Now the ethics committee’s left Rangel
At the end of his rope there to dangle.
It gets really complicated
When your conscience gets sublimated,
And your ethics get all in a tangle.
Originally published March 4, 2010
The Democrats just don’t like change,
Its very prospect makes them deranged.
So following their midterm losses,
It’s ‘meet the new bosses, same as the old bosses’ —
Now don’t you find that passing strange?
Barbara Walters is interviewing the Obamas, they say.
It’s to broadcast on Thanksgiving, plus one day.
Am I just being sensitive?
Are the schedulers conservative?
Or is it just a coincidence it airs on “Black Friday?”
When an ethics panel’s out to destroy ya,
Why waste good money on a lawyer?
‘Cause when you’re Charlie Rangel,
You’ve got to play every angle —
Just walk out, because ethics probes bore ya!
Congress has launched into lame-duck tedium.
They’re grooming the freshmen and feeding ’em.
But one thing’s for certain
In a Congress this partisan —
It’s doubtful they’ll ever reach a happy medium.
I remember back when television sets had knobs,
Back when real journalists could get TV jobs.
But now I’m singin’ the blues
‘Cause all we’ve got is Fox News,
And fat-headed lying windbags like Lou Dobbs.
Marco Rubio plans to be a politician of note.
He knows who rows and who steers the boat.
So to the Tea Party throng
He says a quick, “So long!”
“Oh yeah, and thanks for all the votes!”
What’s with mean ol’ Nancy Pelosi,
Who wants to take it away from Steny?
That’s not the whole story —
There’s not that much glory
In being the leader of the … minority.
With Fox News and the tea-baggers are lovin’ her,
Sarah Palin craves the limelight they’re givin’ her.
But her title don’t fit,
Because remember — she quit!
So I think they should stop calling her “governor.”
In their no man’s land of timid otherness,
Democrats wander, lost in the wilderness.
How they acquit themselves
On the short road to 2012
Will tell whether they’re a real party — or something less.
HT to Trish for that uber-poetic first line.
From Trump’s “stolen election” lies, we can’t get no relief,
He carps on about stolen votes, but he never names the thief.
Somebody needs to tell this guy
Americans aren’t buying his lies,
And that he’s turned us into the United States of Disbelief.
