When I first heard the political satire troupe the Capitol Steps in college, I assumed they were a bunch of wacky liberals'cause, I mean, aren't they all? (P.J. O'Rourke hadn't been invented yet, or at least I'd never heard of him). However, it turns out they were (and I assume, still are) mostly Republican. That was a very strange revelation, since all their songs that I liked were making fun of Republicans. (I still remember word for word their parody of Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" that ended, "How does it feel to be an 80s man? With a Miami tan? And be a Reagan fan? A Re-pub-li-cannnnn.") To put it another way, the Capitol Steps are a wily bunch of bastards, and over the last 30 years and as many albums they've morphed into whatever American politics needed them to be. - Steve Palopoli sanjose.com
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When I first heard the political satire troupe the Capitol Steps in college, I assumed they were a bunch of wacky liberals'cause, I mean, aren't they all? (P.J. O'Rourke hadn't been invented yet, or at least I'd never heard of him). However, it turns out they were (and I assume, still are) mostly Republican. That was a very strange revelation, since all their songs that I liked were making fun of Republicans. (I still remember word for word their parody of Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" that ended, "How does it feel to be an 80s man? With a Miami tan? And be a Reagan fan? A Re-pub-li-cannnnn.") To put it another way, the Capitol Steps are a wily bunch of bastards, and over the last 30 years and as many albums they've morphed into whatever American politics needed them to be. - Steve Palopoli sanjose.com
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