Here's an interesting article by Renana Brooks on Bush's "dependency-creating language" which she breaks down into "empty language," "personalization," and "negative framework."

And what about this move by Hart Seely to portray Donald Rumsfeld's patronizing evasions as poems? Somehow, it just doesn't strike me as funny. Seely refers to Rumsfeld's "work" as "dedicat[ed] to the fractured rhythms of the plainspoken vernacular, [and] reminiscent of William Carlos Williams'... [while his] gift for offhand, quotidian pronouncements are as entrancing as Frank O'Hara's." This decontextualization of Rumsfeld's snide and often rude dismissives seems to me repugnant when considered against his political affiliations and responsibility for those who have lost and who continue to lose their lives due to his machinations.