Congressman John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, recited a poem parody of “The Night Before Christmas” on the House floor last night, in response to a resolution proposed by Republicans to “protect” the “symbols and traditions of Christmas.” Demagogue has the text, and Crooks & Liars has the video.

I hope this War on Christmas ends sometime during my lifetime. Christmas just isn’t any fun anymore with all the elves locked up in Abu Ghraib and St. Nick stuck in a spider hole. I say we launch a preemptive strike on Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and take them out. Let’s not wait until Dec. 25 for that mushroom cloud over Macy’s.

Free the reindeer!

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