CAPITOL OFFENSE
[ blues ]
You got’ta feed your congressman, baby
You got to feed him every day
You got’ta feed your congressman, baby
You got to feed him every day
Oh, mornin’, noon an’ nighttime
You got’ta kiss his ass in every way
Pay his kid’s way to law school
Buy his ol’ lady a fancy car
Pay his kid’s way to law school
Buy his ol’ lady a fancy car
Supply him a little boy blue
An’ expensive Cuban cigars
You got’ta feed your congressman, baby
You got’ta feed him every time you get the chance
You got’ta wine him an’ dine him
And fly'm to Tahiti and France
The more ya bribe him, baby
The deeper he'll stick his hand down in your pants
Got the businessman in his pocket
The preacher man in his Gucci shoe
Got the businessman in his pocket
The preacher in his Gucci shoe
Started in life a rich man
An’ likely he’ll die one, too
Ignore the homeless an’ the veterans
And cut the funds for healthcare
Vote himself a raise and leave
The school lunch tables bare
Fill up the ol’ pork barrel
And build a bridge to nowhere
Pack Wall Street’s war chest
On a false weapons pitch
Take food off the poor plate
An’ give it all to the rich
Like Robin Hood in reverse
A no-class lyin’ ass son of a bitch
Headin’ up to DC
For a day of recompense
Oh, headin’ on up to DC
People’s day of recompense
Join the million-mile protest line
A genuine capitol offense
Yeah, a genuine capitol offense * **
Common
Cause Susan B. Anthony
Institute
DEDICATED TO: The 108th Congress, O House of Heathen Shame! Also dedicated
to Susan B. Anthony, long-suffering and most determined champion of women's
suffrage and Human Rights. It is reported that Samuel Clemens replied when asked whether or not women should be allowed to
vote: "As bad as their choices may be, they of a certainty could do no worse than the men
have done".
*FootNote: "The soul of democracy, the essence of the word itself, is government of, by and for the
people. And the soul of democracy has been dying, drowning in a rising tide of big money
contributed by a narrow, unrepresentative elite that has betrayed the faith of citizens in
self-government."
--Bill Moyers; speech before Environmental Grantmakers Association, October 16, 2001
**FootNote: Excerpt from a letter to the editor by the author; July, 2001. . .
"Since 1968, the year we lost Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. (it's been
downhill ever since), the real immoral culprit to blame is not the Nixons, Fords, Carters,
Reagans, Bushs or even Clintons that followed, but rather, those congressional motley crews who
in their asinine arrogance of self-serving ignorance, would have us believe that they somehow
represent we the people.
"All of the above, including especially President Carter, were hamstrung to downright
hog-tied in attempting to get any reasonable legislation past for the ultimate long term benefit
of America. And the current attempt by the House to scuttle any semblance of election
reform only clearly indicates that there is no change in the ill-wind blowing from the northeast
halls of malfeasance coming any time soon. There is perhaps no time in the history of the
United States where such open and unbridled rule by the 'corporate fat' lobby pocket has been
allowed to replace the now only remotely theoretical, rule by the people.
"Perhaps what is necessary is a bi-partisan effort on the part of we the people to run their
pork-fat butts in mass, out of Washington and up the nearest flagpole where they belong. As
Samuel Clemens was want to remark during the "gilded age" of similar political
self-serving indulgence, the only true patriot is the one who advocates hanging them all and
starting over."
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