Bush & Company

The Gingriches have a new credit line at Tiffany's, this time for a cool million.

Newt has another credit line---
Can you believe it's even more,
Much more than what he had before?
Could this be some sort of a sign

He's not as frugal as he thought?
He certainly must be aware
That strings of pearls and silverware
Are cheaper at a bargain store

Than Tiffany's and the things he bought
Would have to cost a whole lot less
And so in turn relieve the stress
From late night comics and the press.

The truth is out: the real reason behind House budget committee chair Paul Ryan's adamant stand on his budget bill that advocates, among other obscenities, the privatization of Medicare.

Ryan and his wife own stakes in four companies owned by his father-in-law which lease land in Oklahoma and Texas to energy companies---Chesapeake Energy, Devon, XTO Energy and an ExxonMobil subsidiary. All profit from the tax subsidies the Ryan plan backs and express their gratitude accordingly.

Not only a clear conflict of interest, this should also be a moral dilemma, Were his plan adopted, underfunded programs, created to benefit the majority, would be further cut, with horrific negative effects on the vulnerable.

The Ryans have already gained $177,000 from these stakes and have assets worth upwards of $2.5 million as well as income from Mrs. Ryan's other family enterprises. Mr. Ryan may have in his sights other unethically gained riches at least equivalent to those of many of his older House colleagues.

The infamous plan can be considered a barometer for what the GOP has become. With poetic justice, without being signed into law, it wields enough power to undo those in the party who are supporting it or who once did.

Now we know the reason why
Mr. Ryan has to lie.
That budget plan is just a way
To make a lot of extra pay.

It's good to be a congressman
So you can write a heartless plan
That overshadows all your peers---
Those other callous profiteers.

Is that the reason that he ran
To be a U S Congress man?

The highly presentable Republican presidential hopeful ex-governor/ex-ambassador Jon Huntsman, who bills himself as his own man, who's already flipflopped in his barely begun campaign, is more like his highly presentable fellow Mormon Republican rival Mitt Romney than he would like. Attempting to dispel the fact of their similarities is his ad of a bold, cool, speeding dirt biker navigating a stark, rough terrain; but the rider isn't Huntsman. He's a hired stunt man. The ad creator tries to mitigate this, saying that the rider is "wearing his (huntsman's) clothes."

A very funny ad for another Republican,candidate, Rick Santorum, counters the Huntsman ad with a biker boldly speeding over rough terrain and ending up in the dirt.

What else is new, flipflopper Jon?
We're looking at your silly con;
We know that it's not really you
Who's braving that austere terrain---

A stunt man out of Hollywood,
Perhaps; your people said they would
Be able (have no doubt) to woo
The voters with their ad campaign;

But that idea they're trying to sell
I don't guess anyone will buy,
Not even just a little bit
That you're a different kind of guy.

At least, as far as I can tell,
You, Jon, are just another Mitt.

Republican Mitt Romney, now officially a 2012 presidential candidate, has made the rash promise, "If I become president, I will repeal Obamacare."

He also stated categorically that President Obama has "failed" and that he will make the United States the top creator of jobs.

Mitt Romney, whose state of Massachusetts during his term as governor has been rated as #47 in job growth by the U S Department of Labor;

Mitt Romney, whose former private equity firm, Bain Capital, a funder for his political runs, used various financial strategies that predictably caused the collapse of multiple companies, resulting in the loss of thousands of jobs, but in hundreds of millions of dollars for himself; a destroyer of jobs, not a creator, himself currently worth at least $200 million, recently joking to a small gathering of eight unemployed at the Buddy Brew coffee shop in Tampa, "I'm also unemployed";

Mitt Romney, whose excellent Massachusetts health care plan he continues to obfuscate because President Obama's law is patterned after it;

the seasoned business mogul and politician easily slides into denial and contradiction and is usually loath to admit error.

The ideal president willingly adknowledges mistakes and is as consistent as possible in a mercurial political climate while subscribing honestly to his basic convictions.

The presidential-looking Mitt
May really not be up to it.
The country's not a corporation,
A company isn't like the nation.

A balanced budget on the backs
Of those distressed or needy lacks
The true concern some presidents show;
That people count, some presidents know.

Is he just one more empty suit?
What's sure, something we can't dispute,
At waffling he's a shameless pro
Exceeded by no one but Newt.

The Democrats have lost their last real fighter, their chief Democratic defender.

You were a fool, Anthony, but your rashness, your compulsive exhibitionism and perhaps your desire to be caught and stopped may now allow you to serve again.

Come back, Anthony---you're needed.

Now that Mitt Romney is officially running for president, Fred Karger, a lesser-known competitor for the nomination, is back in the news. He wants the fact well known of the fabulously wealthy Mitt and Ann Romney's unlikely use of their oldest son Tagg's unfinished basement in Belmont, Massachusetts, as their "primary residence," near the family home they had recently sold. This was done ostensibly so they could vote in Massachusetts in 2010 for Scott Brown, now Senator Brown, filling Ted Kennedy's empty seat, and for other Republican candidates.

The senior Romneys currently own two homes---in La Jolla, California and on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. A foremost New Hampshire newspaper is said to have described Mitt as an "unscrupulous opportunist" in connection with the apparent flimflam, a far cry from his squeaky clean image of the past.

In Massachusetts, the definition of a residence is "where a person dwells and which is the center of his domestic, social, and civil life." The penalty for fraudulent voter registration is $10,000 and up to five years jail time

It happened back in 2009. . .

I heard a funny thing today---
Mitt and Ann are going to stay
In the basement of their son,
Where the washing up is done.

Likely they're not paying rent;
Better they should pitch a tent
Outside on the family's lawn,
Making sure to rise by dawn,

Lest some nosy neighbors think
Romney's fortune's on the blink;
Then perhaps the two could stay
In the house during the day;

Mitt could tend to his affairs
And his presidential run
From a little room upstairs.
.

Why would Newt and Callista Gingrich choose to tour the Greek Islands at the beginning of Newt's presidential campaign? Was the perfectly poised and otherwise flawless Callista, some speculate to be a controlling force in their so-called equal-partnerswhip marriage, behind the damaging decision, even though she may entertain a fervent determination to be First Lady? They came home to learn that Newt's entire staff had quit.

Newt's shrewd and experienced staffers were well aware of how lackadaisical he was about his campaign and of his personal excesses---lavish spending on four-star restaurants, executive chauffeur service and private jets; and moreover, donor interest was sluggish. Would they ever be paid?

The cruise was the ideal opportunity for them to take off, perhaps to greener pastures, like Texas, to join Gov. Rick Perry in his expected run. He's a surer bet, anyway.

What a time, Newt, for a trip!
I suppose you heard the news
When you got back from your cruise
That your aides were jumping ship!

Likely, they were all afraid
That they never would be paid;
Considering your extravagances,
They weren't taking any chances.

Maybe you were sure you could
Get more people just as good
To prolong that sad charade
Of a creditable run

For a prize that won't be won.

Should the budget/tax plan of the relentless House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan ever go into effect, Medicare "as we know it" would be thrown on the mercy of the stock market, the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical companies and seniors now 55 and younger, with paltry limited vouchers, would be obliged to scramble to find plans they could afford from a so-called "choice" of insurance companies. With all medical, insurance and prescription drug costs continuously spiraling, this would be an exercise in utter futility. Medicaid would also be a victim.. Mr. Ryan clouds the harsh realities of his plan with standard misleading D C bafflegab.

Moreover, bestowing on the wealthy still lower taxes is a heinous scheme to make the Federal Government too strapped to afford the programs needed by those less fortunate than the financially elite untouchbles.

Mr. Ryan just won't quit
Nor wants to compromise a bit,
Even though the people know
It's really not about the dough,

But about their Medicare
That his budget plan won't spare.
Nonetheless, he touts his scam
Like a plan that's not a sham

And I'll wager they're aware
That the cad just doesn't care.

Sarah's back.

Props, photo ops and skullduggery---what won't the exploitive "half governor" Sarah Palin do to undercut her opponents and win---be it an election or simply media attention?

The world is her forum for half-truths, mean-spirited assaults, bogus historical statements, and brazen self-promotion with books, a reality show, her "One Nation" bus tour and a two-hour documentary film, THE UNDEFEATED, which is about her, soon to be released in Iowa theatres.

Stealing thunder from Donald Trump, Scott Walker, Newt Gingrich, the entire contingent of up to 400,000 Washington-bound "Rolling Thunder" motorcycling war vets (herself rolling into town on a Harley-Davidson) and most recently, from Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, her current pal, Michelle Bachmann, will likely be her next target.

She's now joining forces with Donald Trump, both teetering on the rim of possible presidential runs, designed to tantalize the media.

We shouldn't be so fascinated, but we are. She's not worth it.

When re: your "One Nation" tour you said

"It's not about me."
Was it a lie?

When you said

"I love this country."
Was it a lie?

When you said

"Competition is good."
Was that a lie?

From everything we've heard and seen
Most of us know what you mean
And to dissuade us you may try
But we'll still think it's all a lie.

A hollow shell, an empty room---
Sarah Palin is a lie.