Bush & Company

On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, George W. Bush joined other famous speakers at a "Get Motivated" seminar in Fort Worth, Texas. He's to repeat his performance December 2.

Although the event was said in advance by its organizers to deliver "more inspirational firepower than a stick of dynamite," one wonders how Dick Cheney's tool, more concerned with recreation and personal fitness than with governance, could galvanize others to action. His numerous vacation days at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, Camp David, his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas and elsewhere, as well as his hours-long morning exercise ritual in the White House gym, are well documented.

Talk about a whopping goof,
Unless it actually was a spoof,
Fitness freak, vacationing
Former president George two
Was a speaker in October
At that motivational thing.

For some really good advice,
Who knows why they didn't pick
Super-motivated Dick,
Powerful past president of vice?

Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby were award recipients, Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at a Bush administration reunion at the neoconservative Center for Security Policy dinner ---Libby, for the "Service Before Self" award (for being a fall guy) and Cheney, for the "Keeper of the Flame" (for enhancing American security).

Scooter and Dick, felonious dudes,
By all rights should be royally screwed,
Justifiable sitting ducks;
Instead of that, each in his tux,
Is glorified for telling lies
And gets a highfalutin prize.

Though infamous malfeasants these,
Guests warmly toast those honorees.

Senator Joe Lieberman, independent/erstwhile Democrat, and his wife Hadassah, are both closely linked to the insurance industry, profiting royally from the affiliations. Meanwhile, the senator speaks against health care reform on the pretext of its costliness, when in reality, effective health care reform would save money, as Mr. Lieberman must know. He threatens, if a public option is included, to join Republicans in a filibuster that will kill the bill.

Aetna's hero Senator Joe,
Health care reform's most heinous foe,
With grossest perfidy and greed
To sufferers' needs he pays no heed.

Ensuring funds for his campaign
To keep his seat come 2010
And court those health moguls again,
Joe and Hadassah don't mind lies,

For they protect those precious ties.
Break out Beluga and champagne,
Joe and Hadassah, solemnize
Health care reform's woeful demise,

Amid your victims' fruitless cries.