We give up.
We have to admit that, after attacking George Bush with filthy limericks for more than two months, the president remains largely unscathed and the Republican Party appears resurgent under comeback kid John McCain, while the Democratic contenders are engaged in a struggle like that of Holmes and Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, which seems certain to send them both plummeting into the abyss.
The probability that the Republicans will continue in power in November is approaching unity. This despite a weekly limerick that attacked the president on everything from the consistency of his ejaculate to the disproportionate heft of his left testicle when compared with his right one. We know from anecdotal evidence that our dirty limericks were the talk of Georgetown society and that Sally Quinn even embroidered one into a throw pillow as a Christmas gift for Buffy Cafritz. Perhaps our proudest moment came when several of our limericks were read into the Congressional Record by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) during a late night session.
All for naught.
Next week, we will begin a new feature, “The Happy Ending Project,” which will revise famous works of literature and art so as to make them more cheerful and upbeat.
Until then, we leave you with one final dirty limerick about George Bush, which shows, we hope, that we can acknowledge our defeat like gentlemen and admit that, for now, the president is the better man.
Mr. Bush has a cock quite malevolent,
That’s fucked every species but elephant!
A pathological prick
in no humans he’d stick,
So to Laura he’s grown quite irrelevant.