Bust a Rhymed Couplet and say Goodnight Bush!

Send us your own Goodnight Bush rhyme!

Enter the Goodnight Bush Couplet Contest for your chance to gain fame and win a signed copy of the book. Bush is still in office, so we have asked our readers to continue creating their own 'Goodnight' couplets that capture the most recent developments in this ongoing disaster. Below is the current champ, and the previous winners, with links to the related new stories.

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Goodnight country's middle class
Goodnight oceans rising fast

—Emily Laitin

For the stories, see:

The collapsing American middle class...
crookedtimber.org/2008/05/06/the-collapsing-american-middle-class/

Ocean's rising fast...
www.globalwarmingart.com/sealevel

Goodnight banks gone past the brink
Goodnight those who cannot blink

—J. McSame

For the stories, see:

1. www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/business/18fed.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

2. www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/us/politics/17obama.html?ref=politics

3. blog.indecision2008.com/2008/09/16/jon-stewart-on-the-sarah-palin-interview/

Goodnight pig wearing lipstick
Goodnight smears recycled and sick

—J. McSame

For the lipstick story, see:

Obama on Letterman
Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODOAMI2z6tY
Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXc5AVHgaE
Part 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gt3BQqa-A

Other smears...

1. Smear Generator Says: Wolves
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBtzOHq6JqA

2. Smear Generator Says: Pedophile www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/mccain-ad-obamas-lone-edu_n_125205.html

"Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn't define what honor was. Now we know why," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

The Same:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHABGmgo5Ng&watch_response

Goodnight RNC, "A Place Called Fear"
Goodnight Bush—can you please disappear?

—J. McSame

For the story, see:

thinkprogress.org/2008/08/03/bush-rnc-pledge/

Goodnight deadly specious facts
Goodnight Endangered Species Act

—D. Cheney

For the story, see:

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/11/national/w141651D92.DTL

Goodnight stimulus checks, shiny and complicit
Goodnight budget wrecks, now a record deficit

—Michael Karpus

For the story, see:

www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=120328&title=faith-based-accounting

www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/28/bush-leaving-next-preside_n_115335.html

Goodnight, illiterate, word-mangling mumbler
Goodnight, inept foreign-policy fumbler

—Jill Work

For the story, see:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh4s6i4-7dg

www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=163366&title=fruits-of-democracy-iraq

Goodnight presidential powers that far overreached
Goodnight fair citizens whose faith has been breached

—Sharon Kidd

For the story, see:

www.wikiality.com/Unitary_Executive_Theory

Goodnight Hummer, pedal to the floor
Goodnight oil platform, sitting offshore

—D. Cheney

For the story, see:

www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=115013&title=grand-heft-auto

www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/opinion/19thu1.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=offshore+oil&st=nyt&oref=slogin

Goodnight Gitmo indefinite detention
Goodnight abuses too awful to mention

—Pete Anderson

For the story, see:

www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/30280/2/TDS-Gitmo-Ruling.mov