Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the aisle.
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….