Bob Maistros

New item:  Ignoring the controversy about passing major legislation such as tax-cut and unemployment-insurance extensions, billions of dollars of new stimulus, the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law barring gays from serving openly in the military and a far-reaching strategic arms treaty during a lame duck session that followed a complete repudiation by voters, President Obama calls the last few weeks “the most productive post-election period we’ve had in decades.”

(Sung to the tune of “I Get a Kick Out of You,” with apologies to Cole Porter)

How do you spell, "In your face?"

I get no kick from campaigns
The voters’ call doesn’t move me at all
If Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should get stuck
Then I’ll get a kick from lame ducks.

Some get a kick from vote gains
I’m sure that if my agenda should slip
We’d have no quid pro quo from tax cuts.
So I get a kick from lame ducks.

I get a kick ev’rytime
I pass all the bills left before me.
Extend unemployment it’s dear to me
However much you deplore me.

I have no feelings of shame,
Now that we lost there is really no cost
So the New START Treaty really sucks
It still got a kick through lame ducks.

I get a kick even though
We lost Omnibus and my DREAM goal.
The Constitution?  Who gives a hoot?
I had enough votes still to steamroll.

I’m getting onto my plane
Flying up high with my girls to Hawaii
Is my idea of something to do.
Now I’ve had my kick
Yes I’ve had my kick
‘Cause I had my kick
Despite you.

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