{"id":132,"date":"2007-07-17T18:42:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T22:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/07\/17\/yet-another-filibuster-song-parody-the-full-a-bluster-song\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T05:39:07","slug":"yet-another-filibuster-song-parody-the-full-a-bluster-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/07\/17\/yet-another-filibuster-song-parody-the-full-a-bluster-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Filibuster Song Parody (The Full-a-Bluster Song)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when the Republican majority flipped out at the mere whisper of the word filibuster<\/em>? Remember when GOPers led by Bill Frist, Mitch McConnell, and Trent Lott threatened the “nuclear option” if Democrats had the audacity to filibuster any of George Bush’s extremist judicial nominees?<\/a><\/p>\n

Those were heady days back then, when Republicans would scream “Up or down vote!” and decry Democrats as “obstructionists,” and the media would obediently parrot their condemnations. Oh yes … and the Democrats caved and failed to filibuster, giving us a whole slew of rightwingnut federal judges who will haunt us for many decades to come.<\/p>\n

Well now that the Republicans are the minority party they just love the filibuster and have conveniently forgotten that they ever condemned it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Back when filibusters were “bad,” I wrote a filibuster song parody<\/a> to the French-Canadian children’s song Alouette.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Somehow it seems like a good time for a new set of lyrics to the same tune:<\/p>\n

The Full-a-Bluster Song
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

“Filibuster.
\nBan the filibuster!”
\nAncient bluster
\nfrom the GOP.<\/p>\n

With a Dem majority
\nRepublicans think differently:
\n“Great device!
\nAin’t it nice.
\nBlocks Dem bills!
\nThey’re all on ice.”<\/p>\n

Oh…<\/p>\n

Filibuster
\nSuddenly has luster.
\nGrand Old Party’s
\nHack Hypocrisy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(You can find more of my political song parodies here.<\/a>)[tags]Filibuster, GOP Hypocrisy, Trent Lott, Mitch McConnell, Bill Frist, Song Parody, Republicans, Iraq War, Nuclear Option, Up Or Down Vote, Obstructionism, Judicial Nominees[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when the Republican majority flipped out at the mere whisper of the word filibuster? Remember when GOPers led by Bill Frist, Mitch McConnell, and Trent Lott threatened the “nuclear option” if Democrats had the audacity to filibuster any of George Bush’s extremist judicial nominees? Those were heady days back then, when Republicans would scream […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25,89,38,20,19,11,3,9,12,4,60,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-constitution-humor","category-filibuster-humor","category-foreign-policy","category-gop-humor","category-iraq-war","category-legislation","category-politics","category-republicans","category-senate","category-song-parodies","category-trent-lott","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}