THE REPUBLICAN HOPE

 

Democrats are hemming and hawing
Ruminating and obfuscating
Anything but
Actually legislating

SUNSET ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?

 

America has seen
Political parties falter
Federalists, Whigs, Know-Nothings
Are among those no longer
At the political altar
 
Are Republicans next?
Is their moment in the sun
Facing an expiration date
When they will be done?
 
Has the Odious Orange Outrage
Put them on the path
To exit the political stage?

DEMS, GROW UP!

 

The Democrats in Congress
Are determined to make a mess
They just can’t accept the gift
Of Republican distress
 
Now would be
The ideal occasion
To demonstrate rational governing
Rather than disorganization

QUACK LIKE A DUCK

 

The Orange Hoax says
Quack like a duck
Republicans squat and celebrate
Their good luck
 
For having such a leader
So intelligent and knowledgeable
To protect them from
Having to think beyond
What in their narrow worldview
Is all that’s possible

HERSCHEL AND THE HOAX

Herschel in the Senate
From the great state of Georgia
It’s what The Hoax wants
To get even with the established order

IDAHO

 

First trip since covid struck
Flew to Idaho
Which currently just happens to be
The center of the covid rodeo
 
Idahoans who have been vaxed
Are in the distinct minority
The majority are more motivated
By a don’t-tread-on-me mentality

ARMAGEDDON WAITING

 

Debt deadline approaching
Media panicking
Nancy nonchalanting
Mitch smirking

MITCH TO THE RESCUE, NOT

 

Republican first
American after that
That’s Mitch McConnell
The Kentucky vampire bat
 
He’s now trying to avoid
The federal debt issue
From which in years past
He turned to Dems for rescue

DEMOCRATS TAKE AIM AT FOOT

 

Democrats are taking aim
At their collective foot
Will they pull the trigger
And render that appendage caput?
 
Progressives versus moderates
They can’t seem to agree
On how much spending
Is required for political ecstasy
 
The Republican Party is
In danger of disintegrating
Do Democrats really want
To play copycatting?
 
Why can’t the Dems
Sit back and relax
While the GOP
Goes off the tracks?

GOVERNMENT DEBT ROLLER COASTER

 

Here we go again
The government debt roller coaster
Increase the deficit?
Raise the debt limit?
Default in a financial disaster?
 
Sometime in the future
A line might be crossed
And the whole shaky edifice
Collapses like a drunken horse

IT’S ALL CONNECTED

A real estate company in China
Appears to be going belly up
For some reason this has caused Wall Street
To have a big hiccup
 
Is there a real connection here?
Or is this just evidence
That the world’s financial system
Is a swamp of murky pestilence

DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE

 

Can the Dems
Get their act together
To pass a responsible budget
Before the cold weather?
 
AOC desires
To tax the rich
That makes Joe Manchin
Itch and twitch
 
And in the GOP
Lurks the devious Mitch
Determined to drive the Dems
Into the political ditch

JUSTICE FOR J6

 

The Justice for J6 rally
What a letdown
It was missing an attraction
Such as the fumbling Orange Clown
 
Not even Matt Gaetz
Nor Marjorie Taylor Greene
Nor Jim Jordan
Nor Lauren Boebert
Put in an appearance
To pontificate and preen

GENERAL MARK MILLEY

General Milley concluded
The Orange Hoax was deteriorating
So he took actions
To prevent the world from disintegrating
 
For that Republicans are upset
How dare the General try
To curtail the Orange Wonder’s
Efforts to horrify

A VAXED BENEFIT

 

Ashamed of your tiny gonads?
Well then, get yourself vaccinated
Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend
In Trinidad did
And now his boys are much inflated

ANOTHER VOTER “AUDIT”

Arizona’s voting “audit”
Was so successful that
Pennsylvania Republicans
Want their turn at bat
 
Personal data on all voters
Has been demanded
What’s next?
Testing of all Democrats
To find any demented?

WOODWARD IS BACK

 

Bob Woodward has done it again
This time with co-author Bob Costa
Another book, Peril, with
Explosive revelations
The Orange Hoax is revealed
As a swamp of devastations
 
Will it matter
To the Hoax’s worshipers?
Not very likely
They are totally unthinking followers

THE ORANGE SNOWFLAKE

 

The Orange Hoax
Is really a snowflake
Lashing out at anyone
Who thinks he’s a fruitcake
 
And yet more than
Sixty percent of the GOP
Thinks the Hoax is a leader
To the nth degree
 
That means that sixty percent
Of the Republican Party
Doesn’t have the judgement
Of a stuffed turkey

US POLARIZED?

 

I’m an American Republican
So don’t tell me what to do
I’m not one of those Democratic animals
Who live in a zoo
 
Don’t tread on me
Is much too soft and mild
Don’t even look at me
Or I’ll get really riled
 
I believe in one thing
And that’s the Orange Hoax
Only he can save us
All those others are jokes

PRESIDENTS ON 9/11 ANNIVERSARY

 

For the 9/11 Remembrances
President Biden and
Former Presidents Clinton and Obama
Made dignified appearances
Former President Bush
Gave a moving tribute
At a memorial ceremony
Former President Hoax
Attended a boxing match
Where he provided commentary

LET NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE?

 

Why not let
Nature take its course
Depleting the unvaxed
By natural force?
A side benefit would be
Fewer Orange Hoax supporters
In the next election jamboree

LESSONS LEARNED

 

Judged by the efforts
Of the last half-century
Remaking other nations
In our own image
Hasn’t proven to be
A successful trajectory
 
In Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam
We certainly didn’t prevail
The locals were too resistant
To our attempts to spin a tale
Of everlasting happiness
If they would Western values inhale

NATION OF SNITCHES

 

The Republican Party in Texas
Wants a nation of snitches
Report your neighbors’ activities
Collect beaucoup riches
 
Texas is setting the example
For vigilante justice
Pushing the nation toward
A legal and moral precipice

AMERICAN TALIBAN

 

The Republican Party is morphing into
America’s Taliban
An anti-women, anti-voting
Anti-democracy clan
 
What they seem to be for
Is violent insurrection
They get their jollies attacking
Any law-enforcement organization

NO MORE AUGUSTS FOR JOE

 

Joe did not have
A particularly impressive August
Maybe his September
Won’t be such a bust
 
If only this covid thing
Would give the world a break
It just won’t quit
It’s like an angry snake
 
It would help if the Goobers
Got themselves vaxed
But they’re too busy
Defending freedom to the max

POLITICIZED PANDEMIC

 

This covid thing
Won’t go away
People keep getting sick
Day after day
 
Is there light
At the end of the tunnel?
Or do we keep falling deeper
Into the pandemic funnel?
 
As with many things American
Covid has been politicized
mainly by Republicans
Who live to criticize

"FREEDOM" CAUCUS

 

“Freedom” Caucus
What a misnomer
Chaos Caucus
Is a more apt moniker
 
True freedom entails
A bit of discipline
Respect for others
A lack of bigotry
A thinking, rational citizen

SHADOW DOCKET

 

The radical right
Has found a new tool
A Supreme Court procedure
Not often taught in law school
 
In an unsigned order
The Court’s silent majority
Can do what it wants
Without explanation or oratory
 
Think Congress or the President
Have too much power?
Life-term black-roped geezers
Should really make you cower

TEXAS

Texas is quite a state
No abortion, open carry
Voting restrictions, no humility
Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz
All that’s missing is
Moe, Larry, and Curly
 
Goes to show
That some places aren’t ready
For freedom and democracy
Which require mental stability

TWO CHOICES FALLOUT

 

Joe said only two choices
Withdrawal or escalation
He chose withdrawal
But not with a well-planned execution
 
What is the political fallout?
Joe seems to have gone down a bit
But if the situation stabilizes
And Joe keeps foot out of mouth
It might not be a permanent hit