A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme

by Calvin Trillin

Somehow, despite everything Calvin Trillin wrote about the Bush Administration in Obliviously On He Sails, his 2004 bestseller in verse, George W. Bush is still in the White House. Taking a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400065569
• ISBN13: 9781400065561
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

CALVIN TRILLING, AGAIN

CALVIN TRILLIN DOES SUPER WORD PICKS TO SATIRICALLY HANDLE THE PRESENTM POLITICAL SCENE(S).

A HECKUVA JOB, ON A HECKAVA DANGEROUS PRSIDENT!

Trillin cuts through the crap and nails this admin for the what it is! Never "preachy" just lots of facts and things the press were to worried to print for fear of Bush & Company.The press gave Bushy a pass, but not Trillin!

A Heckuva Job Writing A Heckuva A Book!

A Heckuva Job Writing A Heckuva A Book! If you want a political satire that will make you laugh, this is the one. Using rhyme to state the obvious that the powers that be haven't a clue what is really going on, just note Katrina and other disasters if you want a clue. The President had to finally go down to New Orleans to make a public show. The rhythm of the rhyme is hysterically funny, using many of the Bush Admin's people as caricatures. This is a witty (yet powerful prose) style book that will help you laugh at the dire situation this administration has placed our country. It's better to laugh than cry, but taking action in both is best and that's what this author begins to do by cutting in and placing truth in the rhymes.

A Gosh Dang Heckuva Job, Mr. Trillin

In A HECKUVA JOB Calvin Trillin continues his rhymed assessments of the current Bush administration that he began in OBLIVIOUSLY ON HE SAILS. His title is obvious to anyone who owned a radio or television set during the Katrina debacle. For the two Americans who missed Bush's comment, he informed FEMA Chief Michael Brown that he was doing a "heckuva job" as some New Orleans citizens were stranded on housetops as they held signs begging for help while others lay floating in the waters caused by Katrina. All the usual suspects are back; actually most of them never went away although the country did lose Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank and John Ashcroft and a couple of others resigned as Mr. Bush began the second four years of his reign. Mr. Trillin takes aim at Mushroom Cloud Rice and Five Deferments Dick-- or if you prefer-- Nanny Dick-- as well as a host of other Bush accomplices. Here are some of Mr Trillin's gems: About Cheney's statements of Iraq's role in 9/11; "If you say it enough, then it's true." About Bush's current abysmal approval rating: "But those pols don't have Jesus on their side." Condoleezza Rice is described as "cold as ice," but "precise with her advice." George Bush may be remembered by historians as "the Great Conflater." And Trillin on Colin Powell: "It's sad to see, as we remember when/Some thought he was the president-elect to be,/How easily is done a Colinectomy." The most devastating "poem" by far has to be "A Short History Of Someone Who Failed To Get Into The Champagne Unit of The Texas Air National Guard In 1958." Historians may not recall My name, now chiseled on that wall. Still, they might say I played a role By going on that last patrol And not returning to my base: I might have died in Bush's place There are a lot of other rhymes here of course, but that one stops me in my tracks. Many of them explode upon impact. Sadly Trillin has found out that he could not bring down a presidency "with iambic pentameter." At least not yet.

Our nation's second term-ite

The president's a perfect foil For author Calvin Trillin. The nation's in a big turmoil Thanks to our dimwit villain. But to the rescue comes "C. T." Who sheds some light on "Dub-ya". Each page evokes a firm "teehee" And will the right way rub ya. His commentary lights upon Those Bushies lacking shtick. There's Mushroom Cloud and Orange John And Five Deferments Dick. Yet our commander is the one That Trillin writes the most of. It could be said that when he's done The president's made toast of. I highly recommend this work For wit that's nicely offered. And in '09 that White House jerk Is goin' home to Crawford.