AYES FOR THE NEWT

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas (Artist Willson Meredith)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
Take a look in the five and ten glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in ev'ry store
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front door.

A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben;
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen;
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
There's a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well,
The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas;
Soon the bells will start,
And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart.


From the diary of David Brooks;
I’d say it aloud and I’d say it to myself; Newt Gingrich will imperil conservatism and the Republican party if he runs as the GOP nominee. With three wives, cheating on two of them when they each had cancer, trying to shut down the government while speaker, lobbying (or whatever you call it) to get 1.6 million dollars from Freddie Mac, the list is endless. 50% of America says they won’t vote for him under any circumstances. Sometimes even a political writer has to stop thinking about politics. Brooks was just on the radio station that was playing (what else) Christmas music.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Gingrich
Every new poll shows he alive and he’s back again
his lead is well over ten
his same old games has got his gang aglow
It’s beginning to look a lot like Gingrich
He poo poo’s his lies of yore
so what if he’s had wives three
he says this time he’ll act faithfully
and these days he will stray away no more.
Once a lobbyist in cahoots
he now says the point is moot
and that he won’t work for Fannie Mae again
about his past please don’t talk
his draft dodging way back then
and this time he just can’t wait
so he can stop the government again
It’s beginning to look a lot like Gingrich
though his past peers say no
as speaker he wasn’t swell
he’s calm now so you can’t tell
just when that famous temper just might blow