From Politico: “This change is felt most in the Senate, which is beginning to look like a production of ‘Oklahoma’ filled with understudies and missing old stars such as Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones.”

What exactly prompted a line of thinking that led to a simile like that? Visions of Robert Byrd as Aunt Eller? John McCain and Joe Lieberman singing “People Will Say We’re in Love”?

I’m not criticizing the idea, necessarily. Chuck Grassley and Ken Salazar could dance around while the rest of the Senate sings “The farmer and the cowman should be friends.” And I hear Larry Craig is just a girl who cain’t say no.

But Kit Bond might have a hard time justifying any more huge infrastructure earmarks to Missouri after singing “Everything’s up to date in Kansas City.”

I don’t know. But who could resist Ted Kennedy with a rousing rendition:

Tuna, cod, and bass better scurry
When I take you out in the surrey….

From the Associated Press:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada appeared briefly for the cameras with six Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents on Election Day: Mark Warner of Virginia, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Udall of Colorado, his cousin Tom of New Mexico, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Jeff Merkley of Oregon.

Lessee now: the incumbent Mark Warner defeated was…oh. He didn’t defeat an incumbent. John Warner didn’t run again, and Mark Warner won the open seat.

The incumbent defeated by Mark Udall was Wayne Allard, who got absolutely slaughtered–he didn’t get one single vote! Oh, wait–he didn’t run for re-election, either. So that was an open seat also.

And the incumbent defeated by Tom Udall was Pete Domenici–also absolutely slaughtered, also not getting a single…. Ah. Also didn’t run again.

But the other three–AP got those right. That’s a .500 batting average for the AP today–ahead of the norm!

(This guy also plays “Classical Gas,” which I guess also describes what he’s playing above.)

(Two fart-related posts in a row–and they’re the only offerings in many weeks. Rather sad. I blame George W. Bush.)