[Newspoetry] Widespread News Poetry Lay-Offs Follow Crash of Free-Market Ideologues

[DL Emerick]

Mocking the news is becoming increasingly difficult.
 
Having spent months saying that he might die and his VP must be ready from
Day 1,
John McCain picks a person who will not be ready on Day 1461.
(FN.  *365 days per year * 4 years + 1 leap day = 1461*)
 
Having spent years touting the hidden-handyman work of market forces,
And seeing it, by the way, come to a natural disaster of a big crash,
As years of greed and manipulation finally double-back to bite them,
The entire GoP governing apparatus, and John McCain, too, boldly announces
US GOVERNMENT WILL BUY UP THE US ECONOMY -
COME SOON TO THE BIG SHERIFF'S SALE -
WE'LL BUY ALL WORTHLESS ASSETS FOR PENNIES ON A DOLLAR,
MITIGATING YOUR LOSSES AND SWALLOWING OUR OWN -
DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE HYPER-INFLATION WE ARE CAUSING,
BECAUSE THAT BUCK IS BEING PASSED TO OBAMA (MOST LIKELY WINNER).
 
This is the culminating move of the Bush fiscal fiasco based on the theory:
STARVE THE BEAST by eating up all the money in the economy,
So that there will be none left for health care, medicare, social security.
 
McCain even announces he is all for tough strong regulations,
Even though he voted to kill every regulation he could these last 26 years -
McCain just says the evil unknown corrupters caused the crash,
Unable to identify a single person that he'd indict or send to jail -
Like Bernanke, Paulson, Greenspan, Gramm, Bush, Cheney or Rove.
 
Would you trust McCain (or Palin) to clean house in DC -
Or rather aren't they just throwing dust in your eyes,
Slinging mud about the campaign trail as if to hide moose spoor?
 
For animators, cartoonists, pundits, and other serious critics, these are
tough times -
How can you make fools look even more foolish than the latest breaking news?
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