Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington: Nursery Rhymes for the Political Barnyard
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Can anything be poetic in the politicking of Washington, D.C.? Is there poetry in the morning's headlines and in tonight's news tickers? Or, as Seely paraphrases Dr. Seuss, Do W's troubles trouble you, too? America's pundit poet laureate, the man who channeled the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and Phil Rizzuto, now offers the perfect metaphor for the inside-the-beltway bubble: it's a nursery. Using the beneficent spirit of Mother Goose, he has fashioned hilarious nursery rhymes hidden amid the photo ops and filibustering."John Kerry backed Iraq, John Kerry took it back," making him "a very airy, wary hara-kiri." Bill Bennett, "independent, Kept a hidden secret muse. He would clutch his lucky pendant, Praying, 'Papa needs new shoes!'" As for Iraq, "When you lose, you lose, and when you win, you win, and when you can't tell win from lose, best stop the war you're in." No one is safe from Seely's wicked muse: Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, virtually every news anchor, and a good portion of the Hollywood elite are skewered unforgettably by Seely's Mother Goosequills in this irreverent and hilarious collection.
Contents1. I know an old party that swallowed a war Don't know what for, it swallowed a war. The White House2. This little lobby went to HastertThis little lobby tried Blunt."Congress3. Clarence Thomas went to town Dressed in his judicial gown.The Court4. Gores see polls and Doles see pollsAnd Lindsey Grahams see Bidens.Candidates5. London Bridge might be falling down!Falling down! Falling down!Media6. Eighty deaths hath SeptemberSixty more in November.Iraq7. Diddle, diddle dumpling, my son John Talks online with his congressman.Issues8. Halle Berry, shave a pig How many films in that X-Man wig?Celebrities9. Peter Pace picked a peck of pickled problems.CodaAcknowledgments
