Category: limerick

Ode to Nancy Pelosi. A song, Limerick style.

Since Nancy Pelosi took over the gavel

Was our economy quick to unravel.

She is more than bad,

The worst that we had.

We finally stopped contemplating our navel.

 

Since Nancy Pelosi took over as speaker

Our job situation has gotten much weaker

 All jobs that are lost

Since she got the post

And as for advise, shame to all who still seek her.

 

For Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader

The Chinese exploiters a life-line did feed her

Our debt load increased

Four trillions at least

 We all must this fall go and vote to unseat her.

 

For Nancy Pelosi, known Tea Party hater

 Gets scared when the grandmothers start to berate her

It does go to show

That she doesn’t know

 The Tea Party is one great hate dissipater.

One more versse has been added:

One more verse to “Ode to Nancy Pelosi”

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When Nancy Pelosi again became speaker,

the ravage of time showed it made her much weaker

and how nervous she looked

for her goose is soon cooked.

The Democrats future is looking much bleaker.

 

Obama and Sarah Palin on the same bus. A Limerick.

Our “post-racial” and “post-partisan”  president insists that Republicans sit in the back of the bus: “We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.” The Anointed One apparently went off teleprompter for a few unguarded moments.

The Limerick:

Republicans: Ride in the back of the bus.

So that’s how Obama would like to treat us.

But Sarah, she sparks,

She’s our Rosa Parks.

She’ll take over the bus and not cause any fuss.

Harry Reid and the Tea Party Limerick.

When members of the Tea Party say that pork is federal money wasted to create jobs, then they know little about the realities of what goes on in Washington, Sen. Harry Reid, (D-Nev.) told CNBC Oct 22 2010.

“Whoever suggests that knows nothing about government, zero,” said Reid.

Reid, the Senate majority leader, who is in a tight race against GOP challenger Sharon Angle—a Tea Party favorite—was taking direct aim at the conservative group, which favors a limited role of government.

Between campaign stops in Nevada, Reid told CNBC that billions of dollars were set aside in the economic recovery bill to promote job growth. In Nevada alone, he said, that includes $1.8 billion for construction jobs in renewable energy and $3 billion in bonds to be sold that puts 2,000 people to work. “I’m sorry the economy is as bad as it is. I didn’t cause this economy to go down. I have worked hard to create jobs in Nevada,” Reid went on to say. “I’ve worked hard to save the education system in Nevada, bringing in $400 million to higher education and about $400 million to K through 12.” “They [the Republicans] are going to find—those people who have gone along with that Tea Party stuff—they’re going to find that it’s not their father’s Republican Party,” he said. And post-midterms, Reid had this prediction: “I don’t think you’ll find as many Tea Party members as you might think.” The Limerick:

“The Tea Party knows not how government works”.

We all get along, though we have our quirks.

As long as there’s pork

out which we can fork,

we squander our wealth like a bunch of berserks.

Harry Reid and the worldwide depression Limerick.

 

Oct 2010, Fox News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is having a heck of a time trying to get re-elected, in part, he says, because people don’t want to know that he prevented a worldwide depression. The Nevada Democrat, whose poll numbers are see-sawing against rival Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle, told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz on Thursday night that voters in his state don’t feel reassured when Reid tells them of his global achievement because they’ve fallen so far down the economic food chain. “We were at the top and we’ve fallen very hard. So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn’t give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we’d be in a worldwide depression. They want to know what I’ve done for them, and that’s why it’s important for me, any chance I get, to say that my number one job is to create jobs,” Reid said, blasting Angle for saying it’s not the role of government to create jobs.

The Limerick:

“But for me we would be in a worldwide depression”

said Harry the humble. He gave the impression

his job: Create jobs

for ungrateful slobs.

 And “that woman” against him has recall repression.

Christine O’Donnell and Chris Coons debate. A Limerick.

The Delaware candidates for senate had an interesting debate in 2010. Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell asked the question:  “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” Democratic candidate Chris Coons was quick to tell O’Donnell that religion and government are kept separate by the First Amendment.

Later in the debate, O’Donnell challenged Coons to name the five freedoms of the First Amendment. He came up four freedoms short.

The five freedoms in the first amendment are: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the rights of petition and assembly.

The exact text of the first amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Limerick:

Amendment, the first: We all know, of a sort.

Chris Coons, when she asked, came up four freedoms short.

O’Donnell did know

All five, and did show:

“Church and State” is not mentioned; she is a good sport.

Obama on Abraham Lincoln: A Limerick.

Excerpt from President Obama and First Lady Ohio Reception Speech October 2010 :

In the words of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, who’d have a great deal of trouble getting a nomination in the Republican Party right now. (Laughter.) You know that’s true. (Laughter.) He said that government should leave to the people – let them do what they can do best for themselves.

The Limerick:

Of Abraham Lincoln, Republican first

Obama did mention, it was not rehearsed.

He was making the case:

In these tea party  days

He would be rejected, scorned and accursed.

The Chamber of Commerce and President Obama: A Limerick.

White House senior adviser David Axelrod to US Chamber of Commerce: What Are You Hiding That You Don’t Want the American People to See?

AXELROD: Well I’m not demonizing the Chamber of Commerce. I’m simply suggesting to them that they disclose the source of the $75 million that they are spending in campaigns and put to rest, put to rest the questions that have been, that have been raised.

TAPPER: Isn’t that like the whackjobs that tell the president he needs to show them his full long-form birth certificate so he can put to rest the questions that have been raised?

AXELROD: The president’s birth certificate has been available to people.

TAPPER: The long form?

AXELROD: Someone once in the course of this debate about whether we should have a law to force these organizations to disclose where they’re money is coming from in the campaigns, someone said, and I think they’re right – “the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide.” If the Chamber doesn’t have anything to hide about these contributions, and I take them at their word that they don’t, then why not disclose? Why not let people see where their money is coming from? -Jake Tapper: ABC Senior White House Correspondent.

The Limerick:

The Chamber of Commerce must open their books

to certify truthfully they are no crooks.

Well now, Mr. President;

Uncertified resident:

No longer we trust you just on your looks.

The Lanthanides Lamentation Limerick:

China’s Ban on Selling Rare Earth Minerals to Japan Continues, Officials Say

By KEITH BRADSHER and EDWARD WONG New York Times Published: October 10, 2010

HONG KONG — Chinese customs officials continued to bar all exports of rare earth minerals to Japan over the weekend, industry officials said, but the Chinese government showed signs of taking a more conciliatory stance toward Japan. …

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China told European political and business leaders Wednesday that China had not imposed any bans on exports of industrial minerals for political purposes and that it did not intend to stop exports in the future. Rare earths are used in the manufacture of hybrid gasoline-electric cars, computer screens, large wind turbines and many other applications.

Mr. Wen made his remarks in a speech at a China-European Union business meeting in Brussels. Chinese officials have consistently taken the position that they have not imposed any regulations preventing rare earth exports; any such regulations could be easily challenged at the World Trade Organization. …

Throughout the halt on exports of rare earth minerals, China has allowed continued exports of manufactured products that use rare earths, like powerful magnets, and highly purified rare earth metals. Japan is the largest importer of rare earth minerals and ores. Companies there use the material to make a wide range of high- technology products and have been reluctant to import manufactured goods from China instead.

Even before questions arose over the exports to Japan in late September, China had been putting tighter caps on rare earth exports for the last five years. When the export halt was imposed, the quota for 2010 was within a month and a half of being exhausted. But shipments could continue into November if customs officials allow a resumption soon. Edward Wong reported from Beijing and Keith Bradsher from Hong Kong.

Note: China mines 97% of the world’s rare earth metals.

The Lanthanides Lamentation Limerick:

What is “Rare Earth Metals”, and who gives a hoot?

They’re all mined in China with prices to boot.

We closed our own mines

with lawsuits and fines.

We need them for green jobs:  No freedom to toot.