Flying Pigs?

(Image/Courtesy of www.nickpeall.com)

If you're watching Congress then you've noticed something strange;

Senators and Members have been working (for a change.)

They confirmed Loretta Lynch and even passed a bill.

Maybe they've remembered why we sent them to the Hill.

Maybe easy votes will get the Congress on a roll,

Help them focus on their jobs and not on how they'll poll.

Could it be they're ready to give compromise a try?

Maybe Congress isn't broken...  Maybe pigs can fly.

Unsolicited Advice for Attorney-General Eric Holder

Want to be Attorney General?  Heard they're hiring.

Eric Holder's just announced that he's retiring.

Says he'll stay until someone's confirmed to take his place...

I think he should wait to pack his office - just in case.

I would guess it's 50/50 Congress will agree

To whatever sucker is Obama's nominee.

Some poor slob Republicans will always castigate

In pursuance of their next, pretend "Whatever-Gate."

Someone with the patience and composure of a saint

(Hearings before Congress are like watching drying paint.)

Why someone would put themselves through that I'll never get

But, if I were Holder, I would not start packing yet.

"It's Our Bleeping City"

A bloodstained Tsarnaev surrendering to police. The red dot on his forehead is a sniper's laser target. (Photo/Telegraph.co.uk)

I was not a victim of the Marathon attacks;

Wasn't near the bombings that stopped Boston in its tracks;

Didn't have my legs blown off and didn't lose a child;

Never went to view the site where running shoes were piled.

Didn't have to shelter in my home while the police

Searched throughout the city; only read the press release.

I have never met Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - never will.

Didn't know the brother who the cops were forced to kill.

Never understood what changed a boy who people liked

Into some crazed radical, or down which roads he's hiked...

Therefore, I'm not qualified and shouldn't have a voice

In his future punishment.  I'm glad it's not my choice.

Eric Holder's seeking death 'cause Massachusetts can't.

40 years ago this state decided that we shan't.

Since the bombs were terrorism, Holder says he rates

Execution 'cause he aimed at the United States.

Tell that to the people who were injured in the blasts;

Tell it to the amputees or those still wearing casts.

They should be the people who decide his punishment...

They're the ones he really hurt and not the government.

The 2nd Term Curse?

What can I say?  I'm a political junkie.

On the Sunday morning shows they talked about a curse;

Said that second terms, for Presidents, are always worse.

Often plagued by scandal - back as far as Jefferson -

Almost makes you think terms should be limited to one.

They could not explain the curse, and yet, it's proven true.

Here's what I don't understand; what did Obama do?

Didn't sleep with interns nor trade hostages for guns,

Didn't wire tap our phones nor commandeer our sons.

Didn't change the "talking points" as it was, falsely, claimed.

Guy who ran the I.R.S. was someone George Bush named.

Neither he, nor Eric Holder, hassled the A.P.

Yet, Obama's demonized throughout the G.O.P.

"Ten times worse than Watergate" and Bachmann would impeach.

This all seems political to me - an over-reach. 

Party not in power wants the other side to squirm.

Not the most auspicious way to start a second term.

Race for the White House - With Friends Like These...?

 

President Obama has some interesting friends

Who, perhaps responding to some recent polling trends,

May have told The New York Times some secrets they should not.

I bet David Axelrod wants all the leakers shot.

Senator McCain - who I supported (Not of late...

Not since when he lost his mind in 2000 and 8) -

Stood up in the Senate and accused the President;

Said it wasn't only drones and Stuxnet that he'd sent,

But a message - loud and clear - that he's the man in charge

And his role in National Security is large.

I think John McCain forgot that we already know

President Obama has been heading up the show.

Seems a rather sneaky way to change the story line.

The Attorney General's investigating...  Fine.

But, to say the President - who's prosecuted more

Leakers than has any other President before

Wanted secrets spread across the front page of The Times,

Or that he's behind the people who've been dropping dimes

Proves to me Republicans will go to any ends...

Enemies like that?  The President needs better friends.