ELECTION INTEGRITY

 

Governor-Elect Glenn Youngkin
Is hot on election integrity
So much so his underage son
Tested election security
 
Junior wasn’t able to vote
As security was pretty tight
Thus demonstrating to Dad
That integrity was about right
 
Next target for Junior could be
Critical race theory
Maybe he’ll catch a teacher
Acknowledging the nation’s complex history

FOUR POLITICAL PARTIES

 

America now has
Four major political parties
Moderate Democrats
Moderate Republicans (the smallest)
Whack job Democrats
Orange Hoax-worshipping Republicans
 
Can the moderates hold
As the fringes rampage?
Let’s hope that’s the case
So we can eventually exit
This political dark age

IGNORE THE ORANGE HOAX

 

Dems thought
They were on top
Then came Virginia
And a massive belly flop
 
Focusing on the Orange Hoax
Did not produce victory
Maybe Dems should learn from Youngkin
And ignore the Hoax in his misery
 
Act like he’s not there
Concentrate on issues
Treat him like the dowdy uncle
Who is ignored at family barbecues

DEMS BLOW IT

 

It began with
The Afghanistan debacle
Accelerated with
The budget muddle
Culminated with
The parent-school kerfuffle
 
Dems managed to snatch
Defeat from the jaws of victory
Thus adding a new chapter
To their stumbling history

UNCERTAINTY IN THE OLD DOMINION

 

The Virginia race may turn
On the power of local whackos
The ones who scream and yell
At school boards and liberal TV shows
 
McAuliffe brought in surrogates
Unfortunately they were Democrats
Who since the Afghanistan debacle
Have been losing the public’s confidence
 
As inept as he was
Youngkin was largely his own man
Relying on little overt help
From an out-of-state caravan
 
So down to the wire it is
No predictions here
Other than we’ll all
Need a strong beer

TRICK OR TREAT, 2021 VERSION

 

I know where you live
So gimme some candy
Or I’ll get really
Angry and nasty

VIRGINIA’S NEXT GOVERNOR

 

The Governor’s race in Virginia
Is in the national spotlight
Is it about the Orange Hoax
Or school kid’s parents
Who aren’t too bright?
 
It certainly has become
More focused on cultural issues
Than on the usual
Economic policies and values
 
What have Virginians learned?
The Youngkin is a pretty boy
With a wandering lock of hair
And McAuliffe dances like
A drunken grizzly bear

JOE AND THE POPE

 

Joe and the Pope
Had a tete-a-tete
Then Joe went to Macron
And apologized for being inept
 
Meanwhile back home
Dems continued their meandering
Unable to agree on
What to do about legislating
 
But back to Joe and the Pope
Joe says the Pontiff agreed
To Joe getting Communion
Despite some American bishops’ view
That on the abortion issue
Joe is definitely a heathen

DEMOCRAT REGRESSIVES

 

Joe Biden said
I want this done
If not, my Europe trip
Won’t be much fun
 
Democrat Progressives responded
Don’t push us around
We like playing
The goofy clown

MITCH ENDORSES HERSCHEL

 

Mitch endorses Herschel
A decidedly questionable candidate
But Mitch sees a winner
Which makes his heart palpitate
 
A Republican Senate
Is Mitch’s goal
For that he would sell
His already dark soul

DEMS LIMP TOWARD GOAL LINE

 

Congressional Democrats are struggling
To get something done
Republicans are snickering
Enjoying the fun
 
Senator Bernie Sanders
Is not helping
He insists on Medicare expansion
About which he can’t stop yelping
 
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Is optimistic
But she could see the bright side
Of a pandemic
 
Senators Manchin and Sinema
Are playing hard ball
Without them on board
The legislation takes a fall

NO MORE “LIKES”

 

The “Like” thing has
Long been an anachronism
Facebook has evolved
Into a tool of vandalism
 
Cute pics of the kids
For adoring grandparents
Have taken second place
To conspiracies and hate-filled rants

REPUBLICAN REALITY SHOW

 

The Republican Party is becoming
A bona vide reality show
Your opponents try to go high
You go really low
 
Service to the nation
Doesn’t seem to be the game
Power for self-enrichment
Describes a more accurate aim

ANOTHER CRACK IN LIBERTY BELL

 

Some Republicans are degenerating
Into a hate speech hell
Rational discourse is fading
As a new crack appears
In the Liberty Bell
 
Can democracy survive
A turn to incivility
To vulgar language
To anonymous threatening hostility?

HOAX’S WEBPAGE BOMBS

 

The Orange Hoax is trying
To launch a webpage
The initial efforts show
That his team’s tech knowledge
Is pure ice age

STEVIE BANNON

 

Little Stevie Bannon
One-time hot shot
At Virginia Tech
Is in contempt of Congress
And incidentally he looks a wreck
 
But will Congress’ action
Result in consequences?
That is an unknown
As many are the procrastinating defenses

MATT GAETZ MAKES AN APPEARANCE

 

Congressman Matt Gaetz
Is back in the news
Espousing some rather
Bizarre views
 
Mail-in ballots
Polluted the election
Matt’s sure of this
Thus the Hoax suffered no rejection
 
Matt also claimed
On the House floor
That someone is trying to off him
Could the Sergeant at Arms
Please shut the door?

PARENTS AND SCHOOLS

 

Parents and schools
Are an issue
In the Virginia Governor’s race
Which has become a zoo
 
But it’s not all parents
Just a select few
Who really like being
Spectacles in the zoo
 
Some folks just want the limelight
So they make like they’re freaky
By poking a finger into
The eye of authority

COLIN POWELL

 

A true American patriot
Has passed away
General Colin Powell
Did not political games play
 
Wannabe leaders
Of the nation
Could have no better model
For emulation

ARIZONA DIVA

 

Arizona’s Senator Sinema
Is quite the thing
No one has figured her out
Including Joe Biden
 
Maybe she wants attention
Maybe she’s a loose cannon
Maybe she’s a whimsical person
Or maybe she’s just a fruit-loop

CAN TEXAS BE CORRECTED?

 

Texas wants opposing views
On stuff like the Holocaust
Some might contend the state
Is mentally and morally lost
 
And they may
Just be right
With Abbott as Governor
And Cruz as Senator
The state is obviously considering
Intellectual surrender

DEMS STUMBLING

 

Dems are still trying
To produce legislation
But not having much luck
Because of moderate-progressive division
 
Progressives are running the risk
Of getting pretty much nothing
But they still insist on
Winning over compromising

DO NOT VOTE

 

The Odious Orange Outrage
Is telling voters
Don’t vote if they think
The election system is bonkers
 
So, no more get out the vote?
Perhaps seek alternatives
To the democratic process
Such as autocratic rule
By an orange-headed albatross?

SUPPLY CHAIN GOES BELLYUP

 

Supply chain problems
Worker shortages
Americans quitting jobs
Outdated facilities
 
The media has determined
There is an economic disaster
So drop everything else
And find solutions faster
 
But today’s politicians
Don’t seem very capable
They’re more concerned with
Not getting jettisoned
From the political stable

ABBOTT'S GOAL

 

How is Texas doing
In reaching the Governor’s goal
Of eliminating all rapes
Even those by inebriated cowpokes
Incapable of platonic dates?

DAINTY AND NICE

 

The Odious Orange Outrage said
To be a successful leader
You can’t be dainty and nice
Implying that you have to be
As cold as glacial ice
 
Accepted leadership principles
Have completely bypassed the Hoax
Compromise and reasonableness
He regards as colossal jokes

CHINA

 

China is threatening Taiwan
Virtually an American protectorate
This has the potential of being
More than a verbal debate
 
China has long asserted
Taiwan was its to regain
And is unlikely to halt efforts
To restore its domain

IDAHO POLITICS

 

Idaho is presenting the nation
With a bit of political comedy
The Governor visited out-of-state
And the Lieutenant Governor sought
To exercise the Governor’s authority
 
It was all a bit of a joke
No harm was done
Just shows you in the West
Politicians have a strange sense of fun

THE HOAX’S FOLLOWERS

 

Who are the followers
Of the Odious Orange Outrage?
Why do so many citizens
Remain on his stage?
 
Alienation is the essence
Flavored with a hefty helping
Of good ol’ American
Don’t-tread-on-me topping
 
Rebellion is in America’s blood
Sometimes it has been justified
More often, however, it is evidence
Of a particularly thin-skinned hide

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

The Orange Hoax is attempting
To assert executive privilege
Over having former aides
Spill the beans on his election rampage
 
But does executive privilege
Apply to a has-been president
One who was voted out
As the White House resident?
 
Meanwhile Chuck Grassley suggests
The Odious Orange Rejection
Was just funning when he ordered
The Department of Justice
To overturn the election

GOVERNMENT BY KICKING THE CAN

 

Kicking the can
Down the road
Is how Mitch wants to handle
The debt limit load
 
Don’t solve a problem now
When delay is available
Let’s keep the rotting mess
Squarely on the table

LIKES

 

What’s not to like?
A social media site
That allows you to spread
Lies left and right
 
An advertising juggernaut
That has eliminated your privacy
That knows precisely how
To rattle your cage
In the name of lots of money

PARTISANSHIP AND THE GOP

 

Latest partisanship outrage
The GOP playing Russian Roulette
Among other games
With the national debt
 
The Party helped create it
Particularly during the Hoax’s years
Now it doesn’t want to help
Easing the nation’s fears

VERBAL LITTER

 

The Odious Orange Outrage
Wants back on Twitter
Just what we need
More verbal litter

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RECESS

 

Dems are hunkering down
Trying to find a compromise
The odds are not great
Which doesn’t take a genius to surmise

GOVERNING CHOICE

Which would you prefer
Running the country
A Democratic-controlled Congress
Which is a pretty dysfunctional body?
 
Or an autocratic President
With no ethics or morality
Whose actions include
significant criminality? 

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

THE MIDDLE EAST SAND TRAP

 

The Middle East
Wow! What a place
Lawrence of Arabia
Thought he understood it
But he departed without leaving
Much of a trace
 
The Orange Hoax
Gave it a try
But the Saudi guy
Stuck a finger
In the Hoax’s eye