Green Reform Thoughts

Right now, one of the most dangerous policy fantasies is the distinctly distracting notion that government can create so-called green jobs.

Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg News , October 5, 2009

Health care bill gets green light in cost analysis

New York Times, Headline, October 8, 2009

Health care reform is green, and so is energy reform,
What other color could they be?
Not red, the color of state Medicaid or domestic heating budgets.
Not blue, the color of Blue Dog moods,
Not white, the color of town hall voter anger,
No, it is green, the color of Republican envy.
No, it is green, the color of the light of the OMB imprimatur.
No, it is green, the color of the Democratic energy bill

Into the Green Valley
Bestrode the 100 Senators.
Greenshoots to the Left,
Grassroots to the Right.
The Left vowed to destroy Big Oil,
The Right sought to the Greens to foil.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
The future will be serenely Green,
No, evoked the Grassroots,
Green will not be the scene.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
We’ll save the polars by solar,
No, evoked the Grassroots,
You are unquestionably bipolar.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
Think of the jobs we’ll create
No, evoked the Grassroots,
On thin financial ice you skate.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
Between the cracks grow shoots,
No, evoked the Grassroots,
Your shoots have no roots.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
It’s all about Wind and Sun,
No, evoked the Grassroots,
You cannot the Atom shun.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
Fossil Fuels will soon not be found.
No, evoked the Grassroots,
Fossil Fuels remain in the ground.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
It’s really all about global warming.
No, evoked the Grassroots,
It’s really about markets performing.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
But the seas will surely rise.
No, evoked the Grassroots.
That’s the normal cyclic guise.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
But Green is where the jobs are,
No, evoked the Grassroots,
That’s a myth of your Green Czar.

Bespoke the Greenshots,
But Green cuts carbon emissions,
No, evoked the Grassroots,
It cuts hydrocarbon positions.

Bespoke the Greenshots,
We’ll all soon live in a Green Park.
No, evoked the Grassroots,
We’ll freeze to Death in the Dark.

Bespoke the Greenshoots,
Like health care, it’s not sustainable.
No, evoked the Grassroots,
In the Right world, both are obtainable.

So they volleyed back and forth,
Throwing the ball Left and Right,
From South then back to North,
Convinced each was not too bright.

Those on the Left said the Right,
suffered from some Moral Blight,
Those on the Right said the Left,
Was of rational reason Bereft.

The Sun continued to Glow,
The Wind continued to Blow,
The Oil continued to Flow,
The Coal continued to Burn.
Idealists continued to Yearn.
Meanwhile Realists and Nuclearists
Awaited their Turn in the Sun.