Comments on: Locals give Pawlenty a Frosty send-off http://minnesotaindependent.com/51945/pawlenty-robert-frost-new-hampshire News. Politics. Media. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Lazercat http://minnesotaindependent.com/51945/pawlenty-robert-frost-new-hampshire/comment-page-1#comment-45241 Lazercat Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:43:04 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=51945#comment-45241 No taxes is his battle cry As he glares with beady eye I'll fix the budget up you'll see. By forcing a new tax levy And if that doesn't do the trick I'll raise your local taxes quick And if borrowing is not the key I'll not call it taxes, but a fee Now of to New Hampshire, I am sent To do the same as President No taxes is his battle cry
As he glares with beady eye

I’ll fix the budget up you’ll see.
By forcing a new tax levy

And if that doesn’t do the trick
I’ll raise your local taxes quick

And if borrowing is not the key
I’ll not call it taxes, but a fee

Now of to New Hampshire, I am sent
To do the same as President

]]> By: Bill Beyer http://minnesotaindependent.com/51945/pawlenty-robert-frost-new-hampshire/comment-page-1#comment-45172 Bill Beyer Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:54:17 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=51945#comment-45172 At the end of the last session, I wrote my own. Apologies to Longfellow. The Song of Higher Office By Bill Beyer On the shores of insolvency By the shining legislature Stood the office of Pawlenty T-Paw, Chief of Minnesota   Revenue in diminution Chopping cost his sole solution Don’t fix up no taxing loophole Don’t clean up no corporate poophole No adjustment to the budget That could make a liberal hug it Sell no bond for building maintenance Cost of debt too high for patience But, by magic of Pawlenty Borrow mega-bucks aplenty Pay more interest to the rich few Presto, change-o, debt is revenue   Take those bucks from big tobacco, Securitize, and don’t look back, Oh Can you see how he looks tougher As the least among us suffer? Make it work with one-time shifting Magic acts that leave us drifting Don’t address no nitty-gritties Kick the can down to our kiddies Gotta live within our meanies Thus spake all the tax-hawk weenies Waste no time by grinding axes Bottom line is no new taxes Don’t ask no more taxing question Don’t expect no special session Don’t do no negotiation As goes T-Paw goes the nation Just one cure for tax-besotment Give a hand to unallotment! Stamping vetoes by line item Making cuts, ad infinitum Looking tougher, striking poses Practicing his thumbing noses Lest we were too dense to notice T-Paw wants to be the POTUS Campaign ‘12 already starting MN attention span departing Focus now on national wooing Campaign slogans for reviewing: “T-paw, T-paw he’s our hero! Unallot us down to zero!” “Private perfect, public too lax, Only good tax is a dead tax!” “Help our rich protect their riches Shove our poorest in the ditches!”   On the shores of insolvency By the tarnished legislature Thus departed Chief Pawlenty Turned around and waved a finger Launched his birch canoe for sailin’ Off to battle Sarah Palin “And the people from the margin Watched him floating, rising, sinking,” And they said farewell forever Said good riddance, Chief Pawlenty. At the end of the last session, I wrote my own. Apologies to Longfellow.

The Song of Higher Office
By Bill Beyer

On the shores of insolvency
By the shining legislature
Stood the office of Pawlenty
T-Paw, Chief of Minnesota
 
Revenue in diminution
Chopping cost his sole solution
Don’t fix up no taxing loophole
Don’t clean up no corporate poophole
No adjustment to the budget
That could make a liberal hug it

Sell no bond for building maintenance
Cost of debt too high for patience
But, by magic of Pawlenty
Borrow mega-bucks aplenty
Pay more interest to the rich few
Presto, change-o, debt is revenue
 
Take those bucks from big tobacco,
Securitize, and don’t look back, Oh
Can you see how he looks tougher
As the least among us suffer?

Make it work with one-time shifting
Magic acts that leave us drifting
Don’t address no nitty-gritties
Kick the can down to our kiddies

Gotta live within our meanies
Thus spake all the tax-hawk weenies
Waste no time by grinding axes
Bottom line is no new taxes

Don’t ask no more taxing question
Don’t expect no special session
Don’t do no negotiation
As goes T-Paw goes the nation

Just one cure for tax-besotment
Give a hand to unallotment!
Stamping vetoes by line item
Making cuts, ad infinitum
Looking tougher, striking poses
Practicing his thumbing noses

Lest we were too dense to notice
T-Paw wants to be the POTUS
Campaign ‘12 already starting
MN attention span departing
Focus now on national wooing
Campaign slogans for reviewing:

“T-paw, T-paw he’s our hero!
Unallot us down to zero!”

“Private perfect, public too lax,
Only good tax is a dead tax!”

“Help our rich protect their riches
Shove our poorest in the ditches!”
 
On the shores of insolvency
By the tarnished legislature
Thus departed Chief Pawlenty
Turned around and waved a finger
Launched his birch canoe for sailin’
Off to battle Sarah Palin

“And the people from the margin
Watched him floating, rising, sinking,”
And they said farewell forever
Said good riddance, Chief Pawlenty.

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