Barbara Boxer: All She Wants to Do is Tax
by Chuck DeVore
All She Wants to Do is Tax! Music video parody of Barbara Boxer in time for the tea party rallies.
Political parody has a long tradition in the West, with the First Amendment affording significant protections for political speech. In spite of that, our political parody of President Obama, “After the Hope of November is Gone” using rocker Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” as the vehicle attracted the wrath of Henley, as he engaged lawyers to threaten an alternative paper and temporarily bounced the music video from YouTube.
I’ve penned my second parody based on Henley’s song, “All She Wants to do is Dance.” This one goes after Sen. Barbara Boxer, my opponent in 2010, just in time for the national tea party rallies and my address at the tea party at Modesto on Tax Day.
“All She Wants to do is Tax” can be seen on YouTube, and (for backup, incase Henley pulls it from YouTube, see: http://www.chuck76.com/tax).
The Daily Pilot ran a story on their blog today where Sen. Boxer’s press spokesperson criticized my spending a lot of time writing song lyrics. Interesting observation, coming from a staffer for a senator who’s written a steamy political novel while in office (A Time to Run: A Novel) and is releasing a sequel to that novel this July: Time Out. Fun fact: my own novel, China Attacks, has better Amazon sales figures and has been translated into Chinese for sales in Taiwan but is banned in China.
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The Tea Party tax protests might actually work better than anyone expects. The counter arguments are incredible.
The main thing I'm hearing is how silly the protests are because taxes are so low and no one, much, is the least unhappy about our tax rates.
What this logically leads to is those making counter arguments, making those arguments (as one elected Democrat in Arizona actually did), come out and say that the *real* problem is that taxes are too low and we should raise them. Which can only lend credence to anyone trying to point out that Democrats want to tax us as much as they can possibly get away with taxing us. (Republicans, too, mostly. But they at least pretend otherwise.)
It's also a "win" every time someone can be induced to make the argument, "But paying taxes is patriotic." or "Not wanting to pay taxes is unpatriotic."
Chuck, I'm thinking that Don Henley is not going to vote for you.
P.S. Sounds like you're annoying all the right people!
Photo caption: "Sen. Boxer demonstrates favorite proctology technique."
Free speech lives, in the form of political parody. Henley can take a flier. And Barbara Boxer can tax this!
As concerned citizens, could we at least pool our money and treat this woman to a makeover? And maybe a few new blazers?
http://the100mostannoyingthings.blogspot.com/
I can assume that we will be seeing a parody of Witchy Woman as soon as she gets a sneak peak of this one??
Excellent job.
She may sing the refrain 'All I wanna do is tax, tax, tax…" yet one suspects she won't pay any of them!
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." Yes, that's California's taxing triumvirate of terror, Boxer, Feinstein and Pelosi. It's time to clean out the hen house. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
I want to see if this one gets pulled. Can a parody song have only one political slant? Go Chuck and good luck in the race.
More awesomeness, Chuck! Kick him when he's u– Well, ol' Don doesn't seem too up these days (though his daily royalties probably lap what I make in a year), so just keep kickin' him when he's down.
Thanks Chuck…now the damn song is stuck in my head.
Little Barbara Boxer
sat in a box car
eating her tax and spend pie
she stuck in her thumb
and said "you will succumb
because I and the messiah are high"
TEABAGGERS UNITE!
On the way…
Excellant! Extra points for Shakespearean reference in a comment!
You mean Republicans actually run for Senate in California? Where do I send money and will anyone run against Waxman?
This intellectual lightweight should be shown the door asap. It's bad enough the other brain surgeon from Taxifornia got involved in the "Night Stalker" case years ago as mayor of San Fran, blew the L.A. cops main clues, leading to the perp to throw THE gun and shoes off the Golden Gate Bridge and he fled back to L.A., prolonging his capture and leading to more murders back in L.A. (he bailed S.F. after Ms. Mayor shot her mouth off grandstanding on T.V.). Boxer isn't an accomplice in any murders that we know of (wink, wink Hillary!, Vince "the boyfriend" Foster) but still damages the country every single day she rules from on high.
DeVore thinks he stroke Gold with the Henley parody “thing”. What DeVore is not realizing is that by parodying Henley’s work, he is really doing a political disservice to himself. DeVore may temporarily gain from all this media attention. But -in the long run- he will loose credibility as a politician. However, he is on the right track, if he wants to establish himself as the next Rush Limbaugh and get his own radio show. Or, perhaps he can land a job with the “comedy circuit”? Running for office should not be a Saturday Night Live episode.
Hey, kids, if everyone here votes for Chuck against Barbara Boxer, he might actually break triple digits in the election!
Chuck, I've read your stuff on Red County and I'm impressed. You're a smart guy who's fighting for the right things. Good luck and God bless.
Just so I'm clear….Over taxing is wrong. Using copyrighted material without permission is fine?
Overtaxing is charging us (taxpayers) more than necessary for what we're receiving. Go down to the Walgreens and buy something for 7.95. How much should you pay for it? I'd guess your answer is $7.95 (we'll ignore sales taxes for now). But how about they charge you $10.49? Would that be wrong?
The real problem with overtaxing is that the Govt doesn't return excess taxes to us – they simply find more things to spend the money on. Like studying flatulence in cows or how to cut down the smells from pig farms.
Using copyrighted material without permission is NOT ok, but parody is protected by the First Amendment, so in that case it is OK, too.
Cool, huh?
She is a BAD check writer!
For Pelosi, it'll be Desperado, re-titled Ditsy Dog Doo.
I'm an optimist, but the West Side Democrats have a complete, unshakable lock on that district. The Republicans could run a combination of Moses and Jesus against Waxman, and they'd still lose by a landslide. We'll have to look for greener fields than that one. When it comes to statewide politics, it's the more populous south against the more entrenched north, but in either case the candidate will be an ultraliberal. They no longer feel the need for moderation. I don't see much chance that a Democrat could knock off any one of the unholy trinity of Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein, let alone a Republican. Running against them is so tough that Arianna Huffington's Republican candidate husband turned gay from the shock of his loss and the sight of his wife's face. Maybe I should run. Can you come up with, say, $60 million dollars or so? At least I have good relations with the Hispanic community, which is more than most of the major California Republican officeholders can say.
Chuck, are you going to be at a local tea party? If so, where?
Nor should being President be an episode of the Twilight Zone.
Forgive me for going off on a tangent, but have you noticed the latest leftist rant about teabagging? Conservatives are calling it teabagging using the historical perspective of the Boston Tea Party, which is for the most part valid (except I don't think they had tea bags in those days). The left is of course upset because for them teabagging has an entirely different, obscene meaning, which I won't go into here. Every time they hear the phrase teabagging invoked, they snigger like little immature schoolkids (Beavis & Butthead come to mind, saying "they said teabagging, heh, heh!). You'd think that we were trying to hijack the meaning of a word or phrase for our own purposes, like "gay", which you can't use any more to denote happiness because of the homosexual references. I imagine that if we knuckle under and start using "tea parties" instead, the leftists will come up with something to bring to mind 80-year old Aunt Henrietta and her vapid friends at tea time with scones, tea thingys and little fingers stuck in the air.
Brillant, Chuck! Unfortunately, Americans pay more attention to pop culture, it's catchy phrases and pop tunes than to discussion about what history and economics have demonstrated relative to the kind of unbridled government spending we are witnessing under this Democratic leadership.. So, go for it! The basic tenet of successful communication is know your audience and speak their language. They may not like it, but they'll get the point!
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If I had $60 million, I'd be all in.
Funny song, pity the Obama song got pulled because some people don't respect copyright laws (as in: parody is allowed) but then again YouTube doesn't follow the Fair Use rules, either (at least were non-conformist thoughts are concerned).
Anyhoo, The Onion has a brilliantly vicious piece of satire on Der One and (esp) the media: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/media_having...
Obama Bought The Presidency
I have three speeches today: Lodi, tea party in Modesto, and Alturas County.
Definition: Tea Party; n – People Protesting who "ACTUALLY PAY" Taxes
History will show the first Quarter of 2009 to be perhaps America's most SELFISH moment. A moment when in insular panic Obama & his 'Progressive' band of Crypto-Marxists, conspired to steal the future wealth & impoverished the lives of countless Future Americans. Damn these BA$TARDS!…
…don't fear the taxes…
When all the pigs can fly!
Obama may be President, but him and his buddies are not the America I know. This moment is all theirs.
Whoever wants to defeat Waxman would have to be incendiary.
Rats. I was hoping for something local.
Great video, there needs to be more like this. Barbara Boxer and the rest of the leftist Bee-eye-itches that seem to come from Ca. need a large dose of this sort of exposure. It's beyond me how and why these Marxists continue to get elected. The Ca. Congressional and Senate delegations are not of any use to the citizens. Do they promote the viability of job producing business, lower taxes, or education that doesn't involve unions? No, they seem to be preoccupied with the acquisition of larger majorities of economy destroying leftist dip-wads, espousing counter productive, incentive destroying policies. Vote Republican!!!!!!!!
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Hey Chuck,
I will be voting for you and I intend to encourage my friends of all political bents to do so as well. Boxer is out of touch with reality in her own state and leans so far left that her entire term is one big festival of socialism and nanny concerns. Thanks for bringing this smelly water issue to our attention. Smelt would die because of Pumps? How about a smaller screen? Paul Rodriguez is absolutely correct and he is very much the stand up guy. I live in LA and now we are in a severe drought. Water rationing is right around the corner. Field workers, farmers, produce distributors and the agri-economy will be hurt even more by the intentional water shortage. And that translates into yet another drain on our bankrupt state plus scarcity of wholsome foods plus higher prices for consumers, The poor will be hurt the most as expensive produce will impact their eating habits and cause malnutrition.
Remember to just vote NO on all 1A-1F ballot propositions come May 19th. If you notice, not one is about water and all are about higher taxes that will only benefit the very people that got us into this mess in the first place! Let's send a message to Sacramento and Governor Girlyman that we are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore.
too bad, I admire Don, but like most liberals, they live in fantasy land!
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