If This Were Written by a Liberal…
Would people think it so clever?
I have some heartburn over this poem (the original is no longer available via Dr. Sanity’s link). I work in DC, with Congress people and their staffs. This sort of bigoted (no other word for such blatant prejudice) condemnation of all the “Hired fools, hired crooks, hired liars, hired scum” is just a bit too much for me.
Should we condemn all psychiatrists for those arrogant, egotistical, or actually criminal shrinks who wreak more havoc than they repair? Or how about all those lawyers? We know what they’re all like.
I don’t like to read this kind of sloppy, lazy thinking by people I’ve come to admire for most of their writing.
Maybe it’s just those damned conservative blogospherians…
Oh, and if you DID do away with Congress and the other afflictions of Washington, you’d just reinvent it under a different name at a different location.
Dr. Sanity: FOR POETRY LOVERS AND CONGRESS HATERS
FOR POETRY LOVERS AND CONGRESS HATERS This just has to be shared. It is by The Corner’s John Derbyshire and he has, I think, captured in the rapture of his poetry (style and meter stolen from elsewhere, but what the hey! ) captured the essence of all rational people’s perspective on today’s Congress. Here is a short bit:
Come, friendly bombs, fall on D.C.!
It’s not fit for humanity.
There’s nothing there but villainy.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs, and blow to kingdom come
Those pillared halls of tedium
Hired fools, hired crooks, hired liars, hired scum,
Hired words, hired breath.
Mess up this mess they call a town
A seat for twenty million down
And rights to the incumbent’s crown
For twenty years. …
And smash his desk of polished oak
(Paid for by honest working folk
Toiling ‘neath taxation’s yoke)
And make him yell.
Definitely make him (or her) yell.
