Just picked this up on Silliman's Blog -- a link to the National Review, which has a nice Chaucer pastiche about the California elections:
Among us was a TERMINATOR bold,
A player who on many a stage had strold.
Ful big he was of braun, and eke of bone
A manly man, ful wyth testosteroun... &tc. &tc.
Read the rest at:
John Derbyshire on California Recall on National Review Online