Even President Barack Obama's senior advisor Valerie Jarrett admits the so-called American Jobs Act has not been fully written yet. That fact would have been impossible to ascertain by listening to the president's recent address to a joint session of Congress. His rhetoric delivered before an actual plan even exists and, of course, Edgar Allan Poe have inspired the verses below.

Once upon a summer evening, while the Congress was convening
Hoping they would get to witness oratory skill
In strode a familiar fellow, who before had seemed so mellow,
Now began to speak in tones bordering on shrill
Perhaps in an attempt to bring to legs another thrill
Quoth Obama, "Pass this bill"

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"America is a nation full of good fortune, with so much to be grateful for, but we are not spared from suffering. In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America because we are freedom's home and defender, and the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time." - President George W. Bush, Washington National Cathedral, September 14, 2001