Bush & Company

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.