On a Bicycle Built for Shrub (2004)

Two news items:

20 May 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush sought to rally Republican lawmakers around his Iraq plan Thursday, saying Iraqis are ready to "take the training wheels off'" by assuming some political power…

BUSH FALLS ON BIKE RIDE
Saturday, May 22, 2004 Posted: 6:00 PM EDT
CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- President Bush fell off his bicycle Saturday while riding on his ranch, according to White House spokesman Trent Duffy. Bush, who was accompanied on his bike ride by his doctor....fell about 16 miles into a 17-mile ride. The accident caused minor abrasions to his chin, upper lip, nose,right hand and both knees, but he was able to ride back home, said Duffy....

Pedal on, O Schwinn of State

Pedal on, O Schwinn of State,
Bush-Cheney war machine so great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what "masters" warped thy wheels,
What workmen botched thy chain of steel,
Who bent thy training-wheels, and broke
Each sprocket, gear and twisted spoke.
You forged the misbegotten mess,
And when you fall off on your ass,
You'll blame the Congress, blame the brass;
The lib'ral press (defeatist traitors),
But ne'er blame Bush and his Crusaders!
In spite of plans that lack all sense,
In spite of false intelligence,
Ride on, nor fear to breast the tide
Of rising blowback. Smug and snide,
You took the nation for a ride.
You stole our sons, then hid their bodies
Go, pedal with your pals the Saudis,
To Hell with thee, to HELL with thee!

Not Brightest, Nor Best
to the tune of "Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning"

Not brightest nor best of the sons of Big Oil
A wastrel until he quit drinking;
Unaccustomed to service, and unused to toil
And too little given to thinking.

Vainly we wait for a sign that he sees
That the crisis grows daily much vaster
What “war president” ever took so much ease
As debacle turned into disaster?

While Baghdad is burning he falls from his bike.
(The training wheels came off too soon.)
Make this wannabe Ike on a trike take a hike
Along with that other poltroon.