To Think I've Said Something
Remembering Dr. Seuss's story
"And To think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street"
(When I leave home to walk to school, Dad always says to me,)

When I arrive at work each day,
Bush always teases me,
"Hurry, Chubby, clue me in
To your chicanery.
Who will you be speaking for?
Who'll never know you spoke
Until he finds that blaming him's
A Chubby masterstroke?"

So who gets the credit when I put the word out
    that Pace has been fooling around,
So we won't have to ask, and he won't have to tell,
    whether he is the fox or the hound?
Perhaps jealous generals
    that Peter passed over?
Or someone assigned an
    unarmored Land Rover?
To think I've said something someone else will get blamed for
Will be adequate payment for the one thing I'm famed for.

So who gets the credit when I leak to the press
    that Valerie Plame is a spy
So that Novak, the douche bag, has one final chance
    to pretend that he's camera shy?
Perhaps Richard Cheney
    in a moment of pique?
Or Chief of Staff Libby
    while turning his cheek?
To think I've said something someone else will get blamed for
Will be adequate payment for the one thing I'm famed for.

So who gets the credit for my recommending
    which Attorneys we shouldn't rehire,
Just to see how well Bushie's fav'rite token Hispanic
    will do with his feet to the fire?
Perhaps Harriet Miers
    who's for canning them all?
Or Pete V. Domenici
    who was playing hard ball?
To think I've said something someone else will get blamed for
Will be adequate payment for the one thing I'm famed for.

Though I'm now in San Quentin after strangling Bush
For ignoring my warning that he needed to shush
And never let on who the leaker might be,
How can they be sure that the culprit is me?

Original Verse by Dr. Seuss
New Verse by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
3/18/07

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