Bush & Company

George Tenet warned, amid protest,

Saddam intel was weak, at best,

While Vice just waved it all away

And when it was put to the test---

No WMD, said David Kay---

The veep just blamed the CIA:

That faulty info must, he said,

Be dumped right down on George's head.

Pity, George had changed his mind

Before he ultimately resigned.

Well, now he's publishing a book---

How sweet revenge for one forsook!

Hopeful Romney hoped to show

The NRA he's not their foe;

But when he got caught in a lie,

He gave it still another try.

It shouldn't be much of a blow---

It's typical politico;

Doesn't everybody know

That most of them are just a ho?

A pardon may be on the way;

It could happen any day,

Or it could be far away,

But Scooter needs it, anyway.

A couple things may have been said:

Like a promise and a threat.

In any instance, there's a debt

That some might think ought to be paid.

Scoot's the one who holds the key

To certain persons staying free.

How will it go? It's simple, bro---

This way or that, most probably.

If Dick and Karl stay off the hook

While Scooter's rotting in the slam,

Just look out for a tell-all book,

If my prediction's worth a damn,

But only if George is unkind

And Scooter's cruelly left behind;

He gave his all for Vice's sake---

What a sacrifice to make---

Just how much should one guy take?

He lied in court, that so-and-so,

He's one of them, I know, I know,

In on it all, but even so. . .

All those expressions used today
By journalist and politician

With such authority one might

Believe they were their own invention

(Though it wasn't their intention)

On ABC, radio and cable,

Reported day and prime time night

About what's currently "on the table."

On the one "side of the aisle,"

Says George, we're "going forward," while

"A firestorm" now on the way

May come at the end of the day."

The president's spawnerd a spate of phrases,

Words and mottos through his phases:

"Stay the course" and "cut and run,"

"War president," too; then "the decider"

Switched to "the decision maker,"

With immigration now "migration."

"Victory" became "success";

Still, nothing's said like "I confess."

A favorite one rimes with invade;

It goes like this: "Mistakes were made."

Will White House brass ever rephrase

And finally call a spade a spade?