Month: October 2017

 

“The walls are closing in” and “Everyone is freaking out.”
Quotes leaked from the White House; Trump is fuming o’er the news
Of Manafort’s and Gates indictments, Papadopoulos too
But Papadopoulos pled guilty that’s what this is all about

He admitted having lied to the FBI before
That was January; since, arrested in July
He was actively colluding with the Russians on the sly
He reported up the chain and was encouraged to do more

Ever since he’s been “proactive” for the Mueller quest
To reduce his prison sentence to some months instead of years
It is likely he’s been wired to record what all he hears
This has made the West Wing wary, things they said they might regret

Manafort and Gates, not guilty pleas on Mueller’s counts:
Cash laundering to fraud and to conspiring con the State’s
These charges will hold up in court,; there’re years of jail at stake
I think both men will bargain pleas and won’t take this to court

I would expect when that time comes Don Trump’s restraint won’t hold
He’ll do whatever might succeed to force Bob Mueller out
By then the Counsel’s case will be air tight beyond a doubt
The FBI would carry on to finish Mueller’s probe

10/17/30

 

Senator Corker on Trump, his conclusions
He spoke loud and clear as a warning to all
He also said others agreed in seclusion
While publicly heeding Trump’s loyalty call

Dems go their own way while the Reps fall in line
That seems to have happened this Trumpean fest
The word now is unity, drink the same wine
And vote for whatever the leaders deem best

Let’s all shed a tear for Republican colleagues
Who find they must Party and Country choose ‘tween
Of course they’ll choose Party, the Devil’s in league
Existential, Trump’s danger they see while not seen

10/28/17

 

New news: CNN has reported tonight
A federal grand jury has issued a “true bill”
That is an indictment, the first one in sight
For Mueller it demonstrates sharply honed skill

It’s been in the atmosphere something’s afoot
Trump’s Fox News supporters have trumped up diversions
Clinton conspiracies all lamely put
Involving uranium, treason and Russians

We know not the target of Mueller’s indictment
The judge ordered that all the charges be sealed
So as not to forewarn or encourage incitement
It’s expected the charges will soon be revealed

It’s clear to most everyone Russia attacked
Our country’s elections and blatantly too
It appears Trump’s conspirators joined in these acts
And the Reps. fear the probe will reveal that it’s true

10/28/17

 

 

Inconsistencies plethoric characterize Trump’s regime
Trump reverses so often his staff members scream
That’s why nothing, that’s nothing gets done, it would seem
Plus the staff he has hired, of the crop, not the cream

An exception, however, his Cabinet candidates
An amazing consistency choosing these reprobates
Excepting his generals, they suffer a common state
Of being opposed to what their fiefdom regulates

One such was Tom Price, former HHS Secretary
Who appointed E. Scott Lloyd to head the subsidiary
Office resettling caught refugees ordinary
Lloyd, inexperienced, but abortionist extraordinary

Jane Doe, seventeen, fleeing violent atrocities
Was captured, confined in a Texas facility
Under Lloyd’s supervision of the Texas bureaucracy
He refused to allow her to abort early pregnancy

Due to ACLU she was finally permitted
To have her abortion, her persistence requited
This is just one example of persons unfitted
The jobs they’re assigned by a boss so dim witted

10/26/17

 

It’s hard to decide what disgusting to write
Psychotic behavior by Trump on this day
Paul Ryan’s absurd take on Corker and Flake
Republican Senators quaking in fright

Trump so informed us just how brilliant his brain
In that he went to Wharton, an ivy-league school
His recall is perfect; his manner is cool
Myeshia was under too much of a strain

Paul Ryan decried Corker’s ongoing feud
As well as Jeff Flake’s with the Rep. president
They should say things quietly when giving vent
The Party’s appearance united we stood

Republican Senators caught in between
A rock and a hard place: their honor or seat
Their honor so far seems to be in retreat
They haven’t the guts to cut Trump from the scene

Paul Ryan knows well that a feud this is not
It’s a clarion call on the dangers ahead
But into a dark place he’s sticking his head
A profile in cowardice will be his lot

Trump can’t say he’s sorry he was misunderstood
To a grieving war widow who is missing her mate
He, instead, touts his memory since that’s what’s at stake
Trump’s lack of sincerity, comforting words

My sense is the world is still holding it breath
While Trump and his Congress are playing their games
And as things deteriorate keep dodging the blame
This last line, I hesitate since it ends with death

10/25/17

 

 

 

Jeff cast off his spurs and he’ll no longer race
The next Senate session will not see his face
Some Bannon hard liner will run in his place
He’s quitting avoiding the Trumpish disgrace

Jeff Flake, libertarian leaning conservative
Voted with Trump on his major initiatives
On trade, immigration, those, he didn’t give
But the flaws of Trump’s nature Flake couldn’t forgive

Jeff’s speech to the Senate was eloquent, formal
He warned against treating Trump’s nature as normal
Condoning a tyrant is always immoral
To his own higher nature Jeff had to be loyal

Although many senators felt much the same
In public they couldn’t so sully their name
They’d lose in the primaries; go down in flame
And that’s more important than self-righteous fame

So Dems Arizonan this, now, is your chance
The Party’s agenda is yours to advance
Against Trump’s corruption by taking a stance
And taking back Congress our clout to enhance

10/24/17

 

We learned from the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General Joseph F. Dunford, Commandant of Marines,
Some facts on the ambush that sent flags half mast
And left loved ones grieving in publicized scenes

The ambush took place in the town, Tongo Tongo
A detail of twenty, or so, came to town
To visit the chief of the tribe, village honcho
On leaving the village they then were mowed down

Surveillance was missing; no drone overhead
It took more an hour for word to get out
A French helicopter took those who weren’t dead
And rescued them safely; their mission a rout

Buzfeed also learned in their own interviews
That the detail itself was unduly detained
By the villagers siding with terrorist crews
Thus allowing one ambush and one that was feigned

They fought the feigned ambush an hour or so
Then met the main ambush, some fifty men strong
With mortars, machine guns and rockets to go
The Pentagon’s trying to learn what went wrong

When all said and done green berets, four men dead
They have been laid to rest. Their commander in chief,
Now it’s day twenty one, not a word has he said
On the death of these men, not a tweet, absent grief

Due to public outcry, at a furious pace
Formal letters, condolence, Trump’s staff’s mailing out
To all gold-star families since Trump took his place
As Commander in Chief. Their effects, I have doubts

But Trump, being Trump always needs be in fights
Now a young gold-star widow and a House member too
Both are black, both are female, having Trump dead to rights
This is Trump’s new distraction from the deaths he must rue

But politically the casualty is General John Kelly
Who sold his soul lying for Don Trump, his boss
It is really unfortunate that his word is but jelly
As Trump’s Chief of Staff, we are all at a loss

10/23/17

It’s time to consider two thousand eighteen
The House and the Senate are both up for grabs
The question I pose is: what should be the theme
For Democrats so that both houses they nab

I’ll start with the subjects that I would reject
Anything anti-Trump, his faults are known
I’d not push impeachment; Mike Pence is worse yet
Nor dwell on the good things that Trump has undone

My number-one message is bipartisanship
I’d echo McCain; get Republican votes
Both sides of the aisle is what most voters wish
And Trump will sign on if his name is of note

Repairing Obama Care, number-one goal
Reform of the tax code, Medicare, Medicaid
Rebuild infrastructure, our bridges, our roads
Rejoin the world’s nation’s and stop Trump’s charade

This might sound Republican; that is on purpose
The one fifteenth Congress is one of the worst
What the voters desired, Congress couldn’t produce
That opened for Dems in each race to be first

10/21/17

 

Myeshia Johnson, grieving mother
Mother of La David T.
Killed in Niger with three others
Time for all to let her be

General Kelly also grieving
For his son lost in Afghan.
It’s hard and hard beyond perceiving
Left for war, not coming back

The General’s strong soliloquy
Explained Trump’s clumsy messaging
Since Trump’s devoid of empathy,
His words all had a hollow ring

Rep. Wilson, Dem, was in the car
When Mrs. Johnson took Trump’s call
Trump’s flippant tone, her senses jarred
And told the Press what she recalled

The President denied he said
What Johnson quoted him to state
And called her liar to her head.
Black women he can’t tolerate

But General Kelly stole the show
By fabricating from thin air
A tale of Johnson false, not so
With video proof that’s o’contrare

It saddens me to realize
A four-star General, a Marine
Would, like his boss, resort to lies
We thought “adult”; no longer seen

10/20/17

 

Rachel Maddow leads the pack
Of news reporters known of date
She’s to the chase. She seeks the facts
Where other only speculate

Four Green Berets in old Niger
We’re ambushed, killed by ISIS men
A routine visit, often there
This time was different why and when?

It all dates back to travel bans
Installed by Trump on Muslim nation’s
This time it included Chad
With soldiers best of local nations

Chad then withdrew its special forces
From its neighbors, from Niger
According to the Maddow sources
This emboldened ISIS there

Conjecture? Yes, but it makes sense
And what of Trump’s new quietness
On this occurrence; why suspense?
Trump broadcasts only of success

The really sad thing, all things said and done
Is that the nation Chad got on Trump’s list
Due to a clerk’s decision that was dumb
Four soldiers killed. Ineptitude! I’m pissed!

10/19/17