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
Image source: Pundit Kitchen

honesty, shmonesty

nice segway

Classic Dick Vader
And torture for viewers. Time
For retirement.

Read: Dick Cheney’s Dishonest Speech about Torture, Terror, and Obama; Barack Obama’s National Security Speech

Image source: US News

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

when in the course of texan events

the all alone star state?

Secession, Texas,

Really? Really? That’s just so

1861.

 

 

Read: Texas Governor Says Secession’s Possible

Image source: Texas Secede

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

Image source: Indonesian Election 2009

resident obama

just another day on the job

The leader of the

Free world gets out more than me*.

How mortifying.

 

*Please excuse my poor

Grammar. Sometimes art requires

Small sacrifices.

 

 

Read: Could it Really Be Him? Yeah, Probably

Image source: Red State, Blue State

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

Image source: Irish Blogs

Epidemic

 

In the shadow of

The Capitol, a scourge takes

Its toll on DC.

 

 

Read: D.C. HIV/AIDS Rates Top “Generalized and Severe” Levels

Image source: Delaney Jean’s Photostream (Flickr)

You know its a slow news day…

“President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter. The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.”

Politico, 5 March 2009

 

…When the worst thing they

Say about Obama is

That he reads too well.

 

 

Read: Obama’s Safety Net – The Teleprompter

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

Father’s Little Helper

state secrets

Santa Claus brings gifts
Of Taliban secrets, and
A little blue pill.

 

Read: Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan
Image source: LA Times

Farewell, Professor Huntington

Dr. Samuel Huntington

Civilizations
Clashed, history ended, and
The Professor wrote.
 
America – who
Are we? Like de Tocqueville, he
Gave us an answer.
 
 
Read: Samuel P. Huntington, 81, Political Scientist, Is Dead
Image source: The Boston Globe

A farewell kiss

shoes in a bush. clever!

Lasting legacy

For the President with the

Greatest Reflexes.

 

Read: Bush’s Shoe-Shoot Duck Becomes Internet Sensation!

Watch: YouTube

 

Democracy in action

ninja parliamentarians

Sledgehammers, blockades,

Feisty MPs. Its just a

Day at the office.

Read: South Korea Trade Fight Gets Ugly

The G20 descends on DC

all the king's horses and all the king's men?

Motorcades, traffic

and finance, oh my! Bush plays

host, for one last time.

 

 

Image source: The Economist

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

A simple plan

ground zero

 

A vegan bailout

Bill, no additives. Just a

huge new debt ceiling.

 

3 pages long, but

I’m sure they can find a way

to add in some pork.

 

 

Read: $700 Billion is Sought for Wall Street in Vast Bailout

Image Source: Flickr

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

 

Russian me crazy

the emperors’ old robes

 

No surprises with

Georgia. Putin brays, whispers

Respond from the ranch.

 

When the going gets

tough, its time for vacation.

A good life lesson.

 

 

Read: Russia is Not Jamaica

Image source: Rockford Register Star 

Northern exposure

not precisely geographically accurate

 

The powerful, cook

On new grills, sit on new decks,  

With so far to fall.

 

 

Read: Alaska Senator is Charged with Failing to Disclose Gifts

Seriously?

hands off

 

Move to ban the Pill?

Time for a new pres, or, time

To move to Paris.

 

 

Read: HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

Getting going in Gitmo

detainee graffiti

U.S. v. Hamdan.

Victory for Bush? Just a

Drop in the bucket.

 

 

Read: War Crimes Trial Begins for Guantánamo Detainee

Gimme a C!

feel free to insert your own communist-themed caption here

China! China! Chiiiiiii-

Na! China China China!

Go China! China!

 

 

Read: Western Olympic Ads Cheerlead for China

Honk for China!

 

Take it to the bank

the senator in his short shorts

 

Fifty two million

More cracks. Maybe, this time, the

Glass ceiling will break.

 

 

Read: Barack Obama Raised $52 Million in June

FARC that

 

A brilliant rescue

Mission, hostages freed. Jack

Bauer would be proud.

 

 

Read: 15 Hostages Held by Colombian Rebels are Freed

Breaking news.

Khyber pass, back when it was just a few farmers transporting their poppies

 

Bandits criss-cross the

Khyber, GIs sit and watch.

Superpower stunned.

 

 

Read: Hunt for Al-Qaeda Ineffective

Supremes to DC: Handguns for everyone!

 

 

 

Justice Scalia,
Can you help? I can’t decide:
Glock or Beretta?

 

 

(courtesy of patrick cyrus gilman)

Spam – now environmentally friendly!

dead fish in china wishing bush would just read his email

 

Climate change and cash

From a Nigerian. All

Spam to the White House!

 

Dirty tricks to halt

The Clean Air Act. Anything

Goes at the White House!

 

Read: White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-mail

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

A moment on the trail

Senator Clinton

She slips, pricks herself.
Bobby: small wound, no blood. Still,
eyes in the dark. Wolves!

(courtesy of patrick cyrus gilman)

Read: How Small Stories become Big News

Apartment hunting

 

Capitol Hill

 

Apartment hunting:

More fun than root canals or

a bikini wax.

 

Tired kitchens and

grimy baths. Maybe I’ll take

the wax after all.

Strategery

el jefe

Deficits blossom,
a tree of debtors’ flowers
with no future seeds.

Shrub unites us all
Could never ever divide
Division too hard.

I own senate and
house of reprehensibles
how? strategery!

If all you have is
ignorance and confidence,
then success is sure.

If films fail, we know
not to see the sequel. Why
not so with leaders?

(courtesy of Irregular Times: Haiku page)