Obama In Wonderland

© 2008, by The Conservative Muse

We have to admire all the ways Lewis Carroll

Depicted way back a great modern-day peril.

His Alice in Wonderland painted a world

Where logic is turned on its head and then hurled 

In public debate as if madness were sanity,

And truth were perceived as a dreadful profanity. 

It’s a world full of nonsense, red queens, and white rabbits

-- that irrational space that Obama inhabits. 

Barack gave a speech that embraced global warming:

He claims with the science he’s wholly conforming

And GOP types are the only deniers: 

we guess all those scientists rate as big liars

who’ve signed a petition debunking the theory; 

there’s thirty one thousand and more who’re leery

of Al Gore’s false premise; but facts just don’t matter –

Barack’s standing firm; he’s as mad as a Hatter!

Compounding the folly, he uses this twaddle 

As grounds for an energy policy model 

To trade carbon credits in efforts to make

A polar bear somewhere less likely to bake!

Though climate change issues are quite problematic

There’s something we’ll offer whose truth is emphatic:

This bureaucrats’ nightmare will set our heads spinning,

While Barack has a smile like the Chesire Cat’s grinning.

Debating the source of high gas prices shows

How far into “crazy” his politics goes.

He says we can’t drill our way out of this mess 

while Dems and enviros have caused this distress:

They’ve blocked new refining and drilling for ages

yet their guilt never seems to have hit the front pages. 

It’s wrong to enlarge our supply?  Is he joking?!

Like the Wonderland larva,*  there’s something he’s smoking!

Instead, he’ll tax “windfalls” of hated Big Oil,

Directing those funds to “green” firms who will toil

in efforts the government deems to be fitting; 

there’s one-fifty billion he’s bent on committing!

We guess private enterprise hasn’t a part

When governing bodies have such a big heart.

To libs like Obama this thought we’d impart:

In Alice’s world they consider this “smart”!

* - technically, “caterpillar,” but the word is unusable within rhythm of the poem