Oh where, oh where has Putin’s poodle gone?

Oh where, oh where can 47 be?

With his insecurity so big and

Being owned by so many oligarchs.

Oh where, oh where can he be?

***

Incy wincy Muskovites

climbed into government agencies’ data,

Down came the court orders

and washed some of the Muskovites out,

Out came the 47’s Executive Orders

and reinstated the incy wincy Muskovites,

And the incy wincy Muskcovites

climbed into your personal data again.

***

Here we go round the health care carousel

The Medicare plan,

The Medicaid plan.

Here we go round the health care carousel

During the first 100 days of 47’s administration.

This is the way children get measles,

Get measles

Get measles

This is the way children get measles

When RFK,Jr. promotes Vitamin A and

cod liver oil as ways to prevent it.

***

Hey diddle diddle

House Speaker Mike Johnson likes to fib and fiddle,

While he is diddling 47 and Musk like to croon.

The elderly and poor did not laugh

When seeing them cavort

So many citizens began to fume.

***

Hickory Dickory Dock

The Republicans adjusted the clock

The clock struck 1

The Republicans frowned

Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory Dickory Dock

The Democrats couldn’t find the clock

The clock struck 2

The Republicans said “boo!”

Hickory Dickory Dock

***

The Republicans saw no evil and heard no evil,

And will have a big fall in the midterms

because they sat on their hands

They said, “Let the courts do what we are afraid to do.”

But it was too late, and democracy had a great fall.

All the congressional horses and all the congressional sycophants,

Struggled to put democracy back together again.

***

I’m a congressional Republican

a coward and a lout

What I say in private

I won’t say publicly out loud.

Here is my “No comment.”

And my fake lament.

When I get all afraid

Because I am not brave.

Hear me whimper

“I won’t stand up

I’ll bend over

So please don’t primary me

I promise to behave!”

***

47 went up to Capitol Hill

To swear his presidential oath.

Project 2025 went live,

And the U.S economy came tumbling after.

Musk got to shutter programs

And lay off federal employees

Who do essential work.

Congregational Republicans

Went home and town halls

They refused to hold,

As they were told

And ran back to D.C.

As fast as they could caper;

They scratched their heads

And with smile told lies to their constituents

In their local newspapers.

***

Musk had a U.S. president,

U.S. president, U.S. president.

Musk bought a U.S. President,

Who sat obediently in the Oval Office

And bullied Zelenskyy and

Told him where to go.

And everywhere that Musk went,

Musk went, Musk went.

Everywhere that Musk went,

47 was sure to go

47 followed him to the front of

The White House one day,

The front of the White House,

The front of the White House one day.

47 followed Musk to front of the White House one day,

To pitch Elon’s Teslas

Which was against the rule.

It made the 47’s critics feel dismay,

Feel dismay, feel dismay.

It made 47’s critics feel dismay,

To see that Musk was manipulating a

President who was a fool.

So the courts started turning 47’s executive orders around,

turned them around, turned them around.

So the started turning them around,

By ruling time after time that they were illegal.

***

Ring around the U.S. democracy,

Pockets full of executive and court orders,

Atishoo, Atishoo,

Congress abdicates its constitutional duties

To Musk and

Democracy falls down!

Robert W. Kubacki lives in Greenfield.