What Tom DeLay Might Have Had in Mind When He Hatched the Cockamamie and Short-Lived Scheme to Use a Cruise Ship During the Republican Convention

What Tom DeLay Might Have Had in Mind When He Hatched the Cockamamie and Short-Lived Scheme to Use a Cruise Ship During the Republican Convention

What Tom DeLay Might Have Had in Mind When He Hatched the Cockamamie and Short-Lived Scheme to Use a Cruise Ship During the Republican Convention

“A cruise ship in the harbor,” thought DeLay,
“Could be a place where decent folks would stay,
Avoiding all that mob that we detest–

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“A cruise ship in the harbor,” thought DeLay,
“Could be a place where decent folks would stay,
Avoiding all that mob that we detest–
New Yorkers, who are foreigners at best.
We’d still get pictures showing Bush as hero
While speaking resolutely at Ground Zero.
A pity it’s to Sodom we must drag
Our George to get him wrapped up in the flag.”

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