I tried my hand — not always so successfully — at writing some satirical Christmas carols based on 2008 events. Here is a sample:
To the tune of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”
I saw Sebelius kissing up to Barack Obama
On the campaign trail throughout this year.
Yet she didn’t hear a peep,
About the Cabinet or being veep.
So now she’s stuck in Topeka with those legislative creeps.
To the tune of “The Wassail Song”
Here we come a-shopping
For Sarah Palin clothes.
Here we go a-wandering
In stores to and fro.
Off to Saks Fifth Avenue
And to Neiman Marcus, too.
And we’ll buy her and send her a snazzy wardrobe
So that she can appeal to Average Joes.
To the tune of “Let it Snow”
Though the district’s needs are frightful,
Anti-bond groups are rather spiteful.
So as long as schools want more dough,
They’ll vote no,
They’ll vote no,
They’ll vote no.
Comedian-turned-politician Al Franken has a slim lead in the never-ending recount of the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota. As of Monday, Franken was ahead of Republican incumbent Norm Coleman by 48 votes out of about 2.9 million votes cast. But the Coleman campaign claims that election officials double-counted more than 100 ballots, and about 1,600 absentee ballots that were mistakenly rejected must still be counted.
The new year apparently will bring another quixotic attempt to repeal the law allowing some qualifying children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at state universities and colleges. Rep. Lance Kinzer (in photo), R-Olathe, and some other conservative lawmakers plan to take another charge at the 2004 law next session despite the fact that past efforts to repeal it have failed. Or that costly court challenges to the law have failed. Or that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius would veto any repeal that happened to make it out of the Legislature. Or that the state universities support the law. Or that law benefits the state’s economic development efforts. The only encouraging news is that Kinzer and others don’t plan to revive — at least not next year — this past session’s failed attempt to turn employers into immigration police.
At least one business is thriving during this global economic downturn. Turkish shoemaker Ramazan Baydan, who claims that his company designed and produced the shoe that the Iraqi journalist threw at President Bush, says he is swamped with orders and had to hire 100 extra workers. “People are calling from all over the world to order this shoe I designed a decade ago,” he told Forbes.com. “We have so far 370,000 new orders from Europe, the Middle East and the United States compared to only 40,000 orders of this particular model in December last year.” Baydan has renamed the model the “Bush shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush.”
To the tune of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”
