Sometimes my tongue is so stuck in my cheek, I fail to laugh, for fear of biting the lovely instrument off, and so I find my laughter’s turned to tears of joy, you see,. This is not misery you see. It is hope, you see? Misery died with the death of JEC’s Presidency, you see! Honor with WJC, you see. Some commentators claim the Republicans died with GWB, some only wish it were true. But I figure Cohen had President Obamas efforts nailed descriptively and much more so aesthetically pleasing than my lowly attempts or those of Sullivan.
“Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
“Like a worm on a hook,
Like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If i, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If i, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.”
“Like a baby, stillborn,
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
“But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
“I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
He said to me, you must not ask for so much.
“And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
She cried to me, hey, why not ask for more?”
“Oh like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
have tried in my way to be free.”
Geitner on the economy, was generally two faced, describing the problem, then telling all to hear that the solution, for now, was basically more of the problem. Long term he gave some hope for fixing regulatory matters, but the problem is surviving to that longer term, using more of the same spending borrowed money backed by…hope.
Not faith, not credit, not even misery so you cannot say were kiting the checks.
Education sec, has some nice ideas but sounds more like a urban planner than an educator. Nice left handed complement to No Child Left Behind, although in fairness the stuff that works is all the Bush, the stuff that doesn’t can be chalked up to bipartisanship– Another Kennedy moment to add to those silky sow eared monuments in Boston, no doubt. Another inflated price tag.
