Bush & Company

What could be more ludicrous than the foes of President Obama casting him again as a failure when again the facts bear out the opposite?

The current hysteria is not about "religious freedom," as both his political opponents and Catholic bishops assert. These are fraudulent words, still used, even though the president has offered a very acceptable compromise to the outdated controversy over birth control. Recalcitrant Catholic institutions, while providing contraceptive services covering total women's health, would not be obliged to act against their principles by paying for them; insurance companies would, a far cry from the expense of abortion, pregnancy and delivery.

Yet Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) is now introducing a bill that would not only deny all health services, in any given circumstance, to women, but violate one of our basic tenets---separation of church and state.

Extreme Rightists are using the lives and well-being of women to try and topple President Obama and distract attention from the real issue of the day---jobs---because they have no viable solution themselves.

What better way can we attest
To what The One we have's the best
Than pointing out his leadership
Provides much more to us than lip

And still his foes seek to distract
With arguments quite inexact---
The clear intent that we forget
Our most important issue yet--

Their vapid words are just a way
To try and make it go away.

On February 2, in the lobby of his Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, hotel and casino magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney, "not concerned about the very poor," for president who, his wife Ann beside him, accepted the "honor."

Trump was fully expected to endorse other frontrunner Newt Gingrich, very let down by the nasty surprise. Not long ago, he denigrated his now endorsee with words like "small business guy" and he didn't own the company, he just "worked there."

As Mitt was being trumpeted in Las Vegas by a known tabloid braggart and hypocrite, his main rival, President Obama, officiating at a prayer breakfast at the Washington Hilton, quoted Jesus saying "For whom much is given, much shall be required."

The ambitious Donald Trump is intent on sponsoring a winner and the secretive Mormon Church, though opposed to gambling, permits the seduction of its favorite son by a casino owner, its determined ambitions allowing for any means to an end.

Two famous multimillionaires,
At least for now joined at the hip
In semi-permanent partnership---
One is The Donald, one The Mitt

And one of them, so shamefully, who'd
Allowed himself thus to be wooed---
The Donald's current favorite
Is often seen in campaign jeans

Persisting in his worn routines,
Although it's more than likely there's
The chance that neither's benefit
Is worth more than a hill of beans.

The insidious reach of the radical Right libertarian Koch brothers of Koch Inductries, Wichita, Kansas---philanthropism to the arts and medical research cloaking their real goals---was revealed in February 2011, to be behind Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker's assault on collective bargaining in his state (for the sake of the budget, he said) which burgeoned nationally, and the attempt to make clownlike Herman Cain president, touches upon other sectors, as well, notably the proposed Keystone Pipeline project, questioned by President Obama on environmental grounds and the few temporary jobs it would create, and higher education, Koch's endless resources now funding 150 colleges and universities with contracts that determine hiring of professors, curriculum and ideologies to be forwarded.

Moreover, the brothers' relentless push for impractically low personal and corporate taxes, minimum industrial and environmental regulation and dismantling of needed social programs makes them perhaps the most dangerous force in the nation today.

Unless stopped, their nefarious influence will ultimately control every facet of American life, including academic freedom.

Our greatest blight, the brothers Koch,
Unlike most of our gentlefolk;
Once and for all, their covert skill
Has been uncloaked and yet they still

Can bend the spineless to their will
(Their noxious sway no one foresaw?)
And surely will persist until
The legislators on The Hill,

To bring that power down to nil,
Devise and vote yea to a bill
Signed by the president into law.