Barbara Boxer: All She Wants to Do is Tax

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.