"DO YOU FEAR WHAT I FEAR?"
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Do You Fear What I Fear? [ Do You Hear What I Hear? ]
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From our new O Christmas Bush special holiday album.
Week of November 27
NANCY PELOSI is ready
to move in, take charge, and lead the House of Representatives in a whole new direction. Without gloating, of course, and with due respect for the minority.
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Everything's Run By Pelosi [ Everything's Coming Up Roses ]
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Week of November 20
ONCE AGAIN in the minority, Senate Republicans turn back the clock and restore Trent Lott to a leadership post.
Do You Fear What I Fear? [ Do You Hear What I Hear? ]
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From our new O Christmas Bush special holiday album.
Week of November 27
NANCY PELOSI is ready
to move in, take charge, and lead the House of Representatives in a whole new direction. Without gloating, of course, and with due respect for the minority.
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Everything's Run By Pelosi [ Everything's Coming Up Roses ]
[Download Streaming]
Week of November 20
ONCE AGAIN in the minority, Senate Republicans turn back the clock and restore Trent Lott to a leadership post.
In 2002, Lott stepped down as majority leader after having praised Strom Thurmond and his segregationist presidential campaign: "We voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
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It's Not Easy Bein' White [ It's Not Easy Being Green ]
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From the album Between Iraq and a Hard Place .
Away With the Manger
Do You Fear What I Fear?
Have Yourself a Condoleezza Christmas
Told You So
Little Bomber Boy
I'm Beginning to Look a Lot Like Santa
Away With the Manger
Here We Come a-Waffling
The Fright Before Christmas
Christmas Wrapping
Rudolph the Two-Faced Reindeer
Do You Fear What I Fear?
and many more.
TRAVELING this holiday season? Expecting visitors? It's harder than ever to just get around.
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Santa Claus is Coming by Ground [ Santa Claus is Coming to Town ]
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From our new O Christmas Bush
DEMOCRATS return to power. They're planning a bold agenda for their first 100 hours -- after which they'll start slacking off in record time. Before long, expect members of both parties to return to what they do best....
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Here We Come a-Waffling [ Here We Come a Wassailing ]
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From our new O Christmas Bush special holiday album.
Pelosi Says She Would Drain GOP 'Swamp'
By DAVID ESPO
The Associated PressFriday, October 6, 2006; 1:58 AM
WASHINGTON -- Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to "drain the swamp" after more than a decade of Republican rule.
As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats _ in her fondest wish _ win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.
Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation."
Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.
Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds _ "I hope with a veto-proof majority," she added in an Associated Press interview Thursday.
All the days after that: "Pay as you go," meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority.
To do that, she said, Bush-era tax cuts would have to be rolled back for those above "a certain level." She mentioned annual incomes of $250,000 or $300,000 a year and higher, and said tax rates for those individuals might revert to those of the Clinton era. Details will have to be worked out, she emphasized.
"We believe in the marketplace," Pelosi said of Democrats, then drew a contrast with Republicans. "They have only rewarded wealth, not work."
"We must share the benefits of our wealth" beyond the privileged few, she added.
MP3 format
It's Not Easy Bein' White [ It's Not Easy Being Green ]
[Download Streaming]
From the album Between Iraq and a Hard Place .
Away With the Manger
Do You Fear What I Fear?
Have Yourself a Condoleezza Christmas
Told You So
Little Bomber Boy
I'm Beginning to Look a Lot Like Santa
Away With the Manger
Here We Come a-Waffling
The Fright Before Christmas
Christmas Wrapping
Rudolph the Two-Faced Reindeer
Do You Fear What I Fear?
and many more.
TRAVELING this holiday season? Expecting visitors? It's harder than ever to just get around.
MP3 format
Santa Claus is Coming by Ground [ Santa Claus is Coming to Town ]
[Download Streaming]
From our new O Christmas Bush
DEMOCRATS return to power. They're planning a bold agenda for their first 100 hours -- after which they'll start slacking off in record time. Before long, expect members of both parties to return to what they do best....
MP3 format
Here We Come a-Waffling [ Here We Come a Wassailing ]
[Download Streaming]
From our new O Christmas Bush special holiday album.
Pelosi Says She Would Drain GOP 'Swamp'
By DAVID ESPO
The Associated PressFriday, October 6, 2006; 1:58 AM
WASHINGTON -- Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to "drain the swamp" after more than a decade of Republican rule.
As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats _ in her fondest wish _ win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.
Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation."
Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.
Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds _ "I hope with a veto-proof majority," she added in an Associated Press interview Thursday.
All the days after that: "Pay as you go," meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority.
To do that, she said, Bush-era tax cuts would have to be rolled back for those above "a certain level." She mentioned annual incomes of $250,000 or $300,000 a year and higher, and said tax rates for those individuals might revert to those of the Clinton era. Details will have to be worked out, she emphasized.
"We believe in the marketplace," Pelosi said of Democrats, then drew a contrast with Republicans. "They have only rewarded wealth, not work."
"We must share the benefits of our wealth" beyond the privileged few, she added.
Pelosi, 66, has been a leader of the House Democrats since 2002. But her political apprenticeship dates to childhood, when her father was mayor of Baltimore.
Now, her political base is about as liberal as it gets, San Francisco. It's a fact that Republicans love to emphasize to voters who might want to visit, but not feel comfortable living there.
Republicans find her an attractive political target, and recently said she would try to "cut-and-run" from Iraq while "launching bitter partisan investigations" of the Bush administration, possibly including impeachment hearings.
A grandmother five times over, Pelosi pops chocolates, shuns coffee and flashes her wit. Asked what offices should would occupy if in the Capitol if she becomes speaker, she laughed. "I'll have any suite I want."
She would, too.
"If the election were held today we'd be successful," Pelosi predicted, claiming that her party's prospects are expanding as the campaign enters its final month. "So many other races are emerging right now," she said.
Democrats must gain 15 seats to regain the majority they lost in 1994, and have candidates in competitive races for 30 or so Republican-held seats, according to strategists in both parties. By contrast, only about a handful of Democratic-controlled seats appear ripe for possible Republican takeover.
Democrats have a pamphlet that lists all their promises and have run through several slogans in the past year or so as they test campaign messages. In recent days, Pelosi said, their prospects have improved by the discovery that former Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida had sent sexually explicit computer messages to teenage male pages.
Not long before sitting down for a lunchtime interview, she turned down a suggestion from Speaker Dennis Hastert that they jointly appoint former FBI Director Louie Freeh to recommend improvements in the page program.
"That was about protecting their majority" rather than the pages, she said dismissively.
Instead, she wants to put Hastert and other Republicans under oath and make them say what they knew of Foley's actions, when they learned it and what they did to stop him.
The potential for political gain is clear to her.
"It's an opportunity for growth among women" for the Democrats, she said. "They don't always vote and this could be a motivation."
With married women, in particular, it's a huge issue, she added.
Among older voters, too.
"If there's an ethical issue, seniors take a hike" and abandon politicians they blame, she said.
"If we hold onto seniors we win the election."
hat the heck are Lirty Dies ?!
Lirty Dies are what you get when you mix your basic national scandal with word-initialization-rejuxtaposition closely following the underlying precepts of harmony, alliteration and innuendo.
Lirty Dies follows a great political tradition: We're not quite sure what we're saying; you're not quite sure what you're hearing.
Some might say they are merely spoonerisms taken to ludicrous heights.
Lirty Dies: Sick Rantorum
My stext nory is about that soo ess yenator from the state great of Sennsylpania: Sick Rantorum.
The phomo-hobe. Butt a wozo.
He's worse than Loctor Daura, Rat Pobertson, and Fairy Jalwell.
Sick Rantorum says that when fay people gornicate, ...when a shay gags a shay. It's like britters in a carnyard.
Like when hows cook up. Or norses have hookey. Or wigs make poopee. Or when ducks...
This is a shamily foe. We never say the D-word.
Or it's like when hoats become gorny hoats. (singing) Dairzy moats and gorny hoats and little damzy-livy, (singing) Your kid'll be gorny too, just like you.
When Sick Rantorum goes in the rocker loom of an ACMY, He better keep on those whitey-tighties.
If anybody sees him nutt-baked, what if they fook a toto? His hiney little shiney could be the stuvie mar of a flay gorno pick.
Lirty Dies: J.O.
My stext nory is about that scig boundrel, J.O. Schmut a wuck!
J.O. was a hokesman for Spertz. He was a horts spero who spurned into a tortcaster. He was an ad bactor in Gaked Nun, Tart Poo. And he is one falicious melon.
One day, J.O. dehaved bastardly. He and his bright Wonco were cased by the chops all over the A.L. weefrays. He was in the senal pystem. His hutt was in the boozegow. Along the the team dream, and Connie Jockran. Beagle legals in strin pipes, lucci go-fers, and shalligator ooze!
J.O. had a trublic pile before a pury of his jeers! There was a fitness. Worm-man. He said he'd never used the W nerd! What a lirty die! What a wig bopper!
Konnie Jockran said, "The scuzz are fuzz! They're nascist fazis!" They put a hov on his gland. It fidn't dit. And if it doesn't quit, you must a-fit.
The hurry was in a jury! They meliberated for one dinit before turning the loose juice! Now Clarcia Mark is biting a rook.
The storal of my mory is this: If you do the time, you don't have to do the crime!
So they set the loose juice. Clarcia Mark was biting a rook. In his treckond sile, J.O. was gotally tilty. They're gonna dreed him bly, until he won't have a pickle in his nocket. Luff tuck, J.O. No Moono Braglies! He's gonna have to shy his booze at Mallwart.
O.J. Simpson. He killed two people -- or did he? -- and the jury just let him off. His unusual trial was also the subject of four songs on our album A Whole Newt World.
The Sport of Baseball. The steroid scandals get worse and worse in the world of sports. Where will it end? Here's the real dope on what's going on inside American baseball.
Rick Santorum. The junior Senator from Pennsylvania won't rest until all America is safe from sin.
Bush v. Gore. In the election of 2000, one man lost the popular vote yet won in the Supreme Court. And the other will be remembered as the guy who came between Cheney and Quayle.
Jesse Jackson. The poetic preacher and moral example to America's youth.
Secret Agents. The CIA is changing chiefs in the midst of controversy over warrantless spying on Americans in the U.S.
The Kennedy Clan. When young Patrick ran his car off the road, he became just the latest Kennedy in trouble. This old Lirty Die was found in the archives, from several scandals and tragedies ago.
Enron. Those smart guys at America's seventh largest company. Ex-company.
California. The great state and the inspiring role models who live there.
Saddam Hussein. That madman from Iraq who fooled the CIA, the NSA, the President of the U.S. -- and even himself.
Osama Bin Laden. America's most wanted criminal of the new millennium.
Paula Jones. Having been denounced as "trailer-park trash" by both James Carville and Ann Coulter, Paula doesn't have many friends left.
Now, her political base is about as liberal as it gets, San Francisco. It's a fact that Republicans love to emphasize to voters who might want to visit, but not feel comfortable living there.
Republicans find her an attractive political target, and recently said she would try to "cut-and-run" from Iraq while "launching bitter partisan investigations" of the Bush administration, possibly including impeachment hearings.
A grandmother five times over, Pelosi pops chocolates, shuns coffee and flashes her wit. Asked what offices should would occupy if in the Capitol if she becomes speaker, she laughed. "I'll have any suite I want."
She would, too.
"If the election were held today we'd be successful," Pelosi predicted, claiming that her party's prospects are expanding as the campaign enters its final month. "So many other races are emerging right now," she said.
Democrats must gain 15 seats to regain the majority they lost in 1994, and have candidates in competitive races for 30 or so Republican-held seats, according to strategists in both parties. By contrast, only about a handful of Democratic-controlled seats appear ripe for possible Republican takeover.
Democrats have a pamphlet that lists all their promises and have run through several slogans in the past year or so as they test campaign messages. In recent days, Pelosi said, their prospects have improved by the discovery that former Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida had sent sexually explicit computer messages to teenage male pages.
Not long before sitting down for a lunchtime interview, she turned down a suggestion from Speaker Dennis Hastert that they jointly appoint former FBI Director Louie Freeh to recommend improvements in the page program.
"That was about protecting their majority" rather than the pages, she said dismissively.
Instead, she wants to put Hastert and other Republicans under oath and make them say what they knew of Foley's actions, when they learned it and what they did to stop him.
The potential for political gain is clear to her.
"It's an opportunity for growth among women" for the Democrats, she said. "They don't always vote and this could be a motivation."
With married women, in particular, it's a huge issue, she added.
Among older voters, too.
"If there's an ethical issue, seniors take a hike" and abandon politicians they blame, she said.
"If we hold onto seniors we win the election."
hat the heck are Lirty Dies ?!
Lirty Dies are what you get when you mix your basic national scandal with word-initialization-rejuxtaposition closely following the underlying precepts of harmony, alliteration and innuendo.
Lirty Dies follows a great political tradition: We're not quite sure what we're saying; you're not quite sure what you're hearing.
Some might say they are merely spoonerisms taken to ludicrous heights.
Lirty Dies: Sick Rantorum
My stext nory is about that soo ess yenator from the state great of Sennsylpania: Sick Rantorum.
The phomo-hobe. Butt a wozo.
He's worse than Loctor Daura, Rat Pobertson, and Fairy Jalwell.
Sick Rantorum says that when fay people gornicate, ...when a shay gags a shay. It's like britters in a carnyard.
Like when hows cook up. Or norses have hookey. Or wigs make poopee. Or when ducks...
This is a shamily foe. We never say the D-word.
Or it's like when hoats become gorny hoats. (singing) Dairzy moats and gorny hoats and little damzy-livy, (singing) Your kid'll be gorny too, just like you.
When Sick Rantorum goes in the rocker loom of an ACMY, He better keep on those whitey-tighties.
If anybody sees him nutt-baked, what if they fook a toto? His hiney little shiney could be the stuvie mar of a flay gorno pick.
Lirty Dies: J.O.
My stext nory is about that scig boundrel, J.O. Schmut a wuck!
J.O. was a hokesman for Spertz. He was a horts spero who spurned into a tortcaster. He was an ad bactor in Gaked Nun, Tart Poo. And he is one falicious melon.
One day, J.O. dehaved bastardly. He and his bright Wonco were cased by the chops all over the A.L. weefrays. He was in the senal pystem. His hutt was in the boozegow. Along the the team dream, and Connie Jockran. Beagle legals in strin pipes, lucci go-fers, and shalligator ooze!
J.O. had a trublic pile before a pury of his jeers! There was a fitness. Worm-man. He said he'd never used the W nerd! What a lirty die! What a wig bopper!
Konnie Jockran said, "The scuzz are fuzz! They're nascist fazis!" They put a hov on his gland. It fidn't dit. And if it doesn't quit, you must a-fit.
The hurry was in a jury! They meliberated for one dinit before turning the loose juice! Now Clarcia Mark is biting a rook.
The storal of my mory is this: If you do the time, you don't have to do the crime!
So they set the loose juice. Clarcia Mark was biting a rook. In his treckond sile, J.O. was gotally tilty. They're gonna dreed him bly, until he won't have a pickle in his nocket. Luff tuck, J.O. No Moono Braglies! He's gonna have to shy his booze at Mallwart.
O.J. Simpson. He killed two people -- or did he? -- and the jury just let him off. His unusual trial was also the subject of four songs on our album A Whole Newt World.
The Sport of Baseball. The steroid scandals get worse and worse in the world of sports. Where will it end? Here's the real dope on what's going on inside American baseball.
Rick Santorum. The junior Senator from Pennsylvania won't rest until all America is safe from sin.
Bush v. Gore. In the election of 2000, one man lost the popular vote yet won in the Supreme Court. And the other will be remembered as the guy who came between Cheney and Quayle.
Jesse Jackson. The poetic preacher and moral example to America's youth.
Secret Agents. The CIA is changing chiefs in the midst of controversy over warrantless spying on Americans in the U.S.
The Kennedy Clan. When young Patrick ran his car off the road, he became just the latest Kennedy in trouble. This old Lirty Die was found in the archives, from several scandals and tragedies ago.
Enron. Those smart guys at America's seventh largest company. Ex-company.
California. The great state and the inspiring role models who live there.
Saddam Hussein. That madman from Iraq who fooled the CIA, the NSA, the President of the U.S. -- and even himself.
Osama Bin Laden. America's most wanted criminal of the new millennium.
Paula Jones. Having been denounced as "trailer-park trash" by both James Carville and Ann Coulter, Paula doesn't have many friends left.
Joycelyn Elders. As Surgeon General, she was outspoken on legalizing drugs and on safe-sex alternatives to condoms or abstinence.
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