Carbon's Queen (and King?)
Cap and trade with Blythe Masters and Michael Steele

Introducing J.P. Morgan's
    Queen of Credit Obligations,
But please refrain from wild applause
    and snide congratulations.

The havoc that Blythe Masters wrought
    devising credit default swaps
Pales beside her scheme for getting
     Michael Steele to lick his chops

Over carbon credit profits –
    all the money to be made
Just by using excess carbon
    to adjust a person's shade.

Masters-Steele thank Harry Reid
    for being so observant
And knowing, when it comes to greed,
    that Blythe's almost as fervent.

The fact Obama's ten shades lighter
    seemingly had not been noted
By J.P. Morgan's Jamie Dimon
    who views the world as sugar-coated.

But guess who's shade's about to be
    the basis for all standardizing?
For Steele's the one Republican
    not now in need of carbonizing.

So why does Steele, the GOP's
    one and only black man standing,
Have Masters worried he'll sell short,
    then lighten up by sanding?

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
1/18/10

To 'Republicans'
To 'J.P. Morgan's Dimon'
To 'Bankers Without a Clue'
To 'The Great Tea Party Rip-Off'
To 'J.P.Morgan's Inventor of Credit Default Swaps'