The Newest Colossus: Harry Reid's Tribute to the Lower Classes

© 2008, by The Conservative Muse

With sincere apologies to Emma Lazarus, whose poem,

“The New Colossus,” is inscribed at the base of the Statue of

Liberty and serves as the template for the following):

Not like that lady of Ellis Isle fame

Whose glowing torch beckons to U.S. lands,

The Capitol Visitors Center stands

To herd those common folk without a name

Away from Congress royals to that shame

Of colossal waste by government hands:

Like gas from blowhard lawmakers expands,

Its budget tripled with none to take blame.

 

This welcome message does the Center tell:

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled mass

of sweating tourists stinking to high hell,

your wretched refuse of the middle class

Offending Harry Reid’s keen sense of smell.

We grant you entry, not rights to harass

The lords at work for whom you voted well.”