The Celebrity President

 

I don't watch Big Brother; I don't watch The Bachelorette.

There are no Real Housewives fighting on my TV set.

I can't stand the kind of shows they call "reality."

I don't find them entertaining; not my cup of tea.

I do not like any shows where judges make a choice -

If someone is talented, can dance, or has a voice.

Not the target audience at which the Networks aim;

I don't want to see somebody's dreams go down in flame.

It's the kind of TV genre that the president

Loves the way that he loves FOX & Friends, because he spent

Years when his own program, The Apprentice, was the rage.

Sadly, he has brought this genre to a larger stage.

Tune in for his big reveal, tonight at 9 PM,

When Trump names his SCOTUS pick; his second one of them.

'though I'm a Survivor, I feel Naked and Afraid...

Sure that I'm not gonna like whatever choice he's made.

The SCOTUS Blues

Funny (I mean funny "strange" and not the "ha ha" kind)

How fast Mitch McConnell can completely change his mind

About how elections matter when you choose a judge...

I can understand why Democrats may hold a grudge.

Donald Trump will get to pick his second nominee

For a seat on SCOTUS. They're a lifetime appointee;

Meaning that for 30 years or more the court will lean

To the right as it's deciding what our laws should mean.

I guess I cannot be shocked by this hypocrisy;

Just one more of many wounds to our democracy.

Maybe it's the weather for, although I should be mad,

I can barely muster up the energy for sad.

Hurrah for SCOTUS-Care

By a vote of 6 to 3, the ruling of The Court

On the role of subsidies in states that don't support

Health care for their citizens has found the law's intent

Was providing coverage...  That it's what Congress meant.

The Chief Justice read the findings, noting that the law

Had some unclear language but deciding that the flaw

Didn't justify destroying the whole ACA,

Which would happen if they took the subsidies away.

From the bench, Scalia read a blistering dissent,

Said that states which opted not to have the money sent

Were within their rights and that the ruling wasn't fair,

That we should rename the law and call it SCOTUS-Care.

Maybe that's a good idea...  If we just change the name,

Keeping the protections and provisions all the same,

Making sure that patients don't get told to take a hike,

They can call the health care system anything they like.

Dr. Seussilitis Does The SCOTUS Blog (Again)

Yesterday the Justices heard arguments about

Language putting subsidies for health care in some doubt

For states that don't have a health care system of their own,

Because local politicians say they won't condone

Health care that's affordable. (They think it's Socialist.)

Thus they've launched another last ditch effort to resist

Implementing ACA by gutting subsidies;

Which leaves millions who can't pay their high insurance fees.

We won't know 'til June which way the Court is gonna rule...

If they'll strip away Obamacare's most vital tool.

I sure wish Republicans spent even half the time

Fixing health care as they've spent on making it a crime.

Wedding Bells Are Ringing

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Here in the United States our highest court just said

Same sex couples in 11 states could go ahead;

Send the invitations, pick the cake, and rent the hall.

The Supreme Court Justices decided that they'd stall.

Seven cases pending they've elected not to hear;

Justices have put the issue off another year.

Groups in opposition to an equal marriage right

Say that they're preparing for a lengthy, legal fight.

Meanwhile, there are 30 states where what you do in bed

Doesn't make a difference in who you choose to wed.

So, for those who - when bouquets were tossed - forgot to duck,

May I wish the newly wedded couples lots of luck.

Dr. Seussilitis Does The SCOTUS Blog - Affirmative Action Editon

The Supreme Court of the United States voted to uphold Michigan's ban on Affirmative Action. (Cartoon/Courtesy of instruction.blackhawk.edu)

SCOTUS ruled, at 6 to 2, that voters get to choose

If there's a protection that minorities should lose.

Michigan decided that Admissions at a school

Cannot factor race when they're selecting from their pool.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor strongly disagreed;

Said the program's one that some minorities still need.

On this issue, I am still unsure how I should feel:

Knowing that the evidence for racism is real,

Wanting to be helpful (it's the Irish Catholic guilt)

Being proud of the protections that the 60s built.

Is that condescending to a person 'cause they're black;

Just assuming I've got some advantages they lack?

That's where I'm uncomfortable. I don't know which side's right,

And I'll never, really know the answer, 'cause I'm white.

All I know is most of color think the program works

And, in their experience, the voters can be jerks.

Aren't we all about protecting the minority?

Not as if they're asking for a lot, it seems to me...

Just consideration of a little more than grades

'til the scar our history has inflicted on them fades. 

Prop 8 and DOMA and SCOTUS. Oh My!

(Photo/Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

Proposition 8 and DOMA; in our highest Court.

Won't know until June which sides the Justices support.

Trying to predict it from the questions that they ask,

Trying to detect opinions they attempt to mask,

Keeps the pundits happy 'cause they get to talk about it.

Does it offer any clues on how they'll rule? I doubt it.

The Supremes  could keep it narrow; leave it to the States.

Let the voters get to choose how people pick their mates.

Could decide Prop 8's a case they shouldn't even hear;

That Defense of Marriage (which conservatives hold dear)

Doesn't meet the standards, thus avoiding sweeping change.

But, like Justice Kagan, I agree it's pretty strange;

How can you say marriages are just for making kids?

Or that same sex marriage means your marriage hits the skids?

Love is love and people are just people and no law

Should presume to dictate that you be a ma and pa.

SCOTUS - Affordable Health Care and Dick Cheney

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Article first published as Supreme Court Will Address Affordable Health Care Act... Maybe on Technorati.

I bet Mr. Cheney's happy he was well insured

And I'm happy for him. Hope that he's completely cured.

All those folks who said that Cheney didn't have a heart

Must acknowledge now that it's his most expensive part.

I hear that he's comfortable - recovering his health.

And, thanks to insurance, didn't lose a lot of wealth.

That's the thing with medicine - such miracles we see - 

But, unlike God's miracles, this kind is not for free.

Isn't it ironic, then, that Justices will hear

Arguments about this thing Republicans hold dear;

Is it Constitutional to force us all to pay

For those miracles that doctors perform every day?

Doctors do not have a choice according to their oath;

Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor - they treat them both.

If it's an emergency you won't be turned away.

But, the bottom line my friends is; someone's gotta pay.

Once upon a time, not long ago, the G.O.P.

Advocated mandates and their (almost) nominee

Implemented something very similar to what,

Under the Obama plan, the country also got.

Now they're praying in the streets the Court will overturn

Health Care Legislation. Should they win, I fear they'll learn

System was as broken as Dick Cheney's failing heart.

True, it isn't perfect yet but I think it's a start.