After every scandal
Committees are created
Witnesses are questioned and
The evidence, debated
Conclusions are determined
At least, in part, in theory
Dependent on the answer
To but one essential query
I’m going to ask that question
Though I know that I’ll regret it
What did Joe forget
And when did he forget it?
His memory is faulty
And at best quite unreliable
Thus everything he says
Is plausibly deniable
Abandoning positions
Is what politicians do
He drops what he believed in
And he hopes that you will too
I think he spoke precisely
Not befuddled or demented
When he said that this surrender
Was, indeed, unprecedented
We’ve never had a day like this
A week, a month, a year
It’s quite a fitting capstone
To his wonderful career
We know it’s a disaster
From this spot where we’re all sittin’
So Joe’s legacy will have to wait
Till history’s re-written
A project by the New York Times
Predicably will find
No evidence of suffering
By those we left behind
