With apologize to the great Dave Frishberg:
I’m just a bill
Yes, I’m only a bill
And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill
Well, then I’m off to the White House
Where I’ll wait in a line
With a lot of other bills
For the president to sign
And if he signs me, then I’ll be a law.
How I hope and pray that he will,
But today I am still just a bill.
Boy: You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?
Bill: Yes, that’s called a veto. If the President vetoes me, I have to go back to Congress and they vote on me again, and by that time you’re so old...
Boy: Say, Bill, you look a little different now than you did back on the Hill.
Bill: I do?
Boy: Yeah, you’re a lot shorter!
Bill: Ah, shit. I told them not to stuff all that corn in me. Now my seams popped, a whole title fell out, and I don’t even pass constitutional muster.
But how I hope and I pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill.
Congressman: There was a clerical error, Bill! Now you have to go back to the Hill and start over!
Bill: Oh no!!!
Congressman: Don’t worry, Bill, we’ve got a veto-proof supermajority. Now hold still while I cram some more corn up your ass.
Boy: Look over there, somebody’s cheating at football!
Bill: Owwwwww!
Well, I suppose I should apologize to Gentle Readers, too.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.
Would you look at that sad little scrap of paper over there?