senate laureate

Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
What Sonia has done
Is so very impressive
So I am impressed

John Cornyn, R-Texas
We now all agree
Judges channel the Framers
Empathy is toast
 
Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
Guys ‘n’ gals differ
It’s not that one is biased
We just come that way

Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
A prosecutor
Badass on white collar crime
Tough chick. Just like me.

Arlen Specter, D-Pa.
Ethnic pride is good
But this is not me crying
It’s just the chemo

(courtesy of Dahlia Lithwick/Slate!)

 
Read more: 306 Syllables on Sotomayor
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on the campaign trail

most likely he used the random stump speech generator

Vivid responsive
Valued votes worry, arrows
Succeed, prospects set

 

Success fades, humble
Laws aiding faction leaning
Liberal uphill

 

Strictly wishing safe
Conservative Pentagon
Vanishes, unborn

 

 

(courtesy of the Random Stump Speech Synopsis Haiku Generator!)

 

Play: RSSSHG

Image source: Stump Speech, by George Caleb Bingham

Its always election hour, somewhere

big country, enormous ballot

It’s Election Day!

Third largest democracy,

But first in our hearts.

 

 

Read: Elections 2009 The Jakarta Post

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a green president or the greenest president?

also not the president

At the white house, a

New good reader. The crowd laughs,

But someone’s fired….right?

 

 

Read: Podium Pundits – The Luck of the Irish

Read this, too: Speaking Obama with an Irish Lilt

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A Reader, Not a Fighter

my, how all that reading has aged them

Rove speaks only the
Truth. Crichton, Camus, and Condi –
Bush’s dearest friends.
 
 
Read: Bush is a Book Lover

Hair we can believe in

this was just last year

Farrah, Rachel, and

Now Sarah. Enough hairspray

to melt Alaska.

 

Perhaps her biggest

Contribution to the world?

We can only hope.

 

 

Image source: Weird News Files

Read: Sarah Palin Hair How-To

Veep, veep!

better in chalk

Dear Sarah Palin

When Gwen asks you a question

Don’t call her sexist

 

You will just look dumb

On second thought, have at it

It might get a laugh

 

(courtesy of andy michaels!)

 

 

Image source: Tacoma Urbanist

Just a regular ole gal with a gun and her lipstick

ew

She rants and she raves.

Sarcasm drips and puddles

around her high heels.

 

Wealth is bad, power

Is worse, she says to the rich

And the powerful.

 

 

Palinista!

no, not really

For hockey moms and

Faux feminists, a hero

Is on the ticket.

 

Meanwhile, Obama

Dems fear another veep with

A hunting rifle.

 

 

Read: Vice in Go-Go Boots?

Image source: Kodiak Konfidential

Senator Teddy, live from the Pepsi Center

a kennedy for all times

The Dems take Denver.

Ted, on the stage. NBC’s

Got Deal or no Deal.  

 

The Senator sounds

strong. Looks well. Looking forward

to this Novembah.

 

 

Read: Live from Denver

Image source: Wikio

The chosen one

the chosen one

 

Delaware: home to

Tax free shopping, a bridge, and

Now…a future veep!

 

 

Read: Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate

Image source: Barack Obama: Change We Can Believe In

The anticipation mounts

the perfect right-hand man

 

The choice is made!  Who

Is it? No one knows. How ‘bout

Adlai Stevenson?

 

Read: Oh, Come on Already!

Image source: Washington Note

 

A great loss

 

A mourning cry from

all who watched on Sunday morn.

Goodbye, our old friend.

 

The elections won’t

be the same without you and

your red, blue, whiteboard.

 

 

Read: Tragic Loss for Journalism

Farewell

Hillary, at the Museum of Sex

 

Campaign suspended.

Time to mend the rifts, heal the

wounds, and raise some cash.

 

Will it be pricey

To fix eighteen million cracks

In the glass ceiling?

 

Read: Hillary Clinton Bows, Throwing Obama Her Support