Eau de Rove

There’s Karl Rove on the cover of the Times/
Thinking he is smarter than us all/
Thinking he can fool us once again/
Believing in nothing/
Except winning.

We're all just suckers to Karl Rove/
We who drag our butts out to the polls/
We who think “democracy” means us/
There’s Karl Rove on the cover of the Times/
Predicting the Republicans will win.

But Karl, there’s 300 million of us
and one of you/
And if the democracy's still breathing,
we’re gonna let you know it, too/
Hope you’ve got a good exit strategy/
For yourself/
If not for our sons and daughters in the Middle East.

Hear you have a 17-year-old son of your own/
Hear he’s pretty handy with a gun (see Vanity Fair, Dec., 2006 issue)/
But you’re no sucker, Rove, and I'll bet he's not going overseas/
To fight the war you believe will win/
This mid-term election.

“As it gets close to Election Day,” Rove told Vanity Fair, “the question gets to be, ‘Do you want to win, or do you want to lose? Do you want America to prevail, or do you want America to lose?’”

There’s Karl Rove on the cover of the Times/
Thinking we’re all dumb as a slug/
Thinking we didn’t notice
his boss lied
About why our sons and daughters
Had to die.