Bush & Company

President Bush told us we'd have to wait for history to judge
his presidency,
his war.
History has arrived.
Read all about it in:
THE PRESIDENT OF WAR and the cowards, villains and fools behind him
by Elizabeth Gerteiny
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What ever happened to "Give credit where credit is due?"

The graceless and petty Republican Congress, so resentful of any success enjoyed by President Obama, refuse to acknowledge his quietly achieved triumphs in the Middle East---Tea Party approval not being required.

In some cases, the lawmakers vaguely acclaim outside influences, in others, criticize how the president did it.

The penchant of the spiteful few
To lend no praise where credit's due
But castigate---while nothing new---
The president's singular success
Just proves him more and them much less.

Paul Ryan, budget committee chair and Eric Cantor, majority leader, the most powerful House Republicans below Speaker Boehner, are sitting in the catbird seat.

With absolute financial security and the best in permanent total healthcare for themselves and their families, not only don't they have to care about all those others, their joblessness and creeping poverty---they don't.

Mr. Ryan accused President Obama of divisiveness, pitting class against class, by advocating tax increases for the top one percent of Americans.

Mr. Cantor described the now worldwide Occupy Wall Street demonstrators as a "growing mob."

They, along with Republicans in both legislative chambers, as well as two Democrats, Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Jon Tester of Montana, voted against the president's jobs bill, preventing its passage, even though shamed by Mr. Obama before their constituencies. Besides voting against a plan that would speedily create 1.9 million jobs, they attempted to distract attention by yet again reintroducing the abortion issue and including denial of medical assistance to any uninsured miscarrying pregnant woman.

Will their enormous corporate campaign contributions save their jobs or will their constituents finally catch on?

Paul and Eric sitting pretty,
They prefer to show no pity
From their seats far on The Right,
Who dismiss the desperate plight

Of those who protest The Street
They're determined to defeat,
As complacently they sit,
Legislators who don't care,

A cruel, self-promoting pair---
That's the long and short of it.

The remarkably different Buddy Roemer, a former Louisiana governor, is almost too good to be true and too good to win---partly for his crusade against corporate and undisclosed campaign funding, partly because he's a candidate who stays firmly on his sensible message.

Mitt Romney, the only probable constant for the Republican presidential nomination, is chronically inconstant in conviction.

It's very clear the man's hellbent
On being "Mr. President"
And so to win the people's trust,
He'll say no matter what, to wit:

Although it may be opposite
To what he said before when it
Was not Mitt's actual intent---
No, the reverse was what he meant.

He'll gladly spend what need be spent
And say whatever else he must.
It all will be worthwhile just
To be the U S president.

What a letdown for Republicans---especially the Koch brothers, who were ready to bankroll a Christie campaign with the unlimited funding allowed by our current U S Supreme Court.

Mr.Christie, true to his instincts that "now is not my time," finally rejected his relentless potential backers.

Perhaps he was concerned that an election loss would leave neither a presidency nor a governorship.

Perhaps the apparent straight shooter wouldn't have flipflopped on his stands on immigration, gun control, climate change, medical marajuana, or whitewashed his appointment of a Moslem judge.

From the outset, the honeymoon would disintegrate---skeletons dragged out of closets, references to his unhealthy weight, conservative distress over those liberal views, despite his stance that President Obama be a "one-termer."

Perhaps party loyalty---splitting the moderate Republican vote---prevailed; or perhaps he's building future support.

The governor told his electorate, "So, New Jersey, whether you like it or not, you're stuck with me."

Meanwhile, Barack Obama is stuck in a system not of his making. It will be a challenge to survive it; what's more, to triumph.

He didn't have to do a thing
And donors pushing him to run
Would see to it that he would win
And gloat as he was being sworn in;

But once begun or very soon,
The bought and paid for honeymoon
Would end as defects would abound,
By his support for certain found.

He may yet try for Washington,
That Jersey guy, next time around. . .