Wall Street's Little Lamb
Timmy becomes a Wendy Gramm disciple

Shylocks have a little lamb
    they've fleeced from the get-go
So that they can circumvent
    the public's right to know.

Disclosure of derivatives?
    Tell tales out of school?
That's not the way their hedge funds play.
    So how'll they skirt that rule?

Turn Timmy on to Wendy Gramm's
    prescription for evasion
With customized derivatives
    aired only on occasion.

Standardized? They're regulated
    and exchanged by fools;
But add a custom wrinkle and…
    For 'swaps' there'd be no rules.

Does Timmy love Wall Street that much?
    The public wants to know.
He's hoping when he gets the axe
    that he'll have somewhere else to go.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
5/20/09

To 'Bush League Bankers'
To 'Timid Timmy Geithner'
To 'Banks Lobby Back'