senate and come up with a plan

That will last for a year - no more kicking the can.

But the Senate was closed for the holiday,

So Republicans rose up as a body to say

"We won’t let the Senate tell us what to do,

So we shot their bill down, we showed them who's who!'

A lot of folks say that the House has gone mad

That John Boehner's leadership skills are so bad

he can only watch from the sidelines and pray - 

the inmates are running the asylum today.

For the tail wags the dog, it’s abundantly clear

The Tea Party’s running the show this year.

There’s nothing gets done without imprimatur

From the Tea Party priests and desiderata.

The Democrats look at all this with delight

They love to see the Republicans fight.

There's one point that finds the Dems unified:

The GOP’s flirting with mass suicide.

The Democrat’s slogan you’ll see on their posters

“Republicans Raise Taxes on Middle-class Voters!”

The Democrats cackle and cheer in the night,

“Merry Christmas to us from the Republican right”.