{"id":9902,"date":"2015-08-31T10:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=9902"},"modified":"2015-08-31T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:41:20","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-how-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-how-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: HOW SPECIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

HOW SPECIAL
\nRules applied to the masses and not<\/span> them,
\nBut their hubris eventually got them:
\nFirst fell Spitzer, then Weiner,
\nAnd now somebody meaner \u2013
\nThe Belle of Benghazi, Ms. Rodham.<\/p>\n

From the archive<\/em><\/p>\n

SENSE OF HUMA
\n\u201cIf your husband is horny like Bill,
\nYou should pose as the good wife like Hill.
\nDo whatever you must
\nTo regain public trust:
\nOnce in office, then do what you will.\u201d
\n(2013)<\/p>\n

WEINER DOES SINATRA
\nI\u2019ve got the world on a screen,
\nI\u2019m tweeting with a co-ed,
\nGot a thing about my weiner \u2013
\nWhat a word! Where\u2019s my wife? I\u2019m enlarged.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a shot that I send,
\nIt\u2019ll make her brain blow,
\nOr, again, it might offend her \u2013
\nLusty me! Can\u2019t you see? I\u2019m enlarged.<\/p>\n

Wife\u2019s a wonderful thing
\nAs long as I have my flings.
\nI\u2019d be a really stupid schmo
\nIf I should ever let her know.
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

MISTWEETED
\nLittle Anthony had to get meaner,
\nBeing hung with a handle like Weiner,
\nHaving always his surname
\nBeing used as a slur name:
\nCould cognomens be any obscener?
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

CRAFT PRODUCT
\nOh, you ought to get an oscar, \u201cMayor\u201d Weiner,
\nFor the explanation of your tweet,
\nBut I doubt you\u2019ll get an oscar, \u201cMayor\u201d Weiner,
\nOr even keep your legislative seat.
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

AL GORGE
\nIf a human is hungry for strudel,
\nHe can get some by using his noodle,
\nBut his quest for confection
\nMay result in rejection
\nIf he paws like a poor, crazed sex poodle.
\n(2010)<\/p>\n

SPITZER
\n\u201cNew York State Attorney General\u201d rang fine,
\n\u201cNew York Governor\u201d sounded divine,
\nAnd yet even more eminent
\nWould have been \u201cU.S. President\u201d
\n\u2013 But, instead, he is now \u201cNumber 9.\u201d
\n(2008)<\/p>\n

INCOMMODE
\nSee how swiftly the mighty do fall
\nAnd their bigness become very small:
\nGet a little too noisy
\nWhile you\u2019re cruising for Boise
\nAnd you\u2019ll find your career in a stall.
\n(2007)<\/p>\n

BIRDS OF A FEATHER
\nIn both Parties you\u2019ll find creep and crank,
\nEven some who are thoroughly rank,
\nBut Republicans wholly
\nHave disavowed Foley,
\nWhile the Democrats laud Barney Frank.
\n(2006)<\/p>\n

MISS KOPECHNE REGRETS
\n\u201cThough I\u2019ll miss your grand tribute to Ted,
\nI\u2019ll be with you in spirit instead
\nAs you strive to deny
\nThat grave night in July
\nWhen he swam off and left me for dead.\u201d
\n(2004)<\/p>\n

ZOMBIES
\nFrom justice they craftily fled
\nAnd avoided the sanctions they dread;
\nNow O.J. and Bill
\nCan linger at will
\nIn the night of the fast-living dead.
\n(2001)<\/p>\n

MR. PRECEDENT
\nWhat a vile conglomeration
\nOf every abomination:
\nIn Clinton\u2019s wake,
\nOnly villains will make
\nA bid for the nomination.
\n(1999)<\/p>\n

WEENIE ROAST
\nIn Congress there\u2019s many a crank,
\nAnd a few who belong in the tank,
\nBut leading the race
\nAs a public disgrace
\nIs the Honorable Barney Frank!
\n(1998)<\/p>\n

AKA
\nNelson, Luciano, Capone
\nAll had nicknames uniquely their own.
\nIn Bill Clinton\u2019s case,
\nYou can bet \u201cCigarface\u201d
\nIs the moniker by which he\u2019ll be known!
\n(1998)<\/p>\n

SO THAT\u2019S WHAT YOU CALL IT!
\nShe was flattered he found her appealing,
\nBut preferred that he be less revealing.
\nBill tried to explain
\nHe was feeling her pain,
\nBut Paula knew what he was feeling!
\n(1998)<\/p>\n

HILLARY\u2019S CONVICTION
\nThe First Lady\u2019s a post-modern wife
\nIn responding to marital strife:
\nShe\u2019ll stand by her man
\nAs long as she can,
\n\u2018Cause it\u2019s better than \u201c20 to Life.\u201d
\n(1998)<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s limerick<\/em><\/p>\n

WORST FIRSTS
\nAll those firsts were considered quite foreign
\n‘Til the day we ostensibly swore in
\nThe first Catholic, Jack,
\nThe first black man, Barack,
\nThe first Native American, Warren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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