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More on Bushie's Education Policy in Rhymed Verse
“Another Child Left Behind”
“Applauding Junior Colleges”  (No Moon At All)
“Bush Flagellation”
“Educational Reforms”
“Laura's Big Help”  (Gee, Officer Krupke)
“No Mullah Left Behind”
“Who's For Sale?”  (Love For Sale)


No dough at all for your school.
Why believe me when I say that you'll
Get two years of college? April Fool.
You'll get no dough at all.

No dough at all – times are rough.
Cribbing from now on is on the cuff.
We'd have helped you but there's not enough –
There is no dough at all.

You'd love the atmosphere,
And get good training here.
You'd have a great career,
But money's tight so drink your beer.

No dough at all – not quite true,
But I didn't budget much for you,
And we've outsourced the jobs you'd learn to do –
It's like no dough at all.

* The Washington Post - 3/3/05
"President Touts Junior College Worldforce Training"

Music & Original Lyric by
Redd Evans & Dave Mann
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
3/3/05

 To 'Himself - Prevaricator'


Jeb Bush is a genius, just like his brother –
   When Gonzales OK'd flagellation,
Using toll-free long distance, they persuaded each other
   of its merits vs. decapitation.

So George passed the word to that neocon nerd
   that Rummy has working for him,
That the new party line says flag waving is fine
   while letting them tear limb from limb.

Though he had been clued, Jeb, too, misconstrued
   what was meant by the word flagellation,
Which, like it or not, mistakenly got
   mixed up in the Bushie translation.

Still under duress from their botched ballot mess,
   Jeb's officials were led to assume
The flags Florida flies must be a mandated size
   in each left-behind kiddy's classroom.

But right-behind kiddies it seems
   weren't exempt from his flag waving schemes
And got one to take home along with a poem
   extolling both Bushie regimes.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
1/15/05



Gee, Officer Bushke! You got to understand
That ours is not the tushke that needs your helping hand.
Our president's a liar –
His tushke's catching fire –
But it's awful nice of you to suddenly inquire.

Gee, Officer Bushke, you heard we're upset
About the hosin' that we're hearin' we are gonna get.
Not by local coppers –
We been there before.
What's gonna happen to us punks in twenty-forty-four?

Gee, Officer Bushke, suppose he's in charge
Of companies whose stocks we're into, buyin' large –
He ain't done so good at
Anything he's done before,
Excep' to pick an officer whose tushke we adore.

* NY Times - 2/3/05
"President Plans Anti-Gang Initiative"

Music by Leonard Bernstein
Original Lyric by Stephen Sondheim
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
2/3/05


'No Mullah Left Behind' is better
   funded than that big vote-getter,
   'No Child Left Behind', that Bush marquees.
Why won't he spend the dollars needed
   to guarantee kids have succeeded
   instead of helping Powell sell TVs?

And why help raise the price of oil
   so fewer mullahs need to toil
   to rank with Forbes's mullah millionaires?
If he'll raise taxes at the pump,
   we'll use less; crude costs won't jump;
   and we won't be the answer to their prayers.

Instead gas taxes that we paid
   could supply much needed aid
   to 'No Child Left Behind' and not a mullah.
Junior's Pop might not approve.
   He'll want to see his son's lips move,
   but that's a horse of quite a diff'rent color.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
10/11/04