Month: February 2017

 

The Ninth Circuit Federal Court deciding
To stay the stay or not to stay the stay
Three circuit judges on the court residing
They heard the oral arguments today

The question: should the stay-of-ban remain
While constitutionality debates
Deliberately ascend the legal chain
Until our Court Supreme decides it’s fate

There is no question that the President
Has power over alien admissions
Just who’s permitted to be resident
Resisting terror is Trump’s strong position

Trump’s legal strength has limits, though its vast
Our Constitution it can’t violate
It must be rational and based on facts
And, too, our way of life perpetuate

2/7/17

 

The week that is, though Monday still, could occupy the year
The Democratic senators are filibustering
Against DeVos for Education; more protests to hear
Convincing one more Senator to vote no, that’s their thing

Trump’s ties to Russia’s Putin get more murky day by day
That Trump equates war killings by the US in Iraq
To Putin’s murders of opponents; blasphemy I’d say
It might imply some hidden ties that govern how he acts

Judge Robart was denounced by Trump for ruling on the Ban
A personal affront it was to counter Trump’s EO
Judicial independence, something Trump can’t understand
And Trump’s gnathonic Congressmen keep quiet, ‘though they know

Apparently, Trump signs EOs not having read them through
Just like the one appointing Bannon to the NSC
Paul Ryan must be over joyed, no checks on what he’ll do
I hold my head just thinking what tomorrow’s news might be

2/6/17

 

Like most of you, I was transfixed throughout the football game
And even colors of their jerseys were to me symbolic
Atlanta Falcons, red, New England blue, and, too, the name –
The name of Patriots, rung true to this politiholic

However, I must say Mat Ryan’s team was quarterbacked
With skill and lots of will I can’t deny
Quite like the Speaker Ryan managing his motley pack
Except that Falcons teamed together, do or die

Tom Brady, QB Patriots, would not give up his dream
With scores: red twenty eight and blue just nine
He persevered, the quarter last and tied the Falcon team
It forced the game to go to overtime

The coin-toss, won by Patriots, the game, now, sudden death
Then Brady drove right down the field with passes and with runs
Third down, within ten yards of goal, we all just held our breath
Then Jimmy White dove ‘cross the goal, the Patriots had won

The game, a metaphor, to me: the red against the blue
Where, even though the reds were winning, blue kept fighting on
Against all odds, when things got tough, they persevered right through
Their iron fortitude prevailed when hope, to us, seemed gone

2/5/17

Jared commentes on ‘The golded door…’ and Mark commented on ‘Dilemma’

Did You Know?

In Bannon/Trump’s EO on sanctuary cities
At paragraph 9b: the Secretary
Shall make public all offenses by our aliens
Shades of Nazi rag Der Sturmer’s listing of such Jews

Congress just rescinded EPA’s protection rule
For water ways imperiled by coal mines
No longer do they have to have environments restored
When mining operations are complete

EOs weakening Dodd-Frank have just been signed
Soon banks can make far riskier investments
And those who give advice on buying/selling stocks
Don’t have to put their client’s interest first

Trump now opposes further new Israeli settlement
Of Territories Palestinian
We don’t know what caused Trump to change his mind
Nor do we know if it will change again

The reckless speed of Trump’s EO-ing often masks the news
Of edicts passed but lost within news queues
I think this is deliberate when Trump wants to hide from view
Important things he’s trying to undo

2/4/17

 

The Democrats in Congress find themselves in a dilemma
To be or not to be responsive to the street
Where thousands gather daily politicking with their feet
Demanding firm RESISTANCE to Republican agendas

Whomever Trump proposes, turn him down; just say no
The same goes for Paul Ryan and McConnel; just say no
And also to Neil Gorsuch tagged for SCOTUS just say no
Treat Reps. the way they treated Dems. say no; just say no

But Democrats don’t deal that way, they vote in moderation
Considering each article of pending legislation
It matters not who sponsored it for joint negotiation
It only matters whether it will benefit the nation

The country is divided; half is red and half is blue
And neither’s of the mind to find a way to compromise
By furthering divisiveness democracy will die
What’s needed is real leadership and no ones there in view

1/3/17

 

Bannon, Bannon everywhere
In Trumple’s mind
In Trumple’s hair
The Council for Security
Brown-nosing Trumple’s vanity
Steve overrules Department heads
And drafted EOs Trump has read
He’s Trumple’s voice
Each Trumple choice
It’s rarely Trump’s, Bannon’s instead
The dispossessed all voted TRUMP
Instead they got this Bannon chump
Where White’s supreme
That’s Bannon’s dream
By now it’s clearly evident
Steve Bannon’s Acting President

2/2/17

 

A dozen days of Trump, can you believe it?
It seems like months, the damage he’s decreed
His shock and awe agenda, he’s achieved it
Ignoring constitutionality

With Mexico, Australia and Iran
Trump managed to embarrass and to threaten
Their heads of state as only Donald can
Our allies ’round the world are left uncertain

The Muslim ban has set off protests country wide
‘Twas judged unconstitutional on many counts
Trump’s nominee for SCOTUS Dems will not abide
McConnell will go nuclear without a doubt

The people by the thousands to the streets have flocked
And to their Senators and Congressmen they’ve run
Opposing Trump’s agenda, nominees to block
RESIST, RESIST until Don Trump is gone

2/1/17

 

Neil Gorsuch nominated to our highest court
His background, his degrees impeccable
His history of rulings causes me much doubt
Republicans will find him quite acceptable

And normally, the Demos wouldn’t thwart their will
As long as he was qualified, which he does meet
But that seat was Obama’s choice, ’twas his to fill
And he chose Merit Garland for Scalia’s seat

Republicans in Congress made it clear
Six years ago, that they would all defeat
Proposals by Obama all those years
Including Garland’s chance to take that seat

It’s payback time. It’s time to take a stance
Just one and forty Senators are needed
To block the vote so Gorsuch can’t advance
And we’ll observe whose wishes were so heeded

1/31/17