Verses from Stories in Today's Washington Post. ** How to run for Congress ** NRA chief Wayne LaPierre received a 57 percent pay raise in 2018, tax filings show, ** Obama tells Democratic candidates to ease off talk of revolution.

@chrisalcantara  @bonnieberkowitz

Anyone can run these days

for a seat in the Big Maze.

All you need is attitude

(and some fat cat gratitude.)

Be sincere and open to

what your voters want to do.

Speak of honesty a lot

(just make sure you don't get caught.)

And if you're savaged by a tweet

from the Prez, you can't be beat!

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@bethreinhard

If you want a big payday

learn to run the NRA;

those galoots who head the org

own chateaus in Luxembourg.

Shooting off your mouth, it seems,

gives you wealth in golden streams.

Never mind the lives all scarred;

you can send a Hallmark card. 

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@WaPoSean

Democrats think revolution

is perhaps their best solution;

but Obama has said 'whoa,'

don't in that direction go!

Keep it peaceful, calm, serene;

make campaigning plain and clean.

Now it's a religious quest,

exorcising that blonde Pest.

Only those whose hearts are pure

will find a White House path for sure.