№ 834: Dear Dr. Fauci

END OF THE ROAD (April 13) —

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(with apologies to Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick)

ANTHONY FAUCI,

you are our guy

Do not let Trump

make us all die

Just because 

he is aloof from all truth

is no reason why we should die

Anthony Fauci,

you have to assail

all of his lies

you can not fail

‘cuz if you do, then the country is through

unless Pence pulls off a coup

However,

Mike is not clever

enough to

do any such thing

As for

cabinet losers,

all of them toady to the ding-a-ling

Anthony Fauci,

you have to prevail

we're counting on you,

our Holy Grail,

you and Doc Brix have to counter Trump’s tricks

and help us get out

(from without the lout)

of this fix

Dear Dr. Fauci we're counting on you

№ 527: Cloudy Crystal Balls

Should the Congress with Trump dispense,

we will be saddled with Michael Pence 

and this sleepy, God-fearing, creepy V.P.

will proclaim Christian morality

the law of the land.

Some will stand,

proud and attentive,

as Pence implements his sin preventive.

Others, like me, will flee for the fences,

beyond a stone's throw from wherever Pence is.

№ 492.2: EXTRA! Pence Pensive (a Macbeth moment)

Stocks commencing their Great Donald Dive
got Mike Pence thinking, “Lan sakes alive.
These market slips, stumbles and dips. . .
I don't know. . .could it be. . .Apocalypse?
Is there a fifth horseman — with enormous hips! —
not mentioned in Ravings of St. John the Demented
bringing woe GREAT and unprecedented?

“With him condemned and me righteously saved
has my path to the White House already been paved?
I, after all, do the Lord's work,
while Donald is, let's face it, a jerk.
‘President Pence’? Ascendant. Resplendent.
Time to invoke that fatal amendment?”

[updated 12/22/2018 12:05 am]

№ 492.1: EXTRA! It's Now Or Never (Taking A Chance On Pence)

Amendment XXV
Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

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It's now or never

so come on Pence

you gotta face it

you're not that dense

Tomorrow will be to late

It's now or never

you just can't wait

You may be right wing

and maybe crazy

but you're not Donald

who's whoops-a-daisy

We need a lifeline

and now is the right time

you're our best chance

and it may be the last

It's now or never

so come on Pence

you gotta face it

you're not that dense

Tomorrow will be to late

It's now or never

you just can't wait

Use the amendment

so you can replace Trump

God does not want you

to sit on your rump

So organize it

gather your nerve

you know full well

he's unfit to serve

It's now or never,

so come on Pence

you gotta face it

you're not that dense

Tomorrow will be to late

It's now or never

you just can't wait

No. 246: Poor, Poor Ivanka

(with apologies to Nöel Coward)

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Poor, poor Ivanka.

You thought you'd conquer

whatever you like.

Opposing Bannon

you put your plan in

and got him spiked.

Your crazy Daddy's got the whole world wond'ring

what's bound to come of all his oafish blund'ring.

You may be smart but

your Dad's a Looney Tune.

The world's attention

and apprehension

steadily grows.

Schlurring his speeches.

(Pooping his breeches?)

And so it goes.

Can it be long before Pence pulls the trigger*,

replaces the buffoon?

Poor, poor Ivanka,

thish cannot end too soon.

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*Twenty-fifth amendment

No. CLXIII.i: EXTRA! Kamikaze (Calm Or Crazy)

The Week: Report: Tillerson, Mnuchin, and Mattis have a 'suicide pact' where if one resigns, they all do

Tillerson, Mattis, Mnuchin

hit on a solution

to control demented

incompetent president

form a suicide pact

so he dare not attack.

If he goes after one,

the other two run.

A three person NATO

against head of state.

Crazy, but could it work?

Given the moron's a jerk,

They are but three,

not a majority.

The cabinet would have to decide

that time has arrived to choose sides.

Country or mad man?

Duty or bad man?

Provoked,

they'd invoke

Amendment 25

dump the mess

on Congress

as the relevant section provides.

Yes, that’s a joke.

Congress would choke

if they had to act.

And that’s a fact.

Report status.

Mnuchin?

Tillerson?

Mattis?

No. CXXXIII: The President From Hell

The president's unwell,

he's made a living hell.

Heigh-ho the derry-o,

the president's unwell.

The man, he has no soul

and lacks all self-control.

Heigh-ho the derry-o,

this man, he has no soul.

The man is indiscrete.

Repeatedly he tweets

ungrammatic rambling bleats.

The president doth tweet.

The president doth flirt

with white hoods and brown shirts.

Even when not chasing skirt,

the president doth flirt.

HE LOST THE CEO's!

HE. LOST. THE. C. E. O.'s!

A PRESIDENT FROM GOP

LOST THE CEO's!?

Analysis will find

he is out of his mind.

Pence enlist the Twenty-Fifth*

and put this mess behind.

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*Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. 

—U.S. Constitution, Amendment XXV, Section 4