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 philosophical view, Trillin has said, 8220;We weren8217;t going to know whether you could bring down a presidency with iambic pentameter until somebody tried it.8221;Now Trillin is trying again, back at his pithy and hilarious best to comment on the President8217;s decision to go to war in Iraq (8220;Then terrorists could count on what we8217;d do: / Attack us, we8217;ll strike back, though not at you8221;), his religiosity (8220;He treats his critics in the press / As if they8217;re yapping Pekineses. / Reporters deal in mundane facts; / This man has got the word from Jesus8221;), and whether he was wearing a transmitting device in the first presidential debate (8220;Could this explain his odd expressions? Is there proof he / Was being told, 8216;If you can hear me now, look goofy8217;?8221;)Trillin deals with the people around Bush, such as Nanny Dick Cheney and Mushroom Cloud Rice and Orange John Ashcroft and Orange John8217;s successor, Alberto Gonzales (8220;The A.G.8217;s to be one Alberto Gonzales8211; / Dependable, actually loyal 252;ber alles8221;). He tries to predict the behavior of the famously intemperate John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations in poems with titles like 8220;Bolton Chases French Ambassador Up Tree8221; and 8220;White House Says Bolton Can Do Job Even While in Straitjacket.8221;Finally, in dealing with whether the entire Bush Administration, like the unfortunate Brownie, has done a heckuva job, he composes a small-government sea chantey for the Republicans:8217;Cause government8217;s the problem, lads,Americans would all do well to shun it.Yes, government8217;s the problem, lads.At least it is when we8217;re the ones who run it.