The Problem With Hillary 2016

This is how the GOP sees Hillary. (Courtesy of/www.veooz.com)

Lately I've become convinced that I don't have a choice;

I can argue politics until I've lost my voice...

Won't convince Conservatives to change their point of view.

So I've started thinking that it's time for someone new.

Since there is no compromise, our government is broke.

All the plans Obama has are going up in smoke.

Nominees are languishing and sex slaves have to wait

Because they don't like Barack...  But, Hillary they hate.

If you think that things are bad right now then wait and see

Just how bad it gets if we elected Hillary.

Knowing Clinton represents the sum of their worst fears,

I don't know if I can stand 4 more contentious years.

I could vote Republican to spare myself the pain;

If someone like Snowe, their former Senator from Maine,

Were to be the GOP's selected nominee

They might still convince me not to vote for Hillary.

Olympia Snowe - 2016

I'd vote for Olympia Snowe.

Republicans suffered a blow

When she chose to quit;

Became sick of it.

Found change in the Senate too slow.

Recently, she wrote a book.

I bought it and then had a look.

She says it's on us

To cut through the fuss

And put government on the hook.

Her argument's fair and well-spoken.

But I think that Congress is broken.

They're not above board.

The people ignored.

The background check issue's awoken

A frustrated public who sees

That, not just a slow-down, but freeze

Is now underway

In Congress today...

Won't fix it by just saying "Please."

The One Hundred and Twelfth - Who Broke Congress?

excerpted from an
Article first published as Is Congress Broken? - Revisited on Technorati.

 Senator Jeff Bingaman(D) and Senator Olympia Snowe(R) sat down with Gwen Ifill of the PBS News Hour for a frank discussion on why they are leaving.

Wrote a rhyme the other day that asked; Is Congress broke?

I said yes and blamed the Members.  Maybe I misspoke...

In a recent interview, The PBS News Hour

Sat down with 2 Senators resigning seats of power;

(Bingaman, New Mexico, and Snowe who comes from Maine)

Asked them if they feared that Congress might have grown insane.

Snowe - and boy, I love her - said that when we won't elect

People who will compromise, what else do we expect?

I had never thought of that before.  I think she's right.

Every campaign ad I've seen in any election fight

Always makes an issue of some vote the other guy

Sided with opponents on - imply that he would lie.

But, with checks and balances, that's what they're s'posed to do;

Start from basic principles...  Agree to bend a few.

These days we're so polarized that maybe we forgot

In a good democracy the middle ground is sought.

Yet, we're in a pickle for the people on the Hill

Can't agree on anything and, right now, no one will

Step across a party line in an election year.

It would just sneak up behind and bite them on the rear.

The One Hundred and Twelfth - Olympia Snowe

  

Senator from Maine told her constituents she's done.
Doesn't like her colleagues and the job's no longer fun.
Choosing between their way or the highway - chose to go.
We've all lost a voice of reason with Senator Snowe.

Last time that she ran she won with 70%.
But, in this term's Congress, found she couldn't make a dent
In the wreck Republicans have made upon The Hill.
Snowe will hit the road because her job has made her ill.