Head in the sand
Down on his farm,
Then just an aisle seat view.

Some waters rise"
What a surprise!
Rove said, "They'll part for you."

Grabbed "My Pet Goat" to
Read on the boat to
Victims who'll board two by two,

Their blood on his hands,
With hidden sidearms,
And as like as not
An "Adieu."

Music by Vincent Youmans
Original Lyric by Harold Adamson & Mack Gordon
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/2/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'
To 'Policies - Security'
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More of Bush's Domestic Disasters
 (Also see 'Co-conspirators - FEMA')
“Are Your Premiums Up”  (Are You Lonesome Tonight?)
“Blackwater”
“Bush Defends Brownie”  (Gimme A Little Kiss, Will Ya,Huh?)
“Bush Flies Over New Orleans”  (Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?)
“Bush, The Almighty”  (My Old Flame)
“Bushie's Housing Bubble Bursts”  (Glad Rag Doll)
“Can't Believe He's Back In Town”  (Lulu's Back In Town)
“Cheney's Latest Aneurysm”  (Who's Sorry Now)
“CNN Is Counting Again”  (Always True To You In My Fashion)
“Confessing To Jeb”  (Brother, Can You Spare A Dime)
“Constituents, Listen To Me”  (Oh, Gentlemen, Listen, I Pray)
“Friendly Skies”  (I'm Beginning To See The Light)
“Gimme A Little Press”  (Gimme A Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh)
“Give Back Your Pork”  (Take Back Your Mink)
“God Must Not Like Him”  (Somebody Loves Me)
“Halliburton, Bechtel, Kellogg, Brown And Root”  (On The Atchison, Topeka...)
“Head In The Sand”  (Time On My Hands)
“How Many Storms?”  (Blowin' In The Wind)
“I'm Yellow”  (Tit Willow)
“If Bush Had A Hammer”  (If I Had A Hammer)
“Katrina Secrets”  (Secret Love)
“Kerplunkin'”  (Shipoopi)
“Luck, Prove The President's Right”  (Luck Be A Lady Tonight)
“Media Control”  (Somebody Loves Me)
“No Cohesion”  (Manhattan)
“Ophelia”  (Cecelia)
“Pleasing Pa”  (What Have They Done To My Song,Ma?)
“Priorities”  (Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans)
“Protecting Our Ports”  (My Heart Belongs To Daddy)
“Rummy To Replace FEMA”  (Honeysuckle Rose)
“Sediment”  (Sentiment)
“So He Shot”  (You're The Top)
“The Fat Lady Sings”  (Sing For Your Supper)
“The Great Pretender”  (The Great Pretender)
“The New Presidential Medal Waltz”  (After The Ball)
“The Trouble With Harry”  (My Heart Belongs To Daddy)
“Three Little FEMA Fools”  (Three Little Maids From School)
“Uh New Orleans”  (Little Darlin')
“Who's Sorry Now?”  (Who's Sorry Now)
“Why Worry 'Bout Me?”  (Don't Worry 'Bout Me)



Are your premiums up?
Am I keeping them up?
Are you finding that paying 'em's hard?
Was your home blown away,
Or washed, as they say?
Is your roof, or your house, in your yard?

Is the beach in your parlor inappropriate there?
Are the stairs to your upstairs going nowhere?
How much proof do I need
Before I'll concede
Global warming is whipping storms up?

Music by Lou Handman
Original Lyric by Roy Turk
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/25/05

To 'Bush's Policies - The Environment'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Blackwater, Blackwater,
The answer to his prayer?
Blackwater, Blackwater,
How dangerous you're there.

Confronting ciminals with hymnals –
What? You say that isn't you?
You're paid lackeys in Bush khakis?
Who'd you say was your guru?
Blackwater, Blackwater,
Stay the hell away.

Blackwater, Blackwater,
Conservative as hell –
Blackwater, Blackwater,
Liberty's death knell.

Your boss gave dough to Tom DeLay
And financed Rick Santorum.
His sister married into Amway –
Now there's an influential quorum.
Blackwater, Blackwater,
Stay the hell away.

Blackwater, Blackwater,
Three hundred bucks a day?
Blackwater, Blackwater,
To keep bad guys at bay?

That's why we have the National Guard,
The State Police and local cops –
But mercenaries in our yard?
Let's hope it's for Bush photo ops.
Blackwater, Blackwater,
Stay the hell away.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/30/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'


"Why pick a guy like Brown," people ask.
"Isn't someone aroun' up to the task?"
Gosh, oh, gee, I suppose there is,
But most would tell me how to run my biz.

There won't be another storm for a while
Why not see what he can do?
He's managed ev'rything so well you'd think he was Rummy's cuz,
Plus nobody knows Arabians as well as Brownie does.

So give him a little rope, will ya, huh,
And hope that he knows what to do.

Music by Maceo Pinkard
& Original Lyric by Roy Turk
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/8/05

To 'Co-conspirators - FEMA'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Don't they know what it means
When I buzz New Orleans
And show them I still don't know
What has gone wrong,
Why their anger's getting stronger,
The longer I've taken to show?

I've been taken aback,
It's so much like Iraq
Where looters surprised me so.
And who could forsee
That like the lazy Mississippi
I wouldn't know where to go?

The spreading of the bayou,
The smelly smoke that fills the air –
To think that a single typhoon
Could ruin a brave Texan's prayer

To ignore what it means
To buzz New Orleans,
Not knowing where to start,
For there's more that I miss,
Like my vacation,
Than I will miss New Orleans.

Music & Original Lyric by
Eddie de Lange & Louis Alter
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/2/05

To 'Bush - The Loser'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


I'm so vain.
Most other religions complain.
Don't they know I speak for God,
And that no one's called the bunco squad
About my reign?

I'm so vain.
Their Allah's no longer germane.
There's no way he'll stand a chance –
Why he still lets his ladies belly dance,
Which I disdain.

New Orleans was for me a fascinating haze
Of fascinating gays I despise,
Some who would have tried to surprise
Us born agains with love,
A little push and shove –

So profane!
That's not allowed in my domain.
And they'll never try again
To woo God-Money-Down-The-Drain,
Or I'll raise Caine.

Music by Sam Coslow
Original Lyric by Arthur Johnston
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/18/05

To 'Bush - Holier Than Thou'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Verse
Built to please a Bushie,
Designed by, we suppose,
A friend he found he thought up to the task.
The little it'll cost you?
Ev'ry buyer knows
You can't afford it if you need to ask.

Chorus
Stonewalled up
French mansion –
Why borrow for an expansion?
This place has got it all.

Two fish ponds,
One small brook
He says babbles gobble-de-gook
With a slight south Texan drawl.

It's the kind of place
   you'll feel OK with.
Just phone to let him know
   which card you will pay with

You can speak
Castilian?
His price to you, two point two million,
If you can close this Fall.

Music by Dan Dougherty & Milton Ager
Original Lyric by Jack Yellen
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
8/28/06

To 'Bushie's Domestic Disasters'


Gotta cut his long vacation short –
Hates to use the word but he must 'abort' –
Calling for his help? It's a last resort –
Can't believe he's back in town.

Couldn't stop the looting in Baghdad –
Why'd he think New Orleans wouldn't be as bad?
To have to count on Junior is incredibly sad –
Can't believe he's back in town.

You can tell those who loot
That he claims he'll give a hoot,
And ask somebody else to shoot
As soon as he is out-of-town.

Gotta show us all who's in command,
Wishes he knew how to lend a helping hand.
But once again things haven't gone as planned.
Can't believe he's back in town.

Music by Harry Warren
Original Lyric by Al Dubin
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
1/17/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'
To 'Policies - Security'


Who's worried now?
Who's worried how
His Halliburton
Is certain to vow
Not to accrue
What some construe
As an advantage to do
What in the end
Most will contend
Was due to Cheney somehow?
Should surgery fail,
Who'll go their bail?
Who'll vow to build their hoosegow?

Music by Rube Bloom
Original Lyric by Burt Kalmar & Harry Ruby
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/17/05

To 'Co-conspirators - Cheney'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Though Lou Dobbs for CNN
Is counting once again,
This time the days that Judy stays in jail,
The Judy-days-in-jail pale in comparison
With the days since Robert Novak's shrill betrayal.

If we have to hear a count
As the days of myst'ry mount,
Why not count the days that no-count bum stays free?
And CNN could show some real compassion
If they'd say which fool won't fire that S.O.B.

Here's another count we'd like –
Days till Chertoff takes a hike,
Admitting it was his and Brownie's goof,
That Bush's plan is more P.R. rehashin',
That David Brooks's column is a spoof.

Music & Original Lyric by Cole Porter
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
7/15/05

To 'Co-conspirators - Novak'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Once I was our daddy's fav'rite son.
Got me in the Guard just in time.
Then I found the Guard was not much fun.
In and out on Daddy's dime.

So I sent a soldier with a gun,
Telling her to torture big time.
Albert says they'll think she's having fun.
Harriet knows it's no crime.

We dismantled FEMA from day one.
Harriet was in her prime.
Knew our buddy Brownie'd come undone.
How's that for a stitch in time?

Then I named a justice they can't shun,
Who I've known a long, long time.
Knew I'd always be her Number One,
Always her partner in crime.

Counted on DeLay to get it done.
Who knew graft was a crime?
Harriet says I should cut and run,
Not admit I backed his climb.

Sorry to hear Wilma's in Can-cun,
Gonna give you guys a hard time.
Harriet is still my hired gun –
Pray you never need a dime.

Music by Jay Gorney
Original Lyric by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
10/22/05

To 'To 'Domestic Disasters'
To 'To 'Policies - Courts'


Constituents, listen to me,
   tho' my love for all wars is far ranging,
On HD-TV you can see
   the side that's been winning's been changing.
So when storms in The Gulf both hit land –
   for some claim I've altered the climate –
My brother and I thought it grand,
   the way God had managed to time it.

We used to be very concerned
   about hurricanes hitting Florida,
But as TV watchers have learned,
   storms hitting The Gulf can be horrida.
New Orleans was ravaged by FEMA.
   Brown slowed refining resumption.
Mississippii looked like Hiroshima.
   Motorists cut back consumption.

And fortunately folks were too distraught to think
   about my debacle, Iraq –
To realize Rummy and I have no inkling
   As to when we can bring our boys back.
So like 9/11 it gives us a chance
   to play upon ev'ryone's sorrow,
And say, "S'il vous plait, go to hell, France.
   We're starting a new war tomorrow."

Music by Arthur Sullivan
Original Lyric by W. S. Gilbert
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
10/8/05

To 'Bush - Warrior Wimp'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


I've always been big on alibis,
Missed perceptions and bald-faced lies,
But now that the British have secured our skies
I am grinning with all my might.

I love the reimbursement of Big Oil dough
After each anticipated Gulf Shore blow.
Though Chertoff will be unprepared and not in the know,
I'll be grinning with all my might.

Chertoff's gamble that his arks
Can be auctioned as to where each parks
With naming rights for sale as each embarks
Has got to be the cat's meow.

Democrats who fly with cans of turpentine
Stand accused of helping to fuel Palestine.
Don't you feel secure with Cheney's morning line
That I'm grinning with all my might?

Music by Duke Ellington
Original Lyric by Don George
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
8/10/06

To 'Bushie's Domestic Disasters'
To 'Bushie's Terrorists'


Can ya see my digital finger?
Can ya, huh?
Not like my butt in a wringer,
The first time, huh?

Can't ya see
Me pluggin' the levee leak?
Where's my FEMA?
I've been here a week.

Gimme a little press,
Will ya, huh?
Why can't I be like Anderson Cooper, too?
And make like I'm Geraldo
   doing a stunt for Fox,
Or, if you think Sharon is watching,
   sharing a little lox?

Aw, gimme a world that's warmer,
Will ya, huh?
And I'll promise a stonger storm fer you.

Music by Maceo Pinkard
Original Lyric by Roy Turk
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/24/05

To 'Bush's Policies - The Environment'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


You did your budget cut
   thing and we know
Pork wasn't among those
   you chose to forego.
Now that Rove's FEMA
   needs funds for relief,
Your plans to finance it
   will give us more grief.
You'll try cutting taxes
   to favor the rich,
And retire with your pensions
   Inspiring our bitch:

"Give back your pork.
Give back that bridge.
Damn you, re-cork,
And give back a smidge.

"Give back your perks
Your trips and free lunch.
We'll find more jerks,
Better'n your bunch.

"You think that is going to be
   hard to arrange?
Well, you're due for a heck of a shock.
There's millions more like us
   who'd favor a change,
Who'd love to clean Congress's clock.

"So give back those minks
They bought for your spouse.
The thought of them stinks
Up the Senate and House.

"Don't be a dork –
Assist refugees
By giving back pork
And not learning Chinese."

Music & Original Lyric by Frank Loesser
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/18/05

To 'Co-conspirators - Congress'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Bush claims God told him,
Bushwhack Iraq,
Then look for WMDs.

Could Bush's mem'ry
Be losing track?
Why would God be such a tease?

Then compound the problem
   by suggesting
Brown for FEMA,
   but be jesting?

Bush thinks God loves him.
Well, whoop-de-doo –
No sign
That's true!

Music by George Gershwin
Original Lyric by
B.G. DeSylva & Ballard MacDonald
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/10/05

To 'Bush - Holier Than Thou'
To 'Co-conspirators - FEMA'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Do you see who's always first in line?
We figure they can smell another monkeyshine
With outlandish markups which is the strong suit
Of Halliburton, Bechtel, Kellogg, Brown and Root.

Storms and wars arising at Bush's end –
They know he can be counted on to be their friend
And make it easy for some firms to get more loot,
Like Halliburton, Bechtel, Kellogg, Brown and Root.

Here they come,
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh –
FEMA better rig the bid.
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh –
If we don't, their quid pro quo will yield less quid.

We will need their dough around election time,
And they know how to give it so it's not a crime,
So contributions aren't a Tom DeLay crapshoot
With Halliburton, Bechtel, Kellogg, Brown and Root.

Music by Harry Warren
Original Lyric by Johnny Mercer
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/30/05

To 'Co-conspirators - Congress'
To 'Domestic Disasters'
To 'Policies - Greed & Corruption'


How many storms must an idiot see
   from two thousand feet in the air?
How many days must an incumbent stall
   before we all see he's not there?
How many floods must he visit with friends
   to show CNN he can care?
One problem is he grinned and didn't look chagrined,
And now he's blowin' in the wind.

How many wars must an idiot start
   before he must cease and desist?
How many foes can he torture and maim
   when they can no longer resist?
How many boys will not be coming back
   because of the wars he'll insist
Are only against the Muslims who have sinned,
Whose Allah is blowing in the wind?

How many hacks and old friends will he hire,
   cronies whose experience is none?
How many firms won't have bid for their jobs
   to reconstruct the damage he's done?
How many tots who have not yet been born
   will be bailing out this son of a gun?
The problem you'll find is incumbents who don't mind
And still don't know they're blowin' in the wind.

Music & Original Lyric by Bob Dylan
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/26/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'


On that nine-eleven a famous nit wit
Sang "Yellow, I'm yellow, I'm yellow."
And they said, "Mr. President, why do you sit
Singing 'Yellow, I'm yellow, I'm yellow.'?

"After all you've been told, did you think that they lied?
Or, unlike Cheney, have you no place to hide?"
"Yes, to both questions, plus I'm not qualified,
I'm yellow, I'm yellow, I'm yellow."

Then he favored them all with his patented smirk
Singing "Yellow, I'm yellow, I'm yellow.
And if you'd asked The Guard, they'd have said I'm a jerk
Who is yellow, so yellow, quite yellow.

"I suspect I'd have made an incredible nun
And to make matters worse I'm no good with a gun,
Then having said that, he slipped on Air Force One
Singing "Yellow, I'm yellow, I'm yellow."

But in subsequent photo ops he has denied
Singing "Yellow, I'm yellow, I'm yellow",
Though those who were there say he looked petrified
Singing "Yellow, I'm yellow, I'm yellow."

So we'll have to await future history books
To see if he's known for his petrified looks,
And if he, like Cheney, was one of those schnooks
Singing "Yellow, I'm yellow, I'm yellow."

Music by Arthur Sullivan
Original Lyric by W. S. Gilbert
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
10/4/05

To 'Bush, The Coward'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


If Bush had a hammer
To hammer in New Orleans,
A hammer with a handle,
Would he understand
A handle's for swinging
The head of the hammer?

A hammer's for swinging,
Not for tapping and dinging,
When you need to grandstand.

Music & Original Lyric by Lee Hays & Pete Seeger
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
10/14/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'


Must I keep a secret of
An intestinal snafu
As Katrina gathered strength,
Even when it blew and blew?

Say you lose track where you are,
Like we drinkers often do,
It still seems a bit bizarre
Waking up in the wrong pew.

So perhaps I sounded shrill,
Screaming for a morning after pill,
But I'd seen the place before
And again could be a horrid bore.

Flying over would be slick,
But pills don't kick in quite that quick.
The secret's not just where I was –
Tequila did what roughage does.

Music by Harry Warren
Original Lyrics by Paul Francis Weber
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
1/26/06

To 'Bushie's Domestic Disasters'


Well the forces he used in his first war were
   a clue he's at heart a boozer,
And those he'd lose in his second attempt
   proved him a natural born loser.

But to be a snoozer through his Gulf Coast flood,
Knowing he'd hired a horse judge dud,
While we watched TV and could see him thud
On his kerplunken?
Kerplunkin',
Kerplunkin',
Kerplunkin' on his own kerplunken!

A frightening thing to watch –
A third Bush Junior botch –
The "perfect" president kerplunkin',
Kerplunkin',
Kerplunkin',
Once again on his kerplunken!

Music & Original Lyric by Meredith Willson
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/16/05

To 'Bush's Domestic Disasters'


Luck, prove the president's right –
Luck, prove the president's right –
Luck, if you have ever
   influenced the weather,
Luck, prove the president's right.

Luck, let climatologists see
CO2's not warming the sea –
Or find one who'll inform us
   hurricanes are not enormous
Because of what I still refuse to see.

A president cannot abandon
His Saudi friends to get more votes.
A president can't flip-flop and admit he's wrong,
Although we'll be living in boats.

Luck, it's been a hell of fight
Just to prove that I'm always right.
Luck, no more Katrinas
   and no Wilhelminas –
Luck, can they impeach me
   for what these storms should teach me?
Who needed Rita?
Even incognita?
Luck, prove this president's right!

Music & Original Lyric by Frank Loesser
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/23/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'
To 'Policies - Environment'


Dead bodies? Dear me –
I wonder who
Leaked to Judy that a few might be.

Dead bodies near me?
At least Rove knew
Which to show with me on Fox TV –

Bootlicking politicians who don't blame me,
Though without bath water lots are gamey,

But on a TV
Most can't smell who
We let you view.

Music by George Gershwin
Original Lyric by B.G. DeSylva & Ballard MacDonald
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/8/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'


We lack cohesion –
We're now by-jeezin'
What to do,
And speculating who
Will sue.

They're getting antsy –
Our fancy-pantsy
Crews don't know
If FEMA's dough should go
To eeny meeny miny mo,
Or oh, no –

And tell us whose con
Should build an autobahn
Canal
In which Republican
Locale.

This disaster's the real McCoy
Pray to God you're a good old boy,
Like Halliburton,
A moneymaking ploy.

Music by Richard Rodgers
Original Lyric by Lorenz Hart
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/19/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'


Did he know where you would go, Ophelia?
Did he watch TV and flee, Ophelia?
Golly,did he finally see
That he prob'ly
Couldn't get his act together?

Even if you miss the coast, Ophelia,
Looked like his career was toast, Ophelia.
Why must Brownie
Be the one they lop?
Trickle-down should start at the top.

Music by Dave Dreyer
Original Lyric by Herman Ruby
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/12/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'
To 'Co-conspirators - FEMA'


Look what we've done to their town, Pa.
Look what we've done to their town.
It's a town that offended our religious right
By staying open all night, Pa.
Look what we've done to their town.

Look what we've done to their coast, Pa.
Look what we've done to their coast.
As Haley said, we'll keep it red
And make sure gambling boats are dead.
Look what we've done to their coast.

Watch what we'll do for our friends, Pa.
Watch what we'll do for our friends.
Environmental law that bends
For firms that Cheney recommends –
Watch what we'll do for our friends.

Look how we're quitting Iraq, Pa.
Look how we're quitting Iraq.
FEMA's badly out of whack –
Chance to bring the Army back.
Look how we're quitting Iraq.

Music & Original Lyric by Melanie Safka
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/28/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'
To 'Policies - Greed & Corruption'
To 'Policies - Quitting Iraq'


We'd rebuild New Orleans,
But won't have the means –
My tax cuts will interfere.
Although it's not fair,
The rich are who I care for –
They're there for me every year.

While the media whines
About the gas lines
My policies helped to bring,
They soon will see
I can't stop the Mississippi
From making a new bathtub ring.

To rebuild New Orleans
When I've wasted the means,
Is not for the faint of heart.
Of whom am I fonder?
I'd much rather squander
More on white people of means.

Music by Louis Alter
Original Lyric by Eddie de Lange
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/3/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'
To 'Policies - Security'


Busy cutting brush, is he going to rush
   to deal with a minor diversion?
"So your levee breaks? Why not pull up stakes
   and limit your time of immersion?"

To avoid a repeat of Rove taking the heat
   for appointing incompetent phonies,
Bush plans to export control of each port
   to a firm of Arabian cronies

Yes, a firm of Arabian cronies,
Who've promised a deal for his Dad.
In addition they prob'ly know ponies
Which is not necessarily bad.

With their hands in the till he's sure Congress will
   ignore any prior transgressions.
Those who view 9/11 as a highway to heaven
   shouldn't fear Cheney's hunting obsessions.

Though some terrorists might express their delight
   at compatriots running Bar Harbor,
Will financial gain for all but McCain
   compensate for repeats of Pearl Harbor
In Kennebunkport,
Or only impoverished Bar Harbor?

Music & Original Lyrics by Cole Porter
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
2/18/06

To 'Bushie's Domestic Disasters'
To 'Bushie's Arabian Ports'


Future hurricanes
Need someone with brains,
One whose resumé contains
Proof that he already knows
How a debacle goes:

Generals like Myers,
No one ever fires,
Who don't recognize quagmires,
Enamored of whatever blows
And of Bush sideshows.

Won't need armor –
He'll just have to learn to swim,
Or, like Junior,
Keep swinging from limb to limb.

Are there any pips,
Who have earned pink slips,
Specializing in cow chips?
Hacks and cronies Cheney chose?
Rummy by a nose!

Music by Thomas "Fats" Waller
Original Lyric by Andy Razaf
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/26/05

To 'Co-conspirators - FEMA'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Sediment, it's Bush's sediment
That makes their sins so evident to all.
It keeps news channels humming,
While the president is strumming,
While the levees fall.

Who knew that he could play guitar
   or even carry a tune?
His goal in flying over
   has been terribly misconstrewn –
The Rolling Stones won't hire him
   if he's wrinkled like a prune
From his sediment, that's all.

Sediment, it's Bush's sediment
That makes their sins so evident to all.
The mayor and the gov,
Working hand and glove,
Never got Mike's call.

He would have phoned repeatedly
   but was preoccupied
Trying to determine where
   Cheney chose to hide,
Fearing that he might be
   shovelling against the tide
In the sediment, that's all.

Sediment, it's Bush's sediment
That makes their sins so evident to all.
Like who will get to loot?
Not let FEMA give a hoot?
But let Blackwater shoot?

Whose pals will be permitted
   to make money out of muck?
Don't fool yourself by thinking
   it involves beginner's luck –
Why all the trips in Air Force One?
   Rove fears he's run amok
In his sediment, that's all.

Music & Original Lyric by Noel Coward
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/29/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'

Verse
So angelic, yet an arcane relic
Whose scowl is oft misunderstood,
Like a Michael Jackson style priesthood,
Up to no good
If it could.

With no acumen for acting human
Nor desire to show restraint
He should be rehearsin'
To be a nicer person
Which obviously he ain't.

Chorus
So he shot
A Mahatma Gandhi
From a spot
Where Napoleon brandy
In the Spring or Fall, or any time at all,
Is strange,
But an alcoholic can appear bucolic
Home on the range,

Where a sneer
From a prize tale spinner
And a beer
With the host mule skinner
In the dead of winter won't let a scowling squinter stop,
When the cowboy on the bottom
Wants the top.

Music & Original Lyrics by Cole Porter
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
2/19/06

To 'Bushie's Co-conspirator, Cheney'
To 'Bushie's Domestic Disasters'


Swim for your supper
And you'll be better off, says Barb'ra Bush.
Her heads up her tush, my dears.
Swim off to Houston where she will let you
Sleep on a flimsy cot,
Where like as not you'll stay for years.

She heard from the bird in charge
You're willing to pay your way
Bailing her Bushie's hay –
Three ninety-five a day.

So bail for your supper
And telll her her state is great
Just don't admit you can't wait
To leave
A place where dopes are that naïve.

Music by Richard Rodgers
Original Lyric by Lorenz Hart
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/12/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'


It looks bad for The Great Pretender,
Pretending his reign's going well,
For inasmuch as he's out of touch
He's again failed to answer the bell.

We've all seen how The Great Pretender,
So miffed that he'd go it alone
With a war that became an insurgent shell game,
Used a force Rummy'd pared to the bone.

To feel you can steal oil before you leave,
Is really to steal lives while thousands more grieve –

Sadly The Great Pretender
Wears his grin instead of a frown
Hoping we'll see, while he's trying to flee,
That it won't be just them he's let down.
Remember who watched New Orleans drown.

To spiel how you'll heal and quickly relieve
Storm victims, then turn on your heel and just leave –

Yes, that's The Great Pretender,
Rushing to get out of town,
Hoping we'll see what he told us he'd be,
A worthy successor to Brown,
Before abdicating his crown.

Music & Original Lyric by Buck Ram
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
12/9/05

To 'Bush - The Prevaricator'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


After presenting his medal
To Michaels Chertoff and Brown,
Who will design a new medal
For not letting so many drown?

For not misinforming the country
With lies the way George Tenet did?
For not banning Baathists like Bremer,
For not making contractors bid?

Music & Original Lyric by Charles K. Harris
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/8/05

To 'Co-conspirators - FEMA'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


When goofing off with Mike Chertoff
   whose goofs are now legerdemainy
His metal detector always warns the director
   I have birdshot belonging to Cheney.

When I swim around town with Bushie's Mike Brown
   whose heck of a job's down the drainy,
Though I feel in the pink, I now tend to sink
   because of that birdshot from Cheney

Yes, my birdshot belongs to Cheney
And though I don't feel all that bad,
Like millions of angry Iraqis,
I'm beginning to think I've been had.

For if I complain of occasional pain
   the White House will claim I'm a Daney
And render me where cartoonists don't dare
   to liken Muhammad to Cheney.

I now seldom forget what I'm s'posed to get,
   though not previously thought of as brainy.
Magnetic updaters made for refridgerators
   are a godsend to birds shot by Cheney.

Music & Original Lyrics by Cole Porter
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
2/17/06

To 'Bushie's Co-conspirator, Cheney'
To 'Bushie's Domestic Disasters'


Three little FEMA fools are we,
Late like all FEMA fools should be,
Hoping like hell they won't need we
Three little FEMA fools.

Nothing of course is getting done.
Brownie insists it can't be begun
Until he gets the word from Air Force One –
Three little FEMA fools.

Three FEMA fools who find it scary
When bodies float in a cemetery
That wasn't on our itinerary –
Three little FEMA fools.

One FEMA fool is an ex-Rum-Dum
Two FEMA fools want some Rummy scum
To arrive first and attack the slum –
Three little FEMA fools.

Three FEMA fools won't go away
Now that Junior has agreed to pay
Them and his friends so they all make hay –
Three little FEMA fools.

Music by Arthur Sullivan
Original Lyric by W. S. Gilbert
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
10/3/05

To 'Co-conspirators - FEMA'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
New Orleans,
Uh New Orleans,
So, where'd you go?
My praying
Has been stronger
Than Brownie's
I know –
Uh uh uh uh uh
Showing
I know your levees
That we failed
Should be
Uh uh renewed.

New Orleans,
To keep you
And not disown
Whatever,
Along with bold
Empty promises
Planned to show
How soon till I uh say
Uh hold my hand.

New Orleans,
Could take longer
To try to show you
Uga uga uga uga
Just how well
I tread water,
Uga uga ug and ballyhoo
My help for you.

Music & Original Lyric by Maurice Williams
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
12/14/05

To 'Bush, The Articulate'
To 'Domestic Disasters'


Who's sorry now?
Who's sorry now?
Whose Brownie troop
Proved you didn't know how?

Who's sad and blue?
Who more than you?
Who saw your resumé, too?

Who knew you're slow,
Often don't show,
Yet re-elected you somehow?

Who had a say?
Who stayed a way?
Who's sorry you're sorry now?

Music by Rube Bloom
Original Lyric by Burt Kalmar & Harry Ruby
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/15/05

To 'Domestic Disasters'
To 'Bush, The Dummy'


Why worry 'bout me?
Your National Guard
Is now overseas –
They're fighting my wars.

Though they say my Alamo
Is over, you know
I still must depend
On them every day
Till I find a way
To make the thing end.

So fend for yourself
Is my new rule.
Hurricanes and storm surge
May wipe out quite a few,
But I am no fool.

I know it's damn hard
When your National Guard
Isn't where it should be.
But at least I'm not wet –
Why worry 'bout me?

Music by Rube Bloom
Original Lyric by Ted Koehler
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
8/30/05

To 'Bush - The Loser'
To 'Domestic Disasters'