NEW YEAR’S HOPE

 

Too much to hope for
In the New Year
But at the top of the list
Is for the Orange Huckster
To disappear
 
Wouldn’t it be great
At the end of next December
if people were asking
Whatever became of
That wannabe dictator?
 
But that’s gonna depend
On the American electorate
Many members of which
Are apparently attracted to
An intemperate degenerate

INEPTNESS TO RETURN

 

One of the least productive Congresses
In the nation’s history
Will soon be returning to “work”
Who will be its next
Most disruptive jerk?
 
Last session Marjorie Taylor Greene
And Matt Gaetz
Vied for the position
Will they continue their leading roles
Or will other opponents of functioning government
Emerge to offer competition?

INTERESTING TIMES AHEAD

 

2023, the year of indictments
2024, maybe the year of trial activity
Depends in part on the Supremes
And whether they can act with alacrity
 
A major obstacle is the delaying tactics
Of the Orange Huckster and his cronies
As they attempt to avoid justice
So the Huckster can resume
His nefarious activities

CIVIL WAR FOR DUMMIES

 

Nikki Haley was looking good
But then exhibited some confusion
About slavery and the Civil War
Initially not acknowledging a connection
 
Hey Nikki, it’s 2023
Not 1923
Today all but the most ardent
Johnny Reb apologist
Would readily include slavery
On the War causation list
 
You could make up
For your faux pax stumble
By hammering the Orange Huckster
Until he could only mumble
 
Meanwhile,
The Pine Tree State whacked
The Huckster with a mallet
Saying no, he can’t be
On the ballot

AID TO UKRAINE

 

The Department of Defense has released
The last funds authorized for Ukraine
Now it’s up to Congress
To take action again
 
For the current Congress, however
Action is anathema
It approaches even the smallest decision
As a great dilemma
 
Congress is partially paralyzed
By its far right contingent
Which includes Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz
And others intellectually deficient

HUCKSTER MELTDOWN

 

The Odious Orange Huckster
Is having a holiday meltdown
Ranting and raving
Like a deranged clown
 
Saying Special Counsel Jack Smith
Should “go to hell”
And other foes
Should “rot” there to
Guess Satan has anointed the Huckster
Doorman of the Hades Zoo

CHRISTMAS AT MAR-A-LAGO

 

What a blast
Christmas at Mar-a-Lago must be
Does the Orange Grinch
Have a real Christmas tree?
 
Probably not
Much too messy
He likes things
Nice and tidy

THE ORANGE GRINCH

 

The Odious Orange Grinch says
Ba Humbug
No Merry Christmas for you
Unless you support his fabrication
That the 2020 election was hijacked
By Democrats acting in criminal desperation

NETANYAHU WON’T QUIT

 

Netanyahu persists
In pulverizing Gaza
How many civilians must die
To satisfy him and his right wing
Before the revenge lust runs dry?
 
Netanyahu is taking Israel
From being the victim
To being Israel the aggressor
Lacking humanity and wisdom

NOT YET

 

Regarding the Special Counsel’s request
The Supremes said not yet
The Court of Appeals needs its shot
Then the Supremes can decide
Whether to agree or not
 
Meanwhile,
Want a laugh?
Ask whether there’s a way to resolve
The Israeli-Palestinian blood bath

NEVER READ MIEN KAMPF

 

The Orange Huckster said
“I’ve never read Mien Kampf”
You didn’t have to, Huckster
You’re already a natural born dictator
 
Besides, you’ve never read
Much of anything
Your intellectual void
Is periodically filled
With a Fox News fling

ISRAEL, UKRAINE, MEXICO

 

No aid to Israel and Ukraine
Until the new year, if then
The hold-up is the Mexican border
Which is as porous as a chicken pen
 
Senators are struggling
With immigration reforms
But the going is slow
Republicans want complete closure
Dems want, well it’s hard to figure

HUCKSTER OFF THE BALLOT

 

The Colorado Supreme Court
Says the Fourteenth Amendment
Keeps the Orange Huckster
Off the Colorado primary ballot
 
The ruling is certainly destined
For the U.S. Supreme Court
Even Justice Thomas might have to
Cut his multiple vacations short
 
A plethora of other election issues
Are inching to the Supremes
In the months ahead
The robed authorities will hear
A collection of weird legal themes
All due to the Orange Huckster
And his dictatorial dreams

TOO OLD

 

Nikki has called Joe “too old”
C’mon, Nikki, ya’ gotta be fair
If Joe is “too old”
So is the stumbling Orange Bear
Don’t shy away from an overt attack
On the cause of your party’s seismic crack
 
You would not be
An effective Presidential leader
If you’re not willing to unequivocally confront
The destructive narcissistic wannabe dictator

NIKKI COULD BEAT JOE

 

Nikki Haley could beat Joe Biden
Maybe even really good
But can Nikki beat the Orange Huckster?
Probably not because
The Grand Old Party
Has become a party of sycophants
Without any integrity

HOUSE TAKES A REST

 

The House went home for the holidays
Leaving the Senate with the task
Of finding a way through
The government’s financial morass
 
Meanwhile,
The Orange Huckster sinks ever deeper
Into his own morass
Of fabrications
Demagoguery, bigotry
And outlandish accusations

RUDY

 

Another milestone in the deflation
Of Rudy Giuliani
A jury award against him
In the amount of 148 million
For defamation
 
Poor, poor Rudy
Who really is poor
Because he’s broke
He has also become
A national joke

LESS THAN A YEAR

 

In less than a year
A new President
Will likely have been elected
What are the odds
Of the Orange Huckster being selected
Or hopefully rejected?
 
And will Putin
Still be the Russian leader?
If MAGA Republicans have their way
He will have been promoted dictator
 
Meanwhile,
Putin held a year-end presser
Claiming he’s the greatest ever
That Ukraine is a loser
And thanking his backers in America

SCRATCHING THE ITCH TO IMPEACH

 

The GOP-led House
Authorized a Biden impeachment inquiry
Based on nothing more than a desire
To please the Orange Presidential wannabe
 
Democracy may be
The best form of government
But at times it permits
Action by the incompetent

LITTLE CHANCE OF CONGRESSIONAL ACTION

 

Will Congress authorize aid
For the Israeli and Ukrainian nations
Before departing Washington
For holiday celebrations?
 
Seems to depend
On whether Biden and the Democratic Party
Are willing to take seriously
The MAGA Republicans
Closed border fantasy

At least to the extent

of not snickering too loudly

SPECIAL COUNSEL GOES ON OFFENSE

 

Special Counsel Jack Smith
Goes on the offensive
Asking the Supreme Court
To decide whether double jeopardy and immunity
Make the Orange Hoax’s alleged criminality
Not prosecutable Constitutionality
 
The Supremes rapidly agreed
To consider whether to consider the case
If the answer is in the affirmative
Then commences the race
 
Which is legal gibberish for saying
The Court agreed to decide
Whether to decide
So hold real tight
We’re in for a ride

CONGRESS A REFLECION OF US?

 

If the quality of the Congress
Is a reflection of the citizenry
America has a substantial number
In the lowest common denominator registry
 
Are you one of those?
If you are a follower of the Orange Hoax
Chances are you are
Among the lowest denominator folks

DOCTOR KEN PAXTON, GYNECOLOGIST

 

Doctor Ken Paxton
Is a Texas gynecologist
At least that must be his occupation
Otherwise, why would he
Be making a decision
Regarding a particular woman’s
Reproductive situation?

DELAY, DELAY, DELAY

 

Immunity, double jeopardy, gag orders
The attempt to bring justice
To the Orange Huckster
Is falling into a legal jungle
That could delay action to never
 
And delay is the strategy
The Huckster’s team is pursuing
Delay enough and maybe
The court cases will begin disappearing

GOP DETERIORATION

 

Wednesday’s night Presidential Debate
Leads to the conclusion
That the Grand Old Party
Has suffered considerable deterioration
 
There are now two GOP successors
One enthralled with and subservient to
The autocratic Orange Huckster
The other, smaller, based on conservative principles
And viewing the Huckster as just political theater

DAY ONE DICTATOR

 

The Orange Huckster says
A dictatorship on day one
As for after that he winks
And coyly suggests
He might or might not be done
 
Meanwhile,
Senate Republicans are saying
No more Ukrainian aid
Unless the porous border with Mexico
Receives a serious upgrade

PROTECT THE CRIMINALS

 

New House Speaker Johnson
Says he believes in the transparency principle
But apparently not all the way
If it results in exposure
Of a MAGA rioter criminal
 
So protect them rioters, Mike
From the consequences of their action
Never mind that they wanted
To overthrow the Constitution
 
Meanwhile,
Joe says he wouldn’t be running
Except for the Orange Huckster
Joe apparently thinks
He’s the only Dem that can beat
The MAGA Rooster
Hate to break the news, Joe
But you may be the only Dem
Who could be beaten by the Orange Loser
 
It’s your age, Joe
As a fellow octogenarian
I sympathize with your plight
But your analysis
Just might not be right
 
Meanwhile,
Tuberville mostly backs down
Only four-star officers
Missed the drum roll
So Dems, what’s the backup plan
To get those four-stars
Outta Tommy T’s black hole?

DICTATORSHIP COMING?

 

What do you call a wannabe leader
Who through fabrication and rambling oratory
Attracts a following among society’s
Lowest common denominator?
You call him a potential dictator
Say hello to the Orange Huckster

THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

 

The Orange Huckster is calling
Joe Biden a threat to democracy
That’s the same Orange Huckster
Who’s planning an autocracy
If he manages a return
To the Presidency
 
Meanwhile, Netanyahu is back
To killing Palestinian civilians
And adding to the hatreds
That have dominated the Middle East
For far too many generations

WAS NOT EATING

 

According to Liz Cheney
Kevin McCarthy said
The Orange Huckster “was not eating”
After he left office
So apparently Kevin was travelling
To Mar-a-Lago
To conduct a Huckster feeding
 
Really, Kevin?
“Was not eating”
Is not possible for the Huckster
Whose compulsive junk food intake
Obviously never came close to stopping

TWO FABRICATORS

 

What brought George Santos down?
The essence was a problem with the truth
That, and he came across as a clown
 
But isn’t the Orange Huckster
Also a fabricator?
Yes, but the Huckster is special
His army of worshippers
consider his fabrications
As nothing more than trivial
 
In addition, for these worshippers
The Huckster’s propensity to be uncouth
Is much more important than truth

ODDS AND ENDS

 

Will George Santos
Be thrown out of Congress?
Depends on how many Republicans
Support the fabulist
 
Just saw an ad on TV
For a funeral home
Switched the channel
After giving a moan
 
Putin is really into
Poisoning those he dislikes
Much easier than
Sabotaging their bikes
 
Elon Musk is striving to be
A complete jerk
Nobody achieves completeness, Elon
Not even someone
With your obnoxious smirk
You might have to settle
For a lesser perk
 
Does Nikki Haley have a shot
At burying the Orange Hoax?
Please help her, Lord
This ain’t no joke
 
Tommy the Dork Tuberville
Appears to be backing down
Although he claims he’s still against
Those wearing a “woke” gown

THE LESSER EVIL

 

Compared to the Orange Huckster
What is the lesser evil?
How about anybody or thing
Republican, Democrat, even a boll weevil?
 
Remember the weevil?
They destroy cotton crops
Leading to economic upheaval
But the Huckster is threatening
Societal and political destruction
That is almost primeval

LIZ CHENEY CASTIGATES HER PARTY

 

Liz Cheney has a new book
“Oath and Honor”
In which she castigates GOP
“Enablers and Collaborators”
Of the Orange Huckster’s effort
To join the ranks of traitors
 
Yes, traitors
The Huckster instigated
And continues to instigate
The overthrow of the government
That’s traitorous conduct
Not a First Amendment movement

WHAT THE HUCKSTER HAS WROUGHT

 

If you’re a public figure
And you criticize the Orange Huckster
You and your family will likely receive
Vitriol, obscenities, threats very sinister
 
Is this what democracy
Has descended into?
An undisciplined rabble
Whose values and conduct are askew?

JUST LIKE OLD TIMES

 

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer
Is in the Middle East
Covering the Israel-Hamas conflict
More than thirty years ago
With much less grey
And a younger and energetic glow
He was in the same corner of the globe
Dodging Iraqi scuds
Covering the First Gulf War show
Just like old times, eh Wolf?

HOSTAGE RELEASE

 

How did hostage release
In the Israel-Hamas disaster
Morph into a public spectacle
And a journalistic adventure?
 
Credit social media
And talking heads galore
What in the past
Would have been secretive
Today is a component of
A propaganda war

IS SPEAKER JOHNSON ON THE JOB?

Is new House Speaker Johnson
Preparing for the next budget deadline?
Or is he immersed
In Yuletide dine and wine?
 
And have the House MAGAs
Had chaos enough?
Or do they still want to show
They’re really tough stuff?

THANKSGIVING WISH

 

Thanksgiving
For what are we thankful?
That the Orange Huckster
Is no longer President
For what do we hope and pray?
That he does not again
Become the White House resident

SIXTY YEARS

 

Sixty years ago John F. Kennedy
Was assassinated in Dallas
One can contend it marked the end
Of the almost two-decade
Post-World War II period
Characterized by relative cultural stability
And the commencement of cultural volatility
That has lasted for six decades and culminated
In the Orange Huckster’s cultural hostility
And ill-disguised bigotry

TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY

 

Looks like the Orange Huckster
Is winning the gag order wars
Apparently no judge is willing
To emphatically say
This line is the no-no
Beyond which you do not go
 
The Huckster thrives
In such uncertainty
Legal fuzziness for him
Is a target of opportunity

MISS MANNERS

 

Judges are grappling with
The gag orders on the Orange Huckster
Should he be Miss Manners
Or allowed to threaten and slander?
 
Legitimate First Amendment issues
That the Founding Fathers did not foresee
How could they have imagined
A Presidential candidacy
from a belligerent orange monkey?

WANNABE DICTATOR

 

The Orange Huckster
Gave a speech in Iowa
In which he praised three dictators
Xi of China
Orban of Hungry and
Putin of Russia
 
It’s becoming obvious
That in addition to being
A world-class prevaricator
The Huckster is also
A wannabe dictator

MORAL CLARITY DIFFICULTIES

 

The Israel-Palestinian situation
Does not easily lend itself
To a moral winner position
 
You could be pro-Israel
But come to a conclusion
That Netanyahu’s heavy-handedness
In Gaza and the West Bank
Is not a proper solution
Or you could be pro-Palestinian
And supportive of a two-state formulation
But opposed to Hamas’
Brutality and terrorization
 
And these types of nuanced criticisms
Do not make one guilty
Of racial, ethnic, or religious
Bigotry and discrimination

MELANIA, WHEREFORE ART THOU?

 

Thanksgiving coming up
Time for turkey at Mar-a-Lago
No pardons for the Huckster’s birds
Unless Melania says “no”
 
Speaking of Melania
Don’t see much of her these days
Maybe that’s the cause
Of the Huckster’s recent raves

FOOT IN MOUTH

 

Joe opens mouth
Inserts foot
Xi is a “dictator”
Good job, Joe
At being an instigator
Not so great, Joe
At being a conciliator
 
Keep up the gaffes, Joe
And the Orange Huckster just might evict you
From Sixteen Hundred
Pennsylvania Avenue

CONGRESSIONAL PUGILISTIC UPDATE

 

Who hit who
In Congress today?
Did the Oklahoma tough hombre Senator
And the Teamster’s honcho
Ever get to play?
 
If you see Kevin McCarthy
Walking aggressively in your direction
Best be ready
For an elbow to the mid-section
 
Kevin, why not save
Your assault proclivities
For Matt Gaetz
Who certainly deserves at least
A whack at his extremities?

KUDOS TO MIKE

 

Kudos to new House Speaker Johnson
With massive Democrat support
He got his convoluted budget plan
Past the wacko MAGA dam
 
Now it’s to the Senate
Where hopefully it won’t be rejected
And then to the White House
Where Joe’s agreement is expected
 
So no government shutdown
This coming weekend
Onward to January and February
When the game will likely be played again

CODE OF CONDUCT FOR CLARENCE AND SAM

 

The Supreme Court has issued
A Code of Conduct for Justices
To impose controls on outliers
Like Clarence and Samuel
Who seem to have problems
With ethically related matters
 
Meanwhile Netanyahu
Continues to harm Israel’s cause
With excessive brutality
And little evidence of humanity

DOOMED PLAN

 

New House Speaker Johnson
Has put forward a two-phase plan
That has the proverbial
Snowball’s chance in hell
Of reaching the Promise Land
 
The MAGA far-right whack-jobs
Many other Republicans
And practically all Democrats
Think the plan is a non-starter
So the ball remains in your court, Mike
Five days until disaster
 
You might need Dems
To avoid failure
Too many members of your party
Would enjoy a government closure

NOVEMBER 18, 1967

 

On November 18, 1967
Alpha Company ascended Hill 882
Most survived, but a few did not
The memory of them
Still burns hot

ONLY A WEEK

 

In only a week
MAGA Mike Johnson, the new House Speaker
Will have shown whether
He’s just another Republican bottom feeder
Or has the makings of a competent leader
 
The test is federal government funding
Can agreement be reached
On this necessary matter
Or will MAGA intransigence
Lead to disaster?

HUCKSTER’S KIDS TESTIFY

 

Eric, Don Jr., Ivanka
Do you recognize these documents?
“Looks like a lotta numbers to us
Numbers shouldn’t cause a fuss”
 
These are financial statements
About the status of the Trump enterprise
They show shenanigans
That cause legal questions to rise
 
“Oh, not our Dad
He’s been a wonderful father
We weren’t involved in money
Financial statements are such a bother”
 
Meanwhile,
Hey, Colbert
You calling it quits?
Kimmel and Fallon are doing new shows
You seem mired in repeats

PRESIDENT YOUNGKIN?

 

Looks like there won’t be
A President Glenn Youngkin
His political future took a gut-punch
From his fifteen-week limit on abortion
 
So maybe back to the Carlyle Group
Make a bunch more money
And think about what might have been
If you’d struck political honey
And your red vest wasn’t so funny
 
Meanwhile, the new House Speaker
Says “trust us” about government financing
Less than two weeks, Mike
You sure you aren’t just wishing and hoping
And your right flank wackos aren’t controlling?

ELECTIONS 2023

 

Election night, what is the result?
 
In Ohio
A Constitutional right to abortion
 
In Kentucky
Democrat Governor Andy Beshear’s reelection
 
In Virginia
Results still unofficial, but Republican efforts
To take both Houses of the General Assembly
Apparently suffered rejection

LISTEN UP, MAGAS

 

He’s an extraordinary individual
Was the essence of his testimony
Therefore, whatever he says
Has unquestionable believability
 
Listen up, MAGAS
Do you hate your government so much
And have so little respect for your country
That you would return the Orange Huckster
To the Presidency
Where he could possibly
Destroy the rule of law completely?