In that august and jealous category

The President of the Board of Ululation,

I am prepared most freely to subscribe.

When was there ever since the early Forties

A more grotesque and shameless mockery

Of the austere and holy principles

Which Liberalism like an altar-flame

Has guarded through the loose irreverent years

Than this inept, this disingenuous,

This frankly disingenuous attempt;