Verses from Headlines in the Washington Post -- The Washington Monument was still being built when the Know-Nothings attacked it. -- Those UFO videos are real, the Navy says, but please stop saying ‘UFO’ -- Beto O’Rourke calls for federal legalization of marijuana, government stipends for ex-offenders .

Politics in Washington has always been insane.

Partisan shenanigans do not require brain.

Mugwumps and the Know-Nothings were just an early form

of the locust ninnyhammers that today still swarm.

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The little green men have come down to see

what's going on in our U.S. Navee.

And when they are done surveying our ships

they will unleash their great man-eating thrips.

But our doughty sailors ain't scared in the least;

they'll roast up the bugs for an admiral's feast.

And if those green runts still won't go away,

we'll lock 'em all up in Guantanamo Bay!

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It's pie in the sky from that Beto O'Rourke,

a modern day genie we had to uncork.

A nation of potheads he wants to produce,

then enrich jailbirds for escaping the noose.

I also have heard, if I do not mistake,

he'd like to add sugar to sweeten Salt Lake.

And then bring back reruns of Mindy & Mork,

that runcible, dunce-able Beto O'Rourke!