Video: ‘Twas the night before Democrats destroyed American health care
posted at 8:30 pm on December 22, 2009 by Allahpundit
Imagine: For one brief shining moment, this guy was the right’s best chance after Nelson to derail ObamaCare. Then he caved and now he’s interesting mainly for his ability to rhyme “Senate” with “in it.” I wonder if he realized while he was reciting this that it’s probably what he’ll end up being best known for.
Worth posting if only because it gives me an excuse to link Moe Lane’s version.
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I can’t watch him. This whole thing is depressing. It seems they have made this bill almost impossible to get rid of. It just sucks.
Brat4life on December 22, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Jack-ass rapster.
leftnomore on December 22, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Our tax dollars at work folks.
Meric1837 on December 22, 2009 at 8:33 PM
This POS should be in prison instead of the senate.
OmahaConservative on December 22, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Ba ba black sheep
Have you any wool?
SouthernGent on December 22, 2009 at 8:35 PM
I would like to apologize to all my fellow HA comrades for the trash that comes out of Crook County Illinois.
Knucklehead on December 22, 2009 at 8:36 PM
It’s sad where there are many of our congressmen and senators should be in jail and not making laws. He’s not the only one that should be in jail.
Brat4life on December 22, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I think I have a Burris under my saddle.
GnuBreed on December 22, 2009 at 8:37 PM
He knows it’s great but has never seen it. Yeesh.
ronsfi on December 22, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Love it! You real americans will be getting Obamacare for Christmas! It’s not enough to defeat you, best to rub your noses in it for good measure!
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 8:37 PM
When my brother got a paperweight from my dad at Christmas, he took it to his college physics lab, mounted it on a precision lathe, and blew it to atoms.
That’s just about the way I feel with this a$$hat.
Such a small, petty, ignorant man, with the fate of millions in his hands, has the nerve to sing this little piece of doggerel pap on the eve of one of the most corrupt, destructive legislative acts ever pereptrated on the American people. And he does it — laughingly — on Christmas eve.
He’s laughing at us. And why not? We have given the country over into the hands of gibbering idots.
GTR640 on December 22, 2009 at 8:38 PM
That’s why we made the bill effective in 2014!
BadgerHawk on December 22, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Can we re-gift him back to Illinois?
Beaglemom on December 22, 2009 at 8:40 PM
I’m betting you’ve never voted for this retarded, corrupt piece of shit in your life. No apologies. Crook County stands as a beacon to all Americans, clearly lighting the way from our tradition political values to the cesspool that can be, if only we continue to elect liberals.
Jaibones on December 22, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Senators who are already in office are going to get voted in for slowing down ObamaCare.
This guy is an idiot.
BadgerHawk on December 22, 2009 at 8:42 PM
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Ignorance really is bliss, The proof is in your posts.
SHARPTOOTH on December 22, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Eat your heart out Al Gore.
cubachi on December 22, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Except there’s no public plan.
What a moron.
BadgerHawk on December 22, 2009 at 8:44 PM
NO!!!! But maybe a challenge in the Festivus Feats of Strength is in order.
Knucklehead on December 22, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Fcuk you. Cnut. Eat the sh!t from your own Depend® diaper.
OmahaConservative on December 22, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Why is he not in jail? Both he and Blago should be in federal prison.
Enoxo on December 22, 2009 at 8:47 PM
What a bunch-a Eeyores!
I’m coming back from the brink (trust me, I’ve wanted to slit my wrists [metaphorically, not literally,] for the last 48 hours), and y’all sound like you’re just throwing in the towel!!!!
OK, senate passes this POS.
House has different POS.
They have to take two POS, turn it into one POS (that by the way smells way better than either one), get all happy and chummy, kumbyah…
It ain’t over yet folks, KEEP FIGHTING, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!
Chewy the Lab on December 22, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Apparently…
… he could not find anything to rhyme with “or go to jail” and “we exempted ourselves.”
Seven Percent Solution on December 22, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Settle down, cornfed ‘Christian’. Best to put on that american flag scarf of yours and hope for the best!
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM
I’m not kidding when I say, “These people are Nuckin’ Futs”!!
Bicyea on December 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM
You`re just a bucket of love aren`t ya? :)
ThePrez on December 22, 2009 at 8:57 PM
I try! You real americans are a nasty lot though! Such terrible words from a CHRISTIAN!
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Heres a palate cleanser!!:)
Reagans Address to the Nation on Christmas
===========================================
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=13394
canopfor on December 22, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Thank you Chewy. I felt all alone in the public option thread.
russcote on December 22, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Behold Roland Burris!
Without question, the most self-centered, self-congratulatory, self-elevating, certified legend-in-his-own-mind assclown SOB that has ever spewed out of the absolute lower bowels of Illinois politics!
This bloviating blowhard braggart actually has a premade mausoleum with all of his “accomplishments” and self-written tributes to the Greatness That Is He carved into its marble walls, ready for the day he assumes immortality, or as it is better known as, room temperature.
In the meanwhile, he is the living, breathing, walking, talking epitome of everything that is wrong with politics in Illinois, not to mention the rest of the country for that matter.
Just the fact that he had the unmitigated shameless gall to present this piece of rancid monkey excrement that he called “poetry” on the floor of the Senate shows that any shred of dignity used to occupy the halls of Congress is long, long gone.
But we are talking Roland Burris here, and in his own little hermeutically sealed universe, he suffers from the eternal delusion that he has nothing to be ashamed of.
Roland Burris is Contempt Personified!
pilamaye on December 22, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Because you no longer live in a representative federal republic. Man up, get over it, and prepare to take it back.
AZ_Redneck on December 22, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Moron. But what would you expect from someone who named his children Rolanda and Roland II?
Track-A-'Crat on December 22, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Burris had time to write this trash and I bet he hasn’t even read the bill.
yoda on December 22, 2009 at 9:01 PM
O.k. were did I become evil for giving you a little poke? And what is your definition of an acceptable American?
ThePrez on December 22, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Indeed. Piper, Track, Willow and Trig are waaayyy more klassy!
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Steyn is playing this on Hannity right now. Burris = Oxygen thief.
bluemarlin on December 22, 2009 at 9:02 PM
O
Not you! I was referring to the patriotic christian cornhusking type who chimed in @ 8:57.
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Oh, he worked in a “yes we can.”
Thank God! Thank God! We’re saved. Oh, thank you, Chicago Jesus! Thank you, Disciple Burris.
What would we lowly peasant voters do without you?
NebCon on December 22, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Heh. Not for four more Christmases, buttboy. I suspect that by then we’ll have gutted this wretched pig of liberal stupidity with our new and humbled Republican majority.
Jaibones on December 22, 2009 at 9:04 PM
He forced to post my own version one last time.
Twas the Fright Before Christmas (by me :))
Twas the night before Christmas,
when alas, in the House,
a strange creature I heard stirring. Was it a mouse?
Why no? It was Nancy, I leaned straining to hear,
Shouting and clamoring, she called out! “Harry Reid! Is the vote near?”
“My House Minions are waiting, all smug and pure reds!
With visions of socialism dancing in their heads!
With you in the Senate and me with my crap
We’ve laid such a wonderful health care trap!
Then suddenly on the House lawn, arose a real clatter,
I sprang to my window to see what was the matter.
A harsh light glared forth,
and a voice with re-verb said,
“Harry Reid! Harry Reid! Is my health care bill dead?”
“No!” shouted Reid! “I’ve called for a vote!”
“On this Christmas eve night,
my Senators, I awoke!”
“We will vote on this bill and we’ll pass it right now!
with 51 or 60 it matters not how!”
Could this be? I feared, on this most blessed of nights?
That such evil could prevail, it caused me such fright!
In haste I listened. It was true. He was so right!
Harry Reid began yelling out, with all of his might,
“Come Boxer, Come Schumer come Specter and Dodd
Stand up and be counted! Lets pass this big fraud!”
“We’ll take charge of the doctors, the nurses, and the rest!
We’ll control it all! From the east to the west!”
“They’ll all bow once this scam becomes law!
Yes, we’ll give you health care, Dear Leader, We’ll give you it all!”
In anguish I cried, “We’re finished, I know!”
When suddenly, my eye, in the distance, caught a faint glow.
A light in the night? A trick of the eye?
A sparkle? A twinkle? Something bright, below the sky?
Closer it came, as the light it grew. I could see now,
why yes! A tour bus, painted, bright blue!
I jumped up and did shout!
“Sarah Palin! Sarah Palin!”
I did my best to call out!
Yes, It was then, I remembered,
and, with thanks, I did pray,
Dear Lord, Give me courage, let me not
dismay!
For I saw Sarah ride by with a wink and a smile,
2010 and 2012 will be here in short while!
Evil need not win, all things can be made right!
So Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
JellyToast on December 22, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Yeah, okay, I walked into that one. Still I reckon Burris takes the prize – no-one except royalty can get away with putting numbers alongside their names…
Track-A-'Crat on December 22, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Yeah, this Christmas we`d get the bill for our present to be given to us a few years down the road. One which turns out to be a dried out turd.
I`d rather have a new pair of sox.
ThePrez on December 22, 2009 at 9:08 PM
This is the typical Dem voter, ignorant, shameless and corrupt.
Everything is a joke when it’s OPM (other people’s money). They have a lot in common with the Wall Street guys they love to hate. They don’t, really. The only animosity is that the Wall Street people actually have brains.
For BB, SimpleSimon, et al, Burris is the face of your party. Ignorant, clownish fools.
Cody1991 on December 22, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Here we go with the “good friends” bullsh_t again…
Dopenstrange on December 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM
So what’s up with this “Real American” theme you’re on @$$hole? Just taking a break from your usual “Nascar” rant? You’re still just a one trick puppet monkey though aren’t chya’?
ronnyraygun on December 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Eh, sorry you worthless scumbag pos lowlife. I am not the pietistic type of Christian you are trying to demean. I am a Missouri Synod Lutheran, and we don’t subscribe to pietism. Martin Luther used plenty of rough language to describe cnuts like you. You are a despicable anti-American PIECE OF SH!T not worthy to swirl in my ceramic basin.
OmahaConservative on December 22, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Well, George Foreman springs to mind. But he`s just awesome so I let that one pass. :)
ThePrez on December 22, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Is he bucking for “Poet Laureate” to be added to his mausoleum?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on December 22, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Fraud, waste, and abuse.
This tool doesn’t have the wit to come up with this on his own. So one of his staffers, paid for with taxpayer money, sat down and wasted time creating this.
The “D” next to their names no longer stands for Democrat.
It clearly stands for dumbsh*t. I feel sorry for Illinois.
Burris, Durbin, Obama, Axelrod, Emanual. These are examples of the best that you have?
jack herman on December 22, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Impotent cornfed rage. Have fun with that!
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 9:15 PM
That was a good, solid B+.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on December 22, 2009 at 9:15 PM
My version:
‘Twas the night before Christmas,
And the Democrats were still a bunch of lying douchebags.
The End.
Dopenstrange on December 22, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Sorry, I almost forgot: Yes, that was a good job, Jelly. Thanks for the effort.
Dopenstrange on December 22, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Beat me to my own addition, ThePrez. Foreman gets a pass for bestowing a magnificent four of his children with numerical parts to their names.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac – He might be, but Al Gore recently added that accolade to his own list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbBhMnlXBTE&feature=player_embedded
Track-A-'Crat on December 22, 2009 at 9:19 PM
imagine…not only did this bimbo not write this, but it probably took him the better part of a week to memorize it. my apologies to Barbra Boxer for the “bimbo”…
ndanielson on December 22, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Thank you sugarbritches. Make sure you lube up them sweetcheeks good for the fcuking you get from your libtard butt-buddies.
OmahaConservative on December 22, 2009 at 9:20 PM
OK! We get it! You’re a pi$$ed-off black guy with a really bad attitude towards White people. It couldn’t possibly be your own damn fault that you’re a failure… could it?
ronnyraygun on December 22, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I think that your american flag scarf is on too tight.
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Black guy? Me? You don’t have to be black to laugh at you goobers.
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Somewhat OT … a group of folks gathered outside Benedict Nelson’s Lincoln office tonight to let him know exactly what we think of his vote, and his subsequent chances for re-election in 2012. People are getting pissed off, and if the Dims think that passing this crap sandwich is going to help their poll numbers, that should tell you how disconnected from reality they really are. The leader of the group took a letter we all signed over to Gov Heineman’s office, telling him to decline the ‘special deal’ Judas secured for us.
jonrademacher on December 22, 2009 at 9:27 PM
I love my state, but man I wish Chicago would get annexed by Indiana.
Send_Me on December 22, 2009 at 9:30 PM
And let’s not forget that he invented the internet, too…
Dopenstrange on December 22, 2009 at 9:32 PM
God Bless you all!
OmahaConservative on December 22, 2009 at 9:33 PM
There’s not a shovel big enough to handle all the bullsh!t Burris just dished out.
backwoods conservative on December 22, 2009 at 9:33 PM
At least as long as Burris is in this world I know I’m not the dumbest guy with a degree from Southern Illinois University.
radjah shelduck on December 22, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Wow, you’re really obsessed with the corn, aren’t you Simon? I bet you wish you had a nice family out in the midwest somewhere; unfortunately you’re probably typing these comments from your mom’s cold basement in Queens, NY, as your Mao-loving Manchurian candidate goes down in flames!
GTR640 on December 22, 2009 at 10:04 PM
from foxnews.com. That makes perfect considering everything the B+ PResident does is “unprecedented”
MFn G I M P on December 22, 2009 at 10:15 PM
You’ve got to hand it to Burris; he’s one of a few who can tell you the results of an Illinois election BEFORE the polls open! Amazing!!
GoldenEagle4444 on December 22, 2009 at 10:22 PM
I’m sorry, Gimp, his precise words were “A solid B plus”. What an A$$clown!!
CBO — as far as I can figure — is an accountant’s firm that treat congress like God. If congress says, “Assume we will make $500 billion in unspecified cuts within the next 20 years,” CBO will make the assumption.
GTR640 on December 22, 2009 at 10:23 PM
simplesimon on December 22, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Enjoy it while you can, simpleton. You and your heros think we’ll forget and that your ilk will hit the booths in November? Your delusions WILL be your downfall (collectively speaking, of course).
Yellowdog12 on December 22, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Simplesimon met a pieman
Going to the fair;
Says Simplesimon to the pieman,
Let me taste your ware.
Says the pieman to Simplesimon,
Show me first your penny;
Says Simplesimon to the pieman,
Indeed I have not any.
Well said, Mother Goose
donbury on December 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Satire: Obama Says “A Giant Pork Sandwich” Will Lower Health Care Costs http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-says-giant-pork-sandwich-will.html
Mervis Winter on December 22, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Thank you!
yoda on December 22, 2009 at 10:56 PM
jonrademacher on December 22, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Did you publicize this? I would’ve been there had I known. Thanks for speaking on behalf of my family.
I talked with an elderly friend today. She kept calling and kept calling Nelson’s office here in Lincoln until she finally got through. She kindly but firmly told the woman who answered that Nelson had let her down and she would never vote for him again. (Like me, this woman had voted to reelect Nelson as gov., but never as senator.)
Nelson’s lackey hung up on my friend. She called back and said, “Don’t you ever hang up on me again. You work for me, not the other way around.”
I’m calling his office tomorrow.
NebCon on December 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM
THAT pisses me off to no end. Wait until they hear from me. I don’t even need to cuss at them to get my wrath across.
OmahaConservative on December 22, 2009 at 11:19 PM
I want a recording of that!
TheVer on December 22, 2009 at 11:48 PM
You don’t know just how much I value our experienced Nebraskans. The elderly are my favorite and most revered group of people.
OmahaConservative on December 22, 2009 at 11:58 PM
EVERYONE gets healthcare and MY health insurance has been paying for it my entire adult working life. It’s a zero sum game plain and simple, always has been, always will be, and that’s the reason one Tylenol costs $30 at the hospital. It’s called cost shifting. Twenty-nine of those dollars goes to offset the $100,000 bill of an inner-city gunshot victim who surly walks away from his hospital bill. So?, are gang-bangers going to pay a special “Drive-By” tax for their high risk lifestyle, like say, someone going to a tanning bed, or having a soda? Don’t make me laugh.
Pole-Cat on December 22, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Folks, please perma-ignore simplesimon. He/she/it is glorying in kicking us while we’re down. Ignore, ignore, ignore.
Mary in LA on December 23, 2009 at 12:08 AM
That has always been simplesimons mission, even in her earlier incarnation as getalife.
She eats the contents of her own diapers.
OmahaConservative on December 23, 2009 at 12:31 AM
This is Obamas replacement in the Senate, makes perfect sense!
shov74 on December 23, 2009 at 7:26 AM
The mocking arrogance of a socialist. Will we crush the secular left or will we allow them to steal from us our liberty?
WordsMatter on December 23, 2009 at 7:38 AM
You know? This ain’t over. And in my mind this POS just jinxed the dems by dancing in the end zone before the game is over.
LtE126 on December 23, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Do you think anyone cares about your silly cornfed rage? Go to your rallies, get angry on teh messageboards. Whatever – fact is, flyover clownboy, you’re getting Obamacare for Christmas.
Ho ho ho. You lose.
simplesimon on December 23, 2009 at 8:48 AM
He was really THE ONE!
Very well said!
OneConservative on December 23, 2009 at 5:51 PM
They auditioned for the most corrupt, sleaziest, no account politician to give this Christmas week performance and look who won the contest. Our state wins(??) again.
Herb on December 23, 2009 at 6:04 PM