Oh wow it's the Tortoise and the Her. You two do great together. Nice jabs on this one. I could just see those emails going back and forth - yes it is - no its not, etc. You two nailed it. Team writing, reminds me of "Merry & Pippin". Find job girls. 5's at ya.

Well, Tiddle-dee-dee! Nice use of a great song. Perfect fit. I can hear the Great One's delivery now. Iranian caviar for everyone! See, collaboration need not be a hair-pulling experience when great minds think alike. ;-)

Slow and steady "fiddling" wins the "pace"!! Great collaboration!

Great parody and the most momentous teaming since Mike Nichols and Elaine May! ;D

1) You have the right to remain violin'st.

2 If you choose to give up this right, any parts of mine will be held against you.

3) You are entitled to an aturtle during composing.. You are actually entitled to an attorney, but are much too nice to deserve one.

4) If you cannot accord an aturtle, one will be a pointed beak, at no cost to you save your sanity, what little remains.

5) Knowing these rights as I have explained them to you, are you now willing to follow my orders unquestioningly? Yes? Then screw these parodies - let's get the flock out of here, and get you out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.

Look, alleged Guy, just 'cuz it's hidden inside a shell doesn't mean it isn't there. :) Ask my 100,000 children -- and yes, that's in decimal.

I'm so jealous and resentful. Why wasn't I picked to be part of this team? I'll show you! 111

Nice collaborative effort! 555

CB - You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friend's nose - and you can't pick around with this. So quit pickin' around and slingin' ones and knock off the hissy fit.

he he

Guy: LOL @ the Tortoise and Her... The transcript isn't 100% accurate, I must confess. I never told him to get stuffed. ;)

M4sBWU: Tiddle-dee-dee? Why didn't *I* think of that? BTW, I'm not sure TT and I make 2 complete minds put together, but we both probably need all the help we can get! :)

Mark Scotti: You always make me laugh! ;)

OMR: You are much, MUCH too kind! When's *your* next parody?

Miranda: a dry martini? Ha! (OK to stir, but must not be shaken.) ;)

DJ: Thanks for v/c! :D

Ann: He he he's somethin' else, isn't he? ;)

I wouldn't mind the pacing being so off if this parody wasn't a big fat lie. President Obama is NOT overspending. In case you haven't noticed, he had an economic emergency dumped in his lap, and when that happens, you spend, and you spend, and you spend some more. And it worked: The Bush Recession did NOT become a depression, as it would have if we'd gotten McCain continuing the trickle-down. Conservatism doesn't work!

Michael, I take full responsibility, because I forced banks to lend to unqualified borrowers, in the interest of "equal opportunity" (despite unequal qualification), and of bragging about how minority homeownership increased during my term, and during Gov. Bush's. Of course, this huge increase in lending caused a huge bubble in housing prices, which eventually burst when -- surprise -- the unqualified borrowers who lied about their incomes to get "no-doc" loans couldn't pay, causing the bust.

Since housing is such a major part of the economy, the rest followed naturally. I appreciate your defending the President, but I probably should have known better at the time. Unfortunately, I had other things on my mind -- like, uh, "intern-al affairs". Thanks anyway.

@ MP:

"if this parody wasn't a big fat lie."

So are you, if the bathroom walls at Newark Liberty are to be believed.

It seems you know your classic oldies catalog about as well as you know your politics. Someone's "pacing" is definitely off here, but it's certainly not TT's or mine.

"Conservatism doesn't work!"

Neither does ignorance. And neither do large numbers of liberals, it seems. But that's another parody altogether. Cheers.

I sense angst in your comment Michael. How does it feel to be on the receiving end of politics now that Bush has gone back to the bush? You surely put your share of stuff out there back when. You can dish it out but you are poor at taking it. And I always thought "a big fat lie" was a decent place to hit your second shot on a hole of golf. But then again as I recall you loath golf. We're not going away Michael so you better get used to it or just ignore us as I did you for how many years?

You know Fiddlegirl there was some of the same stuff written on the men's room walls of the Newark Liberty. They have a section called "believe it or not". I chose NOT.

..."as I recall you loath golf. "

It's probably because he can't ever make par... or maybe because his masher shots always fall short and he can't get the little ball into the hole... ;)

Fiddlegirl and Tommy Turtle....the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers of AmIRight, or the new Merry & Pippin? Two words: Dynamic Duo! Can't tell who did who's part in the parody when you both were working on it. Oh, well! You put on quite a show with this satire! Now I'm going to read your other parody you posted today! This was time well spent on your parts! 5's!

Christie Marie M: Both very flattering comparisons, thank you! Yes, we spent a lot of time on our parts... (no, give me strength, no, please...) Thanks for v/c!

TT, Fiddlegirl, Guy... Have you seen your numbers lately? 178 in the House, 40 in the Senate. And nobody in the White House unless you want to count two Cabinet members. Sounds like you are going away, and America is relieved. But then, I don't hang out in airport bathrooms. I'm not a Republican Senator. If there's one thing the last three days have proven, it's that a dead Democrat is worth more than any 100 living Republicans!

@ MP: Why, yes, I believe I have seen those numbers. Those are from last November, correct? Seems I remember some other numbers from then, too. 69,456,897 to 59,934,814, which translates into a victory of 52.9% to 45.7%. There were several thousand other votes cast for third-party candidates. Those votes, though, in total, represent only between 60-63% of registered voters, leaving the opinions of 37-40% of American voters unaccounted for. Hardly the mandate you wish to claim.

Then, too, your numbers haven't changed since the election. However, numbers for unemployment, national debt, etc., have. And not in a positive direction, either.

"But then, I don't hang out in airport bathrooms. I'm not a Republican Senator."..

Then perhaps you "hang out" in hotel rooms and with interns in the Oval Office, like a former Democratic president? Actually, 2 ... and at least 1 attorney general-- if we include the brothers of St. Ted.

"If there's one thing the last three days have proven, it's that a dead Democrat is worth more than any 100 living Republicans!"
How and to whom that's been "proven" by anyone is beyond me. However, a certain young lady at Chappaquiddick was certainly worth just as much as that dead Democrat.

In conclusion, since you've admitted in the past that your "rule" is automatically to trash any parody with which you disagree (http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional1584.shtml), it would follow that reason is not exactly your strongest suit. Given that, I'm not sure why either your stylistic ratings *or* your comments should be taken seriously anymore.

We're so happy you stopped by, but how can we miss you if you won't go away?

As I've stated here several times, I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of the Republican party. I've been a registered LIbertarian since I was old enough to vote, and a philosophical libertarian since I was old enough to think, i. e., about age three.

What FG was trying to point out to you -- she was much too generous to you to assume that you'd follow the link -- was your comment at my Palin parody, which I quote:

Michael Pacholek - September 25, 2008 - Report this comment
Now that I'm back, all Pale-in-comparison tributes get triple ones. That's the rule

So, the question on the table is: Are all of us therefore entitled to triple-1 all of your political parodies? Certainly so -- it's *your* rule, right?
Or are you exempt from your own rules, as the US Congress is? If so, pray tell us why.

You're in a tough dilemma (look up the literal meaning of that word), Mr. Pacholek. Either you consider yourself some sort of God here, able to make your own rules to apply to the rest of us but not to yourself (a proposition ludicrous on its face), or else you've given us all license to 111 all of your parodies.

You have thirty seconds to make your choice. (theme from "Jeopardy" plays. Either way, you lose.

In the absence of a response, we'll assume the Pacholek rule applies to all of us. Enjoy the onslaught ot Ones.

A para house slynamic duo emerges, bursting on the scene radiatin' chikina, er, chicane'a er chick-keena glory... you tewe deserve large flagons of praise--which you can place on your co-op mantle next to your "Pot Stirrers Of The Year" award!

TJC: It was our first time... (sigh) .. .so romantic... the breeze was blowing softly through my ears .... and it does seem that the duo is synergistic enough that it won't be flagon for a while. :) Thanks for v/c, and you *do* know I'm still here for you, right? (I haven't yet told FG that I'm bilexual.)

"I wouldn't mind the pacing being so off if this parody wasn't a big fat lie. President Obama is NOT overspending."

Reality, news story today:

"The United States just passed a dubious milestone: Government debt surged to an all-time high, more than $14 trillion. ... Today's debt level represents a $45,300 tab for each and everyone in the country. It soared from $7.6 trillion in January 2005 as President George W. Bush began his second term to $10.6 trillion the day Obama was inaugurated and to $14.02 trillion now. "

LET'S DO THE MATH:

GWB 2nd term: Jan. 20, 2005 - Jan. 20, 209 = increase of $3 trillion, or $750 billion/year.

Obama inaugurated Jan. 20, 2009 (with Democratic supermajority in Congress) - today, Jan. 15, 2011 = increase of $3.6 trillion in a little less than two years, or $1.8 trillion/year, a 140% increase in the annual rate of growth of the debt since his inauguration.

"With a $1.7 trillion deficit in budget year 2010 alone, and the government on track to spend $1.3 trillion more this year than it takes in, annual budget deficits are adding roughly $4 billion a day to the national debt. Put another way, the government is borrowing 41 cents for every dollar it spends."

Still trying to pretend that O doesn't stand for Overspender (among other things?)

BACK TO YOU, MICHAEL:

"In case you haven't noticed, he had an economic emergency dumped in his lap, and when that happens, you spend, and you spend, and you spend some more. And it worked:"

It did? Where? On which planet, exactly? Recent forecast is that the number of home foreclosures in 2011 will break the record set in 2010 (both of which were Obama years, you know). Unemployment is still waaay above average, and is *understated", because those who simply give up looking for work are (conveniently) no longer counted as "unemployed" in those figures. Estimates of "real" unemployment figures, adding back in those who gave up, range from 15% to 20%. But when did reality ever get in the way of wishful thinking?

We wrote this almost a year and a half ago. Reality has proven that we were correct, not you. Were we prescient? No, just ruled by reality. [1] Cheers, if you can manage any.


[1] TT's MBA in Economics and 20+ years in the financial field probably helped a little, admittedly.

(source: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110115/ap_on_re_us/us_debt_wars
(no www needed)