The Two Dicks, an Ode to Tea Parties
Dick Armey and Dick Cheney
Laid a towel along the shore
They each took handfuls of figurines
and placed them on the floor
The two Dicks arranged them in a merry pretty manner
On either side two toothpicks stretched a painted canvas banner
Dick Armey used a sable brush to paint the banner white
Dick Cheney sneered that Mission Accomplished wasn't right
And so with enamel polish of the brightest red
Dick Armey scrawled Tea Party and Cheney unveiled the bread
He broke off a piece and rubbed it in his hands
then sprinkled all the crumbs across the surrounding sands
The Two Dicks compared collections
which they brought from their house
Cheney's were all Yankee north
Armey's were rebel south
Cheney brought Limbaugh with a headset and cigar
along with blue and yellow pills
in a miniature glass jar
Armey brought Newt Gingrich along with his three wives
There were other ladie dollies present that all the righties prized
There was Coulter, there was Ingraham,
There was Palin and Malkin
But all Dick Armey brought was Kay Bailey Hutchison
The dolls were all assembled in varied pretty poses
The two Dicks acted out the part of Aaron and Moses
They lamented and protested ACORN and the poor
who through perfidy and laziness laid more taxes at their door
ACORN and the poor elected a black muslim
to pay for their mortgages with Euro socalism
They're all crooks and swindlers and minorities besides
who want to drown the whites in debt's rising tide
The dollies and the bread crumbs atrracted a small group
Of pelicans with Ron Paul signs wearing hats that said POOP
A flock of seagulls landed in white pointed hoods
And bearded crab bank financiers shouted "Greed is Good!"
Holy rolling oysters spread collection plates
To bring the donations back to parishioners in red states
There were birthers along with PUMAs, objectivists and truthers,
Libertarians secessionists and Bill O'Reilly's loofa
The two Dicks toasted to their marvelous achievement
The trap they laid had worked as they precisely conceived it
They each drew shotguns and fired them away
The two Dicks bagged enough grub to last until election day.
THE END













Is it just me or is that Civony ad a little... weird? I am reminded of those old Japanese made dirty computer card games where you played Go Fish until a softcore pixelated geisha appeared with bits of "satin" covering up her naughty bits.
Between the erecting buildings, the scantily clad female whose face is cut in half, and the use of "My Lord" in a web advertisement, I feel dirty.
April 15, 2009 4:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's just you.
April 16, 2009 8:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Two by Three Dicks, No Tea
An army or a chainy
Seem repressive both
The one I miss is DickDay
‘Cause he never ceases growth!
And when the night comes calling
And I’m sitting all alone
The company that I prefer
Is one who takes me home…
April 15, 2009 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your limerick is way better than my doggerel. I both bow and scrape.
April 15, 2009 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I loved your ode! And humor is contagious. Just having fun playing off of yours…
I really wonder why these guys still get away with all this double-talk for the birds. And people still eat it up. Thanks for the GREAT poem and I hearby award you the Daily Award (well somebody’s got to do it and I’m not really qualified, but!) for:
WOW! Thanks so much!
April 15, 2009 6:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I had to mention POOP hats. The tin ear of the current astroturf conservatism is most evident there... who in their right mind (forgive the pun) would wear a hat that says POOP?! AS A FORM OF PROTEST?!
April 15, 2009 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rounds of applause, for Zipperupus and Stratofrog. Bravo!
April 15, 2009 9:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it just me, or did these protests get more air time then the numerous larger protests of similar interstate significance? I am curious to know how many are estimated to have attended across the nation and then compare it to say the Million Man March. It just seems to me we had much larger numbers during Bush that went woefully underreported.
April 16, 2009 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Pretty good Zip
Two Dicks do not a Boner make.
WHAT WHAT WHAT
April 16, 2009 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink