There is nothing much more tedious than reading a bad ham-handed reference to Talking Heads lyrics.  Such as the case with Paul Krugman:

Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: “Well, how did we get here?” They may tell themselves: “This is not my beautiful Right.” They may ask themselves: “My God, what have we done?”

But their movement is the same as it ever was.

It’s not that those lines can’t be used for this sort of whimsical effect, and indeed I encourage appropriation from “Once In a Lifetime”. But I gather they shouldn’t be altered to a third person perspective. It’s best to keep in second person, or to wind over to first person.

And “This is not my beautify right” as replacement for “wife” simply does not work.

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