{"id":3964,"date":"2010-10-26T03:48:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T07:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2010-10-26T04:02:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T08:02:15","slug":"election-2010-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/10\/26\/election-2010-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha-Political Verse: Election 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every so often I sum up a period in alpha-political verse. For instance, I did one about the opening months of the Obama administration<\/a>. I also did two about the Bush administration, one a not-so-fond farewell to Bush and Cheney<\/a> and the other a satirical summary of their disastrous first term.<\/a> <\/p>\n

This mid-term election period has been so bizarre, that I couldn’t resist doing another one:<\/p>\n

Alpha-Political Verse: Election 2010
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

A is for Alaska, whose incumbent needs good spelling.<\/p>\n

B is for Barack. The GOP sure wants his dwelling.<\/p>\n

C is for Christine<\/a> who’s anti-gay and masturbation.<\/p>\n

D’s for Delaware debates, where laughter ain’t ovation.<\/p>\n

E is for elections. Dems lose bad — so say the seers.<\/p>\n

F’s for foreign cash galore supporting GOPers.<\/p>\n

G is for Glenn Beck<\/a> and all the crazy stuff he says.<\/p>\n

H is for Sec. Hillary. Too bad that gal ain’t Prez.<\/p>\n

I’s for Darrell Issa<\/a> who is itching to impeach.<\/p>\n

J is for John Boehner — smells majority in reach.<\/p>\n

K is for Ken Mehlman who is fin’ly out as gay.<\/p>\n

L’s for Libertarians who, like Rand<\/a>, to regs say “Nay!”<\/p>\n

M is for Joe Miller — seems he doesn’t like the press.<\/p>\n

N’s for Speaker Nancy P. Her House is sure a mess.<\/p>\n

O’s For Bill O’Reilly<\/a> versus Joy and Whoopi. Wow!<\/p>\n

P’s for Paladino<\/a>. Angry bully? Yes, and how!<\/p>\n

Q’s for all the questions the extremists won’t address.<\/p>\n

R’s for Reid’s tough Angle<\/a> bout. I’m worried, I confess.<\/p>\n

S is for Mike Steele<\/a> who claims to run the RNC.<\/p>\n

T is for the Tenthers and their anti-fed law spree.<\/p>\n

U is for our Union which secessionists<\/a> would flee.<\/p>\n

V is for the voters drinking Kool-Aid-flavored tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

W’s for the many wars we’re fighting — can’t keep track.<\/p>\n

X is for the xenophobic anti-“other” pack.<\/p>\n

Y is for the youth. We really need them at the polls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Z’s for right-wing zealots<\/a>. We must squash their ugly goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every so often I sum up a period in alpha-political verse. For instance, I did one about the opening months of the Obama administration. I also did two about the Bush administration, one a not-so-fond farewell to Bush and Cheney and the other a satirical summary of their disastrous first term. This mid-term election period […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,15,21,20,14,154,6,7,3,90,9,12,610],"tags":[192,194,1382,2763,348,1246,2784],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-congress","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-house","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-polls","category-republicans","category-senate","category-voting-satire","tag-campaign-satire","tag-election-humor","tag-extremist-candidates","tag-gop-humor","tag-obama-verse","tag-voting-limerick","tag-wingnuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","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=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}