[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 31 (Thursday, February 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1896]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      WITH APOLOGIES TO DR. SEUSS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Montana [Mr. Williams] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, during much of the 
debate on the defense bill just passed, I listened either here in the 
Chamber or watched it on television from my office and spent some time 
between debates composing a little doggerel.
  With apologies to Dr. Seuss, I would like to share it with you:

     On the eighth of November, Election Day last fall.
     The voters decided to take a look over the wall.
     At first, Democrats stood silent, but finally we said,
     With a very sad shake of our collective head,
     ``On this side of the wall we are all Dems,
     But on the far side of the wall live the thems.
     But the voters said it's high time we knew,
     What kind of things the thems would do.
     Even after 40 years, the wall isn't so high.
     Why, the voters can look the thems square in the eye.
     And when the thems came close, the voters heard 'em say, 
           ``Star Wars, Star Wars, it's up, up and away.''
     And at that very instant, voters remembered the reason they 
           had stayed on their own side of the wall season after 
           season.
     The thems love to spend and spend, but only on weapons that 
           skewer.
     Not Head Start or Pell grants or highways or sewers.
     So, on tiptoe the voters stand quizzically watching the 
           thems,
     As the thems dash about in their 100-day fit,
     So, on 101 they can at last sit.
     And the voters note that the thems look frightfully mean,
     As they try to spend billions on their Star Wars machine.
     Voters had walked to the wall with great vim and vigor,
     Only to find the thems as always with their hands on the 
           trigger.
     For 2 more years the voters will watch and the voters will 
           wonder,
     Why the thems spend tax money that might blow the world all 
           asunder.
     At the end of the time, the voters will step back from the 
           wall,
     Hoping a little look didn't hurt much after all.
     And then they will remember when all is said and done,
     These are the very same thems that scared the voters back in 
           1981.

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