Burris Slams Republicans in Reworked 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'

It was the night before Christmas, and all through the Senate, the Right held up our health care bill, no matter what was in it.

The people had voted a mandated reform, but Republicans blew off the gathering storm. We’ll clog up the Senate, they cried with a grin. And in the midterm elections, we’ll get voted in. They knew regular folks needed help right this second, but fundraisers and lobbyists and politics beckoned.

So try as they might, Democrats could not win because the majority was simply too thin. Then across every state there rose such a clatter, the whole Senate rushed out to see what was the matter. All sprang up from their desk and ran from the floor, straight through the cloakroom and right out the door. What in the world would be quite so raucous, but a mandate for change from the Democratic caucus.