Hail To The Chief
Tough luck Angela Merkel, baby

Three cheers for our brave president!
    Obama's called their bluff.
Forget those golden parachutes.
    A parasol's enough.
Perhaps a well-used Hummer
    so Rick drives away in style.
He'll love its fuel efficiency
    at twenty bucks a mile.

Bondholders, moaning, groaning,
    should have bailed out when they could
Have gotten something on the dollar
    instead of hoping Barack would
Let Goldman Sachs alumni
    like Hank Paulson call the shots,
Instead of making some who had
    join all of us have nots.

Exxon says that they'll miss Rick.
    They're sorry that he's gone,
But hoping what he did to us
    he'll also do to Bonn,
Where Merkel's anti-stimuli
    although they're in the red;
Where losing bail-out trickle-downs
    is now her biggest dread.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
3/30/09

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