(A Houston version of the Irish folk song)
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Wing Nut Ex Machina
Calvin Trillin: The ace that the Democrats have in their deck.
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On CEO Lloyd Blankfein's Statement That Goldman Sachs Is 'Doing God's Work'
Calvin Trillin: The Lord has got an itch to see these folks filthy rich.
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Senator Joe Lieberman and the Public Option
Calvin Trillin: He'll work to make a filibuster stick.
They don't know you, much less your kvetchy wife.
Yes, it's sad when pols that you've been shmeering
Now hope that you'll get twenty years to life.
They sang your song: They passed deregulation.
They passed your laws. They bent the regs your way.
But now they track your every obfuscation.
Old Kenny Boy, their Kenny Boy's now Mr. Lay.
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