That’s Right Nate

Usually, when I go a day without blogging, it means either I was very busy or I was working on something blog related. I was inspired yesterday to work on a Sarah Palin video. I went so far as to figure out how to get audio from Youtube (as well as video…just not together). My new computer does a great job of taking out vocals and I was going to use it to remove Billy Joel from Say Goodbye to Hollywood. Unfortunately, Billy Joel isn’t that easy to get rid of. When I burned the CD, there were his vocals. I tried a karaoke backing track, but it kept in too many backgrounds competing with my lyrics.

You guys definitely missed out. I will say, my singing voice is amazing. I have a 9 octave range and I consider myself one of the last of the great singer songwriters. Here are the song lyrics that I would have sung:

Sarah’s headin’ to Wasilla tonight
Left behind her spa class tanning bed.
Playing point guard on this team, call a screen
Higher calling’s what she said.
Say goodbye to Anchorage
Say goodbye, my baby
Say goodbye to Anchorage
Say goodbye you betcha.

Quitting’s not something easy to do
But the press has been so mean everywhere
She’s like MJ quitting the Bulls
When he decided baseball was his career
Say goodbye to Anchorage
Say goodbye, my baby
Say goodbye to Anchorage
Say goodbye, you betcha

Chorus:
Movin’ on is a chance you take
When you decide to run – for governor
You get one chance to run
Then you find that the chance you had
Is gone forever
Forever

So many people quit every day
Shelley Long
Comes to mind for leaving Cheers
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
You know Brett Favre retires every year.
Say goodbye to Anchorage
Say goodbye, my baby
Say goodbye to Anchorage
Say goodbye, you betcha

There’s a video of Billy Joel doing the original here, if you’re not familiar with the song. Needless to say, it was your loss.

I decided instead to make a montage, but between getting new blank CDs, finding pictures, editing, playing with a few new toys, and then dealing with Youtube’s obnoxious copyright policy where music is concerned, you’re looking at about 15 hours work. Phew.

[This is a guest op-ed from Representative Jack Kimble (R-CA).  Representative Kimble felt very strongly about this topic and asked if I would allow him my forum.   I agreed.  This is not something that will happen very often, but I was delighted to have a Representative post his thoughts on here.  You can visit Mr. Kimble on his own blog. ]

My friends, I would like to thank Nate for giving me this forum to discuss a topic that is very important to me.

[Reposted from my blog]
I was having a great day. My Fox 15 thing was a big hit and I got some good me time. So I’m sitting down eating dinner and I get this call from Johnny B. Now Boehner never calls during dinner time so I’m immediately alarmed. “Did you see Olbermann last night?” he asks me.

“No,” I said, “Its recess. Get your head out of all that politics stuff.”

“Its Virginia,” he shot back, “Olbermann slammed Virginia.”

Now, I was pissed. It seems as usual Keith Olbermann got only half the story and decided to jump to all sorts of conclusions. He told everybody that Eric Cantor got this idea that we would ambush the freshman Democrats when they spoke in Congress. Then we’d interrogate them and make them look foolish so that we could win partisan points and we would post this on Youtube. In fact, Eric Cantor’s staff wrote our questions for us.

In reality, this idea started with me. My idea was water balloons. I thought it’d be cool, when we were all walking out, if we’d have our staff pelt them with water balloons and we’d post it on Youtube. It’d be so awesome because they’d be like “I’m a congressman, but I’m all wet. I don’t look dignified at all. Help!”

Eric liked the idea a lot, but he figured the odds of all the freshman walking out at the same time was pretty small and people would tip off the Dems if all our staffers were outside holding water balloons. Our initial questions were wacky like when I was giving Betsey Markey the whole “Is your refrigerator running” shtick. Then Pelosi gave us a major tongue lashing for wasting Congress’s time. Grrrr! I hate that woman. Now all that we’re left with are boring policy questions. Cantor’s staff was at least nice enough to write them for us.

Hazing the freshmen is nothing new. Cantor himself used to have to shave Dennis Hastert’s back every Friday morning. I’m told that in the 19th century they used to make the freshmen reps where beanies. This sort of thing builds character. We’ve even been pretty lenient with the binge drinking with this class. So where does Mr. Keith Olbermann get off? I already told all of you about what Dick Cheney made me do.

Anyway, I made my own video of Virginia Foxx. I am hoping that this will cheer her up. I think you’ll like it more than Olbermann’s lame video of our “hazing” followed by my video for Virginia.  Unfortunately, Youtube wouldn’t take it and I can’t figure out how to put a blogger video on here so here’s the link to my article on my blog.

I really didn’t think we could do it.  With the economy, two wars, the energy crisis, and so on I figured we were dead in the water, but with Karl Rove working his magic we somehow find outselves back on top where we belong.  I made a montage to celebrate.