Fellow Texans, I am proudly standing here to humbly say.
I assure you, and I mean it- Now, who says I don’t speak out as plain as day?
And, fellow Texans, I’m for progress and the flag- long may it fly.
I’m a poor boy, come to greatness. So, it follows that I cannot tell a lie.
As everyone and their brother are noting, Rumsfeld is resigning. When President Bush was asked why he told reporters last week that Rumsfeld was staying on to the end of his term, Bush said, “I didn’t want to inject a major decision about this war into the final days of the campaign. The only way to answer that question and get you on to another question was to give you that answer.”
Now my good friends, it behooves me to be solemn and declare,
I’m for goodness and for profit and for living clean and saying daily prayer.
And now, my good friends, you can sleep nights, I’ll continue to stand tall.
You can trust me, for I promise, I shall keep a watchful eye upon ya’ll…
In other words, the Texas Side-Step (if you’ve ever seen Best Little Whorehouse in Texas you know what I mean). Tell them something so they go on to the next question. Never mind that it isn’t the truth. But it wasn’t under oath, so we can’t investigate perjury charges, which we did over a stained dress.
Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don’t-
I’ve come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,
cut a little swathe and lead the people on.
To top it off, note that the proposed replacement (Robert Gates, an ex-CIA head) will be confirmed by the outgoing senate, not the incoming senate. In politics, timing is everything.
Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don’t-
I’ve come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,
cut a little swathe and lead the people on.
