The Raving
Are free tans for John Boehner helpful?

Is it weird or merely eerie
    that John flaunts his tanning theory
Before a gang too weak and weary
    to remember what it's for?
Never mind his constant yapping,
    tongue and lips forever flapping,
Otherwise we'd know he's napping,
    with sweet dreams of days of yore,
Hoary days of blood and gore;
    days when Cheney ran the store –
        That was then; now nevermore.

Why elect as chief complainer
    K-Street's 'Acapulco' Boehner,
Who's obviously on retainer
    though he can't run up the score?
Can it be no one remembers
    that his party lacks the members
To more that stir the dying embers
    of unnecessary war?
Those that Boehner's happy Cheney
    got to sanction torture for –
        Before Obama; way before!

So we question if his raving
    and incessant finger waving
Satisfies his party's craving
    to perform as K-Street's whore,
Now that they can't filibuster
    with their blather and their bluster,
Doomed to emulating Custer,
    missing all the spoils of war
That their cheery Cheney swore
    were Halliburton's repertoire?
        Maybe then, but nevermore.

Will his party still exist
    if he fails to get the gist?
His two cents worth won't be missed
    though chutzpah ooze from ev'ry pore.
How's he doing? Not so hot.
    Raving hasn't helped a lot,
Nor the K-Street tan he's got,
    Nor his Cuban cuspidor.
Why let Boehner on the floor?
    He lacks the looks of Spitzer's whore.
        A tan he's got but nothing more.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
4/27/09

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