Posted by
Roxanna M. on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:19:20 PM
The forecast for the price of gas was looking mighty grim.
It stood at four, was rising fast; hopes for relief were dim.
The people were in uproar and in no mood to be rolled.
What's to be done to fix this mess, they wanted to be told.
Up to the plate stepped Congress, that hapless ship of fools,
who in the past and even now, were nothing more than tools
of any special interest group that had the bucks to spare
and of course there was no crossing them, Congress wouldn't dare.
The Greens had said, You will not drill. You'll toe the line we draw.
You took our cash, we own you now, our word on this is law.
Thus Congress knew that at its feet the blame was rightly laid,
and from its duties to this nation it had truly strayed.
But now the day of reckoning was finally drawing nigh,
so Congress did what it did best and that's to tell a lie.
It's not our fault, just wait you'll see, we're very innocent.
And on making sure we saw their "truth", they were quite intent.
The member's first decision was to loudly pass the buck.
What better way to go than liability to duck.
This plan's a sure-fire winner. We'll get away with this.
It didn't once occur to them that they would swing and miss.
We'll blame the greedy barons of the oil companies.
We'll bring them to this town and then we'll bring them to their knees.
Their plan was put in motion, but all that it did yield
was five well-dressed executives who deftly played the field.
They would not bow. They would not scrape. They firmly held their ground.
Don't seek to put this mess on us. It's you who've been unsound.
When something's kept in short supply, the price will surely rise.
And every day has seen this true, the proof's before your eyes.
The members howled in outrage, and a threat rang through the air.
How dare you speak to us that way! You'd better have a care!
It won't be very pretty when we take you to the mat.
We'll "socialize" your industry. What do you say to that?
So there it was on on fully display, for all the world to see
just how truly ugly Congress had the will to be.
Its back is up against the wall, and so we'll watch and wait
to see what happens next time it's Congress at the plate.