Month: May 2021

‘‘Twas fifty four to thirty five, the yeas against the nays
You’d think the yeas would have it; right?
But Congress sees a different sight
By them the nays have clearly won
It is the way the Senate runs
They do as Mitch McConnell says

The worst in all our history, Trump’s mob’s reviled attack
Against our nation’s Capital
Their goal was insurrectional
To thwart our core democracy
Replace it with autocracy
Believing Trump’s Big Lie and not the facts

The vote: for an autonomous bipartisan commission
To get the truth on what took place
But truth for some’s too hard to face
Republicans, most voted nay
All hypocrites in what they say
And to the cult of Trump they’re in submission

So what are Democrats to do, a cloture vote needs sixty?
They could outlaw the filibuster
Fifty votes they’d have to muster;
Manchin and Sen. Sinema, however,
Both decline that rule right now to sever
So, five and thirty votes beats four and fifty

5/29/2021

‘Twas last week I said that Liz Chaney was out
Today they made it official
It wasn’t my prescience; there wasn’t a doubt
The Party thought it beneficial
But Liz isn’t quitting
She’s just begun hitting
Those Trump lovers sitting
Supporting Trump’s lies

Today I would say don’t count Liz Chaney out
Today she is freer than ever
To stand her ground wielding her self righteous clout
Embracing her latest endeavor
Her Party to rescue
From Trumpism’s venue
For if it continues
Democracy dies

5/12/2021

Republican leader, Liz Chaney is out
Her role in the House she’ll no longer reside
And what did she do that has brought this about
She broadcast the truth about Donald’s Big Lie

Now Liz is as right wing as Congressmen get
As old-time Republican policies go
She’s hardly a moderate, that said and yet
They voted her out, though the truth they all know

They fear if they don’t do what Donald Trump says
In spite of the fact that they know he’s despicable
They’d lose reelection the way his game plays
Such fate, to these Congressmen, truly unthinkable

The Party that once was the proud G.O.P.
That once upheld policies rightly conservative
Has lost all its relevance toward bills to be
Its standing diminished on matters deliberative

5/5/2021