The decision by the Obama administration to replace the Star-Spangled Banner

with the song 'Trees' from the Hemispheres album by the band Rush as the national

anthem has been met with confusion and surprise. "Seriously?" said Diane

Feinstein, D-CA, echoing the comments of many in Congress. New York Senator

Chuck Schumer sounded a note of concern. "How can the United States

national anthem be written by a band from Calanda?" he asked during an afternoon

press conference. 'Trees' struck even some members of the Obama cabinet as

an unusual choice. "Now there's no more oak oppression, because they've passed

a nbole law,"  Treasury Secretary Timothery Geitner recited, "and the trees are

all kept equal by hatchet, axe and saw.' I mean, that's Neal Peart doing his Ayn

Rand thing, isn't it? Like 'Red Barchetta', or that movie The Incredibles. I always

thought 'Trees' was more, I don't know, right than left. But, hey, if Obama wants

me to sing it at ballgames, you know what? Call me Geddy Lee."