Mandatory Tissues
Buried in The Baucus Bill

Mandatory facial tissues!
    Cloth is not an option.
Kids with runny noses?
    Almost all up for adoption…

Linen handkerchiefs are out.
    Cotton is verboten
As are any other fabrics
    Max probably's forgotten.

You wonder where we learned all this?
    It's in the Baucus Bill.
That section where sleeve-sneezing's banned –
    bipartisan goodwill.

It's like universal health insurance
    you'll be forced to buy
Unless you're in the Congress
    or your last name is Karzai,

Or you're a bottom-kissing lobbyist
    who's been assured by Max
That Rangel will exempt you all
    from any tissue tax.

Max claims the fines are minimal:
    a dime each errant blow.
They'll be counting unused tissues
    if you're wond'ring how they'll know.

Of course the only tissue source
    is going to be Blue Cross,
In case you've any doubts concerning
    who is Max's boss.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
10/12/09

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