Rashida Tlaib

At a reception Thursday night for the progressive group MoveOn.org, Rashida Tlaib vowed that the new Democrat-controlled House would be focusing on ousting President Trump from office . . . "we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf-----.”

by Amy B. Wang for the Washington Post

Congress sits in Heaven, as it does down here on Earth.

And dear departed members are now meeting without mirth.

A woman fresh elected to those hallowed halls below

has used such vulgar cursing that the angel's eardrums glow.

Speaker of the astral House, the honest Tip O'Neill,

gaveled them to order and began his weighty spiel:

"Members of the House and Senate, guests in gallery;

I come before you now with a most dreadful tragedy."

"A female member of the House has language used this day

that devils would not suffer even their own imps to bray.

Upon the Earth the pure in heart are shocked and angry now.

So what does this angelic group propose to do, and how?"

Up shot Huey Long, 'The Kingfish,' from his downy seat.

He looked upon the multitude as if he had sore feet.

"Mah fellow members, ah declare this gal must be chastised

afore the carnsarn people down there make her canonized!"

"Point of order!" Fishbait Miller, Keeper of the Door,

yelled from center field as he did stride upon the floor.

"Censoring of members, though their language is quite shocking,

would our Constitution make a thing of rags and mocking!"

Then stood Daniel Webster, and the silence was intense

as he said "Let Donald Trump full justice now dispense!"

(And way up in the gallery, by Special Dispensation,

Lucifer did mutter "Trump will soon be at MY station.") 

The meeting was in uproar, members shouting left and right,

when suddenly a woman stood and quelled the noisy fight.

Long ago Montana sent her to her Congress seat;

J.P. Rankin is her name, and now she spoke with heat:

"I voted 'gainst the entry of our country into war,

not once but twice despite the deep intimidating roar.

I vote again for peace and understanding, not for hate.

Let us now be tolerant and simply watch and wait."

Henry Cabot Lodge did second Rankin's proposition.

Hubert Humphrey hugged her for her principled decision.

And so the heavenly Congress is now marking time to see

just what Rashida Tlaib means to modern history . . .