Rush Says He's Sorry

Rush Limbaugh issued kind of an apology for his vituperative attacks on Sandra Fluke, a law student who testified before a Congressional Committee on birth control issues. He said, “… I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.”  Words like “slut” and “prostitute”, which he apparently didn’t mean to be a personal attack.  Shows you how detached from reality an obese drug addict can be…oops, I didn’t mean that to be a personal attack.

I wish I could take my words back

It wasn’t a personal attack

But I used the word “slut”

I should keep my mouth shut

‘Cause now some sponsors I lack.

Don't Scratch That Itch!

The Wilmington, DE, City Council just passed a resolution calling on state legislatures and the U.S. Congress to grant eggs and sperm “personhood” status.  The resolution was put forth as a protest against recent attempts to limit access of women to insured birth control.  Get the whole story, as well as the hilarious “Every Sperm is Sacred” (by Monty Python) here. 

Sperms and eggs are people, too

That’s what the Council just put through

So watch it guys, when you’re relaxin’

Be careful not to wax your Jackson.  

The GOP's Jeremiah Wright Moment

For background, see Sonnet for Sandra below.  

Rush Limbaugh called her a slut

Although she was anything but

So how did the candidates feel

About his outrageous spiel?

Well, Rick said that it was “absurd”

It was just an “entertainer's” word.

And as for candidate Newt

He’s been uncharacteristically mute.

What about good Dr. Paul?

Not a word about Rush Limbaugh

Though he said that, really

The birth control issue was “silly”.

And how about front runner Mitt?

What was his take on this bit?

“Not language I would have used”

He seemed a little bemused.

Now Rush has got lots of clout

So folks fear to call him out

But in this instance outrage calls

Whassa matter, guys, cat got your balls?

Sonnet for Sandra

Sandra Fluke, a law student at Georgetown University, was not permitted to testify before Darrell Issa’s committee investigating government intrusion into religious freedom, an issue that has focused on the issue of insurance-provided birth control.  In her testimony, presented at a hearing called by Nancy Pelosi, she stated that the absence of free birth control would pose a financial hardship to female students. The right, in the form of Rush Limbaugh and Craig Bannister, responded by calling her a “sex-crazed coed” and “a slut…a prostitute”, among other epithets.  These guys are a disgrace to whatever profession they claim to be representing.   

A female student of the law had asked

To testify to Issa’s group who sought

To bring out reasons why Obama ought

To change the regulations he had passed.

But to the student they said “Not so fast!

We want no women here.”  And so she brought

Her view that contraception costs a lot

To Ms. Pelosi’s meeting at long last.

The right wing pundits now respond with names

More fit for locker rooms than for debate.

They called her “sex-crazed”, “prostitute” and “slut”

They’re not a bit ashamed that this defames

A young and thoughtful woman. They create

Malignant hate with their destructive smut.

It's not Easy Being Algae

Republicans (Newt Gingrich, Mitch McConnell, Rush Limbaugh, Charles Krauthammer) have ridiculed President Obama’s statement the other day that algae, grown in the USA, might be an excellent source of biofuels.   This seems more than a little cynical since other Republicans (Mike Pence, Darrell Issa, Mike Johanns) have previously been enthusiastic supporters of algae biotechnology as an alternate fuel source.

It’s not easy being green

We don’t get enough respect

We provide a fuel that’s clean,

Environmentally correct.

We little cells can grow real fast

All we need is good sunlight.

But here’s a fact some can’t get past:

We’re green – it don’t seem right.

And yet we can produce the oil

To fuel our country’s trucks and cars

The environment we won’t despoil

No oil spills or yucky tars.

While growing we fix CO₂

And generate O₂ as well

All of this is good for you

And our atmospheric shell.

But it’s not easy being green

The GOP deplores us

But this was not to be foreseen

‘Cause they were once all for us. 

Olympia Snowe

The moderate Republican Senator from Maine, Olympia J. Snowe, announced that she will not be seeking a fourth term. Among the reasons she gave in a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, was the “dysfunction and political polarization” in the Senate.  

Republican Olympia Snowe

Won’t seek re-election, you know

Bipartisanship’s dead

It’s alleged that she said.

She should have switched parties a long time ago

Romney on Global Warming

Mitt Romney's various positions on global warming are described here.

The earth is warming up, said he,

He also thought that we might be

At fault to some extent -

That we too much augment

The CO₂ in th’atmosphere.

But he said that way back last year

And now he’s come to doubt

If any person knows about

The reasons for our climate change.

So now he finds it very strange

That anyone would think it’s true

That we must spew less CO_2.