What if George Were President?

A Poem by Scott Italiaander

What if George were President and promised to enlist
Devoted public servants instead of lobbyists,

And then named a tax cheater as our nation’s tax collector
And put in place some faceless “czars” to police the private sector?

What if George’s Chief of Staff was a ruthless machine hack
Who threatens corporate CEOs if they give him any flack?

What if George to Cairo flew to give a major speech

And suggested to the Muslim world that Jews are blocking peace?

And what if he had also said that Gazans' “humiliation”
Is caused not by their leaders but by Jewish “occupation”?

What if George were silent as the Mullahs killed dissenters,
Yet criticized Israelis for building shopping centers?

What if George’s party had a lock on Capitol Hill,
And spent damn near a trillion bucks on a pork-filled “stimulus” bill?

And what if six months later 2 million jobs went “poof”?
And the rate of unemployment kept climbing through the roof?

What if George’s buddies came up with legislation
Behind closed doors and out of sight to “transform” our health care system?

And what if George demanded: “Pass this plan this summer--
I don’t know what' in the bill, but the status quo’s a bummer”?

What if George told doctors: “From now on I’ll decide
Your fees for treatments rendered and the meds you can prescribe”?

What if George said that his plan will cause health costs to sink
When even his own experts say it’ll drown us in red ink?

And what if George insisted that old folks need not fear;
They'll not be forgotten when the end of life is near?

(“Together with your doctor you have freedom to decide:
The pills to keep you “comfortable”; or the assisted suicide.”)

What if George got testy when he found out that his plan
Wasn’t going over well with the average American

And came up with a website suggesting we inform
On disloyal friends and neighbors who oppose Health Care “Reform”?

What if George’s cronies called those who would dissent
Racist “Evil-Mongers”; a Mob of malcontents?

And what if George’s allies came to a Town Hall or a rally
To intimidate the people from speaking their minds freely?

What if George refused to hear what the people have to say

And told those who don't agree to get out of his way?

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My friends, you know the answer to the questions I have posed.
We don’t have to speculate, for everybody knows:

The Democrats in Congress and the elite establishment
Would be screaming for impeachment-- if George were President.