Video: All She Wants To Do Is Tax
posted at 4:55 pm on April 15, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Better watch this one before Don Henley gets it pulled off of YouTube, and there’s no better day to do it than April 15th. I actually like Henley’s song and the original video, which was explicitly about political cluelessness as well as ironically being a dance favorite for a brief time. The folks at Chuck DeVore for Senate do an admirable job rewriting the lyrics; although the performance may be karaoke-quality, it’s not a primary consideration:
Is it just me, or does Boxer look better than normal in these clips?
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Ed – I’m not sure which is crueler that song stuck in my head or the idea that Boxer looks better than normal.
kybowexar on April 15, 2009 at 4:57 PM
It’s just you.
PBoilermaker on April 15, 2009 at 4:58 PM
That’s no Paul Shanklin satire song!
WashJeff on April 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM
How many six-packs have you downed today?
Mark1971 on April 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM
In comparison to her California Hag Sisters, Pelosi and Feinstein?
Yes.
carbon_footprint on April 15, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Botox and Alli work wonders.
upinak on April 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
I think those headphones are on too tight during your ustream show and effect your vision.
WashJeff on April 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Dude……., please.
Seven Percent Solution on April 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Seriously Allah, you need help. And you need to get out more.
Norwegian on April 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Sorry, I meant Ed.
Norwegian on April 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Any Californian who would vote for this winch deserves every tax they get.
volsense on April 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Someone call Ed’s wife to the blog please. He deserves to sleep in the yard for a week.
lorien1973 on April 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Maybe Ed had his own Long Island Tea Party?
WashJeff on April 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Now, I like this. But to say Boxxxxer looks better, please.
foxone on April 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Heh. Norwegian, while this SOUNDS like an Allah post, the byline is Ed. Besides, why would Allah pine for Boxer? He’s still lying in wait with a baseball bat for blatantblue to come home from his latest date with KP.
Vanceone on April 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
I don’t know if she looks better but she doesn’t look one bit the same as the chick we elected. She’s a blonde!!!! We elected some lady with dark hair. Until I went to link, I thought it was an new Obama appointee.
The best thing that could happen is for Arnold to run against her. Get her out of doing damage and gets him out of Sacramento. He’s a RINO for sure but the only kind of Republican that can get elected to DC in California.
norcalgal on April 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Okay, I see that you fixed it, Norwegian. But my snark still stands!
Vanceone on April 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
She looks better. I can’t look any longer though, there’s not enough eye bleach in the pacific northwest Ed.
portlandon on April 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Where’s MB4 when you need him?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Doesn’t he fly to Sacramento daily? He is going to have to buy a lot of carbon credits to fly to DC daily.
WashJeff on April 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Ed – I think the poll stands at – it is just you!
More results await tabulation.
kybowexar on April 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Are the lefty hags trying to Palin up a bit? They can’t win.
portlandon on April 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
its just you …
joey24007 on April 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Ugly inside = ugly outside
Limerick on April 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM
This is my point about MegMac…
Upstater85 on April 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM
OT:
Red meat
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/governor-says-texans-want-secede-union-probably-wont/
artist on April 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM
I’d smash.
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And here’s another vid [College Humor] to enjoy before Billy Joel takes it down. Content warning.
We Didn’t Start the Flame War
toliver on April 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Boxer does look better — only because the video of her is a bit fuzzy.
rbj on April 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Dude……really?
Sanjoboy on April 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Artist,
I’m a Texan – through and through, but I don’t think it is news that Texans probably won’t try to totally revolt.
I said this yesterday in another thread – I think we should lead the nation to get New York and California kicked out of the Union.
kybowexar on April 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM
I really hope that idea takes off. I’d move there in a heartbeat. The libs would love to see us go. Win/win for everybody, except of course for the libs and people on the dole in Texas.
toliver on April 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Sh*t, he’d be lucky to get the yard!
blatantblue on April 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
I was gonna say. For a seventy year old, she looks spectacular.
radiofreevillage on April 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
You nailed it! They saw a beautiful young accomplished governor take the spotlight and quickly made appts. with plastic surgeons, colorists and for all we know, therapists.
sherry on April 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM
There is not enough spackel in the Free World (Democrat pun – doncha know) to take care of most of them.
Ugly is as ugly does…
kybowexar on April 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Cinderella’s step sisters?
Limerick on April 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM
I hear the Somali Coast Guard is looking for a lobbyist…
Limerick on April 15, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Not just you. I think the ash blonde thing works better for her, shaves a couple of hard warn years off of her and makes her look a little less bitter than usual.
myrenovations on April 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM
I’d hit that!
No, not Boxer, but the girl in the orange that looks kinda’ like Sarah Chalke (Scrubs). Okay, I’d probably do Boxer too, but desperate times result in minimal standards.
gregbert on April 15, 2009 at 5:30 PM
As a woman, I should defend a member of the tribe who is doing the best she can to ward off the aging process, but damn, that spackle thing was funny.
sherry on April 15, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Why not tax more just exactly are the consequences?
Speakup on April 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Great analogy and dead-on correct.
sherry on April 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Thank you for linking Chuck DeVore’s website. I sent him a donation.
RushBaby on April 15, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Sorry, I could get past the- for lack of a better term- music.
Daddy-O on April 15, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Saw this over on Big Hollywood last night, and the thing I can’t stomach is DeVore’s voice. It’s really, really bad to the point of distraction from the central issue.
pcpower1 on April 15, 2009 at 5:42 PM
So in those clips where she’s standing in front of a crowd…
Does Boxer get a foot high platform to stand on or does she surround herself with midgets so she doesn’t have to stare up at everyone?
Kelligan on April 15, 2009 at 5:43 PM
I guess I have never seen her before. I always imagined her as looking more like Nancy Pelosi. In that case, yes, she looks better than normal in these clips.
Glenn Jericho on April 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Beer goggles.
Mason on April 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM
If Texas secedes, how would it defend its southern border without National Guard troops and Border Patrol from the rest of the states?
Of course, if LA and TX seceded together, “Texiana” could join OPEC, and “Drill, Baby, Drill” would look rather attractive in other states if Texiana sold its oil elsewhere than to the Lower 46. Especially if Sarah Palin joined Texianaska.
Food for thought: Texiana would control the port of entry to the entire Mississippi and Missouri and Ohio River basins, or about a third of the country. If the entire Midwest was paying import duties to Texiana, they might change their tune about a lot of issues.
If Gov. Perry is talking about secession, what might Gov. Jindal be thinking right now?
Steve Z on April 15, 2009 at 6:16 PM
What is one to do when your state’s most sane democrat woman in federal office is Feinstein?????
jukin on April 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Wondering if Sen. Boxer looks better than usual is like wondering if Poodle doodoo tastes better than Chihuahua doodoo.
BobMbx on April 15, 2009 at 6:57 PM
I think Ed got Boxer confused with the tax payin’ chick on the couch.
kirkill on April 15, 2009 at 6:58 PM
“although the performance may be karaoke-quality, it’s not a primary consideration”
Bum rap on the singer – I think he did a great job.
Or maybe karaoke singers have improved a lot since I last heard in the bowling alleys of San Diego.
disa on April 15, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Oh hell…call it a river tax. Since the indigeneous people of the lower 46 seem to like taxes, give it to them.
BobMbx on April 15, 2009 at 6:59 PM
I don’t know about better, but in some of those clips Boxer somewhat resembles the chick who played the press secretary on The West Wing.
Sam Sneed on April 15, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Actually, I think she does look a little better than she does in surreal life – I’m thinking the pictures in the video are from a long, long time ago. In fact, from a distance, she looks a little like Diane Keaton. Sorry I said that – I actually like Diane Keaton.
uncivilized on April 15, 2009 at 8:02 PM
You can’t down enough Corona or Canadian XXX to nail that. If you were close, and she opened her yap you would immediately sober up.
ericdijon on April 15, 2009 at 9:20 PM
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Henley, a Texan, has contributed hundreds of thousands of $$$ to Democrat candidates. I saw this vid yesterday and I am surprised that, as of this time, this video is still available?
martywd on April 15, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Come on now, ladies and gentlemen, stop talking about the girl in the orange shirt.
What? There’s only one guy on this blog heterosexual enough to make even a wisecrack? OK, I’ve had it. I’m going to Ace of Spades now.
thebadoutlaw on April 16, 2009 at 2:19 AM
It’s very apparent that the Botox needles have been used on the liberal hags of Washington. Latest pictures of Pelosi was almost unrecognizable.
Highplains on April 16, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Perfect. Let’s tax our way to prosperity.
Mojave Mark on April 16, 2009 at 9:26 AM
She broke my piggy bankk for her pork.
seven on April 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Ed said: “I actually like Henley’s song and the original video…”
No offense, but you’re totally gay.
Again, ‘no offense’.
Kevin M on April 16, 2009 at 8:19 PM