January 4, 2006

Presidential Spokesman Calls Bush An “Avid Reader”:

More than Saddam

Having WMDs

It’s hard to swallow

Whoppers like these.

Two new books that

Bush carries around

Are on Teddy Roosevelt

And troops on the ground.

I doubt we’d see that

Dubya’s a top whiz

If on either bookHe took a pop quiz.

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