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In The Car Podcast Episode 4 – Home Impeachment Edition

In this episode of the In The Car Podcast, I sing a song about the impeachment of Donald Trump. The episode was recorded on December 19th, but I had to do a little editing and was not able to complete that until today.

The tune is “The Christmas Song” by Robert Wells and Mel Torme, new lyrics are as shown below:

The Impeachment Song

Donald Trump wanted to inflict some pain

On Joe Biden, yes, his biggest foe

A perfect phone call with the head of Ukraine

And a chance to make a quid pro quo

 

Everybody knew they had to start the coverup

Hide the transcript as quickly as they could

But then a whistleblower stood and spoke up

That Trump did not act like he should

 

The House began to join the fray

By calling witnesses who had a lot to say

And after several weeks, they found the truth

That everyone was in the loop

 

And so our country had a choice to make

To figure out what we had to do

For Donald Trump, after solemn debate

It’s impeachment for you

In this recent article by Ken Smith, he makes an effective argument that all of us will soon need to be more involved in our democracy….

We need to use more potent words than words like do something. We need some particular ideas, some actual knowledge, not just ideas about climate change but, with the same urgency, ideas about activism. How it really works.

Finally – the Donald Trump cave-in has happened!

From CNN: Donald Trump has caved. And now the government is going to re-open.

The actual bill the Senate and House are approving: House Joint Resolution 28: Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019. I could not find a link to the Senate version of the bill, will add that when it is available.

The two Senate amendments from January 24th:

 

Bookmarked
The New Yorker: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Message to the Democratic Party – good summary of how a newcomer in New York is challenging the Democratic Party.