Bush's Mr. Magoos *

Who will be Bush's new Mr. Magoo?
   Who'll oversee national intelligence?
A neocon neophyte who'll again ballhoo
   propaganda as bonafide evidence?

Will he be a czar with diverse morning lines
   all subject to interpretation
By Mr. Magoos with their own bones to chew
   in the Bush-again administration?

Whose math isn't fuzzy, but downright misleading,
   and deliberately miscalculated,
Whose Medicare costs for ten years include
   the first years when it's not activated,

Whose Social Security conversion costs
   won't kick in till two thousand and nine,
But whose ten year projections are from two thousand and six
   to soft pedal the Bush bottom line.

Bush's war in Iraq "will be paid for by oil"
   at "no cost" to us U.S. taxpayers –
So who's idiotic and unpatriotic,
   Bush Magoos or observant naysayers?

* NY Times - 2/10/05
Editorial - "When Math Is Worse Than Fuzzy"

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com.com
2/10/05

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