I think they deserve an award just for finding something that rhymes with ethanol (echoes of meaningless standing ovations)

"Do you folks have Oscar fever? The Al Gore documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' is nominated for two Academy Awards. One Academy Award is for best song. I think they deserve an award just for finding something that rhymes with ethanol." --David Letterman

"How many people saw the Bush State of the Union address? I can still hear the echoes of meaningless standing ovations." --David Letterman

"President Bush now has the lowest presidential approval rating since Richard Nixon. Now, here's another coincidence. Nixon had a dog named 'Checkers.' Bush plays checkers with his dog." --David Letterman

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html “A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”