Bush & Company

The president's need for bi-partisanship, regardless of the stakes, is becoming disastrous. Apart specific crises is the ever-increasing and uncompromising power of the Tea Party, the radical branch of the Republican Party.

Results coming from his projected Super Committee are fairly predictable. Six Democrats and six Republicans voting, each set hand-picked for its opposing stance, although requiring but a simple majority, could end in a hopeless gridlock. The nation is in perpetual disarray; can't the president recall Congress from their five-week vacation?

The Tea Party has swiftly burgeoned from a small protest group into a ruinous force, rendering the House speaker and the president, to all appearances, cowed and helpless.

President Obama, why are you stalling? Why are you seeking an escape route? What future exigency will motivate you to action? This vicious gang is gaining fearsome momentum from its latest unconscionable victory.

Why are you acting like a coward?

Did the president take a stand
That he never will demand
An end to what's engulfed our land
Beset by that unholy band?

How can one help but wonder how
He can hang back, not disavow
Those House despoilers somehow---
It just gets worse---when if not now?

The time for patience long has passed---
One more bust and the die is cast.
God, please don't make me have to say
My president has feet of clay. . .