You’re the President of the United States and the world is imploding around you.  The Middle East is on fire, Americans are trapped in Libya and are in mortal danger, over 20 % of your citizens are unemployed, and you are desperately trying to hide your involvement in encouraging anarchy by America’s Public Service Unions.  What do you do?

Well, heck.  You throw a Motown party at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Last night John Legend, Seal, Jamie Foxx, Nick Jonas,Sheryl Crow along with actual Motown performers and musical pioneers Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder performed for the Royal, err, I mean, First Couple, at their Palace, err, I mean, the People’s House in celebration of Black History Month.

Foxx, Seal, Legend and Jonas started the Par-tahy by taking turns as backup dancers, complete with some smooth dance moves to the Motown classics: “Get Ready,” “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “Can’t Get Next to You” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.”

Then, a very pale comparison of the great Supremes, the trio of Natasha Bedingfield, Jordin Sparks and Ledisi tried to sing “Stop! In the Name of Love.”

The very talented Legend channeled Marvin Gaye and sang “Heard It Through the Grapevine”.

Jamie Foxx, searching for relevance, proclaimed that nowadays the story was more likely to be “heard it through my Twitter.”

He quipped:

I’m going to tweet it right now.

Nero fiddled.

In honor of Scooter’s Motown par-tahy last night and the problem of State Democratic Senators fleeing their states, instead of participating in votes on trimming their states’ budgets, I’ve written a little  ditty, with apologies to legendary R & B artist Robert Parker:

FLEEBAGGIN’

State Senators had an idea that’s pretty neat,

You gotta vote when you’re in your seat.

They jumped  in their cars and hit the street,

Across the state line, they’re gonna meet.

They’re fleebaggin’.  They’re fleebaggin’.

They’re fleebaggin’.  They’re fleebaggin’.

The Union Bosses, they called them up,

Said don’t ‘cha know who fills your cup,

If you know what’s good for you,

Gettin’ out-of-state is what you will do.

They’re fleebaggin’.  They’re fleebaggin’.

They’re fleebaggin’.  They’re fleebaggin’.

Governor Walker and Daniels, too,

Are trying to figure out what to do.

To get them back, they’ve got to try,

Daniels pleaded, he might have cried.

They’re fleebaggin’.  They’re fleebaggin’.

They’re fleebaggin’.  They’re fleebaggin’.

American voters are gettin’ mad.

The dems’ future is gonna be bad.

2012 is almost here,

There’ll be a lot of cryin’ in their beer.

They’re Fleebaggin’.  They’re Fleebaggin’.

They’re Fleebaggin’.   They’re Fleebaggin’.

They’re Fleebaggin’.    They’re Fleebaggin’.

They’re Fleebaggin’.  They’re Fleebaggin’.

They’re Fleebaggin’.

To close, here’s the legendary Mr. Robert Parker, performing his hit at his induction in 2007 into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.  Enjoy.