As published for Politico on December 22, 2009:

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the Senate
Every Member was pissed, from Wyden to Bennett.

The charts were displayed near the well with care
In hopes that Fox News would put them on air.

The lobbyists were nestled cheek to jowel in the hall
In hopes their retainers would never be small.

And Pelosi in Armani with her posse a-swarming
Had just taken off for Copenhagen and global warming.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter
Reid sprang from the Chamber to see what was the matter

Knocking over an easel and tripping a page
He assumed the minority was the source of his rage.

The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow
Added $100 million more to the cost of the Visitors Center below.

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