The Cat in the Hat which George W. Bush's State of the Union promises were contrasted with the Cat vowing (in part), "I can hold up the cup and the milk and the cake! I can hold up these books! And the fish on a rake!" In 2007, during the 110th Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared the impasse over a bill to reform immigration with the mess created by the Cat. He read lines of the book from the Senate floor. He then carried forward his analogy hoping the impasse would be straightened out for "If you go back and read Dr. Seuss,
The Cat in the Hat he discovered that it "couldn't have "legs" or a "beak" or a "tail". Neither a "left" foot or a "right" foot." On his approach to writing "The Cat in the Hat" he wrote, "The method I used is the same method you use when you sit down to make apple stroodle [sic] without stroodles." Geisel variously stated that the book took between nine and 18 months to create. Donald Pease notes that he worked on it primarily alone, unlike with previous books, which had been more collaborative efforts between Geisel and his wife, Helen. This marked a general trend in