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Doggerel for September 2002...
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9/26/2002
(LINK)
At last, cause for hope! First Al Gore, and then
Tom Daschle, deliver gutsy speeches certain to warm
a Democrat's heart... and prove that Daschle has
at last found the balls
(thanks to Mad Kane for the ref)
to reply to Bush's implied accusations of unpatriotic
indifference by the Senate to American security concerns.
Daschle is absolutely right: Bush owes each and every
Democrat an apology for impugning their patriotism,
obviously for crass political purposes. Daschle's content
and delivery were both just right: at long last, he lost
his temper, at exactly the moment it counted most. And now
I'm losing mine. As for Bush, I think he was a bit surprised.
Get used to it, Dub, you're going to see a whole lot
more of it from Dems! And if you tell me I'm unpatriotic,
or don't care about American security, well,
I hope you rot in hell!
Fair warning: I've spent a lot of time lately being
rational, constructing carefully reasoned arguments why
Bush's policies, especially regarding Iraq, are just plain
bad ideas for American national security. No more. My
patriotism has been challenged by a "president" who did not
even allow the counting of votes to be completed. I may be a
sprout-eater, but right now I have an appetite for Gore.
Screw rationality; this is not rational material. This has been
building up for a long time, and Daschle and Gore
have finally unleashed it (and of course, since it's really
rude, it has to be in limericks)...
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A Daschle Hot Pepper;
A Bit of Blood, Guts & Gore |
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Some Democrats finally broke free;
I'm cheering their anger, with glee!
This GOP trash 'll
Be faced with Tom Daschle...
And, sooner or later, with me!
Those 'publicans think they're so smart?
Have mastered political art?
Well, give 'em Al Gore;
They'll see what's in store...
Together, we'll take 'em apart!
By wrapping themselves in the flag,
They're more patriotic, they brag?
Well, kick in their scrotum!
It's OUT we will vote 'em!
We're sending 'em home in a bag!
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Steve
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9/17/2002
(LINK)
This one speaks for itself...
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| Constitution Day Doggerel |
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Though our great Constitution's not yet at an end,
This gnawing suspicion yet lingers:
That when Dub took that oath to uphold and defend,
He must have been crossing his fingers.
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Steve
Bates |
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9/11/2002
(LINK)
September 11 is the birthday of someone
I've grown to like and respect a great deal. What a difficult
day it must be for her; I can sympathize, having myself been
born on the third anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
But there's no getting around it: for most of us,
there's just one event that comes to mind when we
hear the words...
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| September 11 |
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September 11... I'm practically mute;
There's nothing here humorous, clever or cute,
For doggerelists, there's no punchline, no hook,
No thing, but a world irrevocably shook,
No humor, just horror; no partisan peeve,
Just thousands more dead, for whom all of us grieve;
No balm for the feeling that all of us have,
Much outrage, much sorrow, but nowhere much salve.
September 11... reflecting the pall
Of partisan tragedy, searing us all,
The death of democracy, aided by one:
A madman, a zealot, a fortunate son,
No liberty left for the sad and the sane;
More death, from one killer, maniacal brain.
Yes, shocking, yes, ghastly, a million more dead...
How great is the guilt that is heaped on his head!
September 11... Mars, bringer of war,
Goads those who are hellbent to even the score.
So... "why do they hate us?" it's obvious, no?
It's Rumsfeld, it's Cheney, preparing the blow,
'Gainst those who attacked us? No! those we defy!
'Gainst those who fear missile defense in the sky,
Landmines, global warming, Dub's deforestations,
What else have we wrought, we, once greatest of nations?
September 11... the grief, and the flags,
The bodies of patriots, brought home in bags,
The loss of our freedoms, the rain of the bombs,
Good God, I implore You... no more Vietnams!
How can we recover the land of the free,
The home of the brave we were destined to be?
From dictators, save us good women and men...
From terror without... and from terror within.
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Steve
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[In memoriam, Billie Carr, the great liberal spirit of Texas,
who died 9/9/2002. I don't know if Billie would have approved
of the content of this poem, but I know she would have delighted
in the passionate liberal spirit behind it. - SB]
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9/5/2002
(LINK)
Bush's federal court nominee, Priscilla Owen,
a Texas judge whose radical personal opinions
frequently and obviously influenced her decisions,
didn't make it out of committee in the Senate today.
The vote was 10-9, along party lines, against reporting
out her nomination. The GOP is outraged... outraged!
Well, gosh. How terrible for them. Of course, no Republican
ever did that to any of Clinton's far more moderate judicial nominees,
who were "borked" with great regularity throughout both of
Clinton's terms. (An aside: ask yourself... was Bork borked,
or was he an anti-constitutional radical who should never have
been nominated in the first place?) Anyway, that old sauce is for
goose and gander alike, and some of us are cheering that the
Senate Dems are showing some spine. Here's the story of
Dub's radical nominee, Owen, whom one might call...
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| Bork from Dork |
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Long before the days of Nixon,
Borking nominees goes way back:
GOP axed Clinton's picks, 'n'
I would say it's time for payback!
Partisan behavior showin'?
No... Dems just have one less owin'!
Pack the bench with wingnuts? Le's see...
Dems say, no way, not so prissy!
Finally, things may get messy...
Daschle? after all, NOT sissy!
Confidence in Dems is growin';
Payback's sweet; that's one less Owen.
Nutcase zealots find that they can't
Fill the bench with right-wing jurists.
Senate Dems! Leave benches vacant,
Give no nod to scofflaw purists!
Keep those winds of change a-blowin':
Soon we'll see a Lott less Owen!
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Steve
Bates |
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