Showing posts with label Nixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nixon. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

№ 754: High Crimes And Misdemeanors + 1 more


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THE SWAMP (December 23)

(with apologies to Bob Hilliard and Sammy Fain)

It's time for high crimes and misdemeanors
to bring Bad Donnie down
Because his high crimes and misdemeanors
should get his ass kicked out of town

Just take a good look
at Constitution
You know the Senate knows
Don't need no law books,
Trump's pure pollution
while GOPers hold their nose

And McConnell, why so quick to acquit
this third-rate, strictly low-rent clown
whose high crimes and misdemeanors
should get his ass kicked out of town

           *    *    *      ¯\_{ºº}_/¯      *    *    *


THE GHOST OF IMPEACHMENT PAST

WHERE WE ARE NOW (December 23)

President Nixon* was not a crook.
(Though he did do a few crooked things.)
That said, Donnie, despite Evangelicals**, 
ain't gonna “don” angel's wings.

Born corrupt, Donnie became corrupter
as he was taught to and as he sought to.
He found breaking laws a path to abrupt
stashes of cash. That laws can be laughed at
and people be bought off or silenced with NDAs.
If that didn't work, well. . .there were other ways
gleaned from his mentor, Roy Cohn 
(gangster lawyer, mouthpiece and queer***),
to cause a problem to. . .“disappear.

Roy, like Trump's pal, Rudolph Giuliani,
would do anythinfor money and Donnie.
—————
*not a “bad” person
**mostly “bad” people
***did not make him a “bad” person

Thursday, March 28, 2019

№ 561: Pardons From Rose Garden (part the first?)

THE SWAMP, March 27

I’m fine with Mike Flynn — good guy, I like him.
His lying to Pence? I call that a whim.
Paul Manafort I would never sell short,
he was, in some ways, my closest cohort.
And dear Roger Stone, why need he atone?
With nothing admitted, he must be acquitted,
if a jury can't see it, I will decree it.

(Memo to Stone: Man, we're okay, relax.
But, please, not my face tattooed on your back
unless you are fixin’ to cover up Nixon’s
it's not Dickie's face, it's more I need my space.)

Monday, January 8, 2018

No. 243: Calm At The Center

Shirts on floor.
Wolff at door.
Nixon encore?

Mueller stalking.
Aides not talking.
Dead man walking?

Tweets nocturnal.
Hicks eternal.
Wall Street Journal?

Alarm clock.
Murdoch.
Aftershock.

Able, stable.
Watching cable.
Book is fable!

Big Mac famished.
Bannon banished.
No habla español.

The Atlantic: How Actual Smart People Talk About Themselves



Friday, December 1, 2017

No. 217: Trump Over Time (cover charge)

Telly Sevallas's Kojak
was always shouting for “Crocker!”
Likewise, Barry Goldwater asked
if Nixon was off his rocker.
Trump's default attitude has
always been that of a mocker,
while his color has, with age, shifted:
true yellow to orangey ocher.
It is a SHOCKER not everyone's soured
of this insecure, bloated, bullying coward.

Saturday, September 23, 2017

No. CLXII: My Weekly Reader revisited

Trump Reveal and Disgrace
repeal and replace
ever so sweet
watch uninsured
die in the street


Brexit
Rule Britannia
Britannia rule the Thames
even if it's just
from London to Gravesend

British Empire
















Trump/Kim
nukes and sass
“No, I'll kick your ass”
all that remains
will just be stains


Trump/Nixon
one thing Trump won't
take from Nixon's playbook
who'd ever believe his
“I'm not a crook.”


Manafort
I retort
I did not consort.
(Vlad, old sport, 
where's my diplo passport?)


Trump Midnight Confusions
I herewith order
closing the border.
(Which one's my wife,
which one's my daughter?)


Genocides
sometimes Hutus kill Tutsis
sometimes Tutsis kill Hutus
the only difference is who
you send the bill to


Religions
of late I've concluded
(need I add wearily)
there's no taking
religion seriously

Thursday, September 7, 2017

No. CXLVIX: Unsummery News Summary (Before The Fall)

Let's get real face the fact in the present:
Trump's nothing more than a nouveau riche peasant
who with his wealth from undisclosed sources
wants to chop down our cherry orchard.
His taste is atrocious —
garish, gilded and gaudy.
In pursuing sex
he's always been naughty.
He insists his steak be grilled overdone.
He does not drink wine. He is not much fun.
Nixon resigned.
Fate spared us Ted Kennedy.
But with this guy
there is no remedy.
Now...I do not want to make any fuss,
but this man's just a tad too dangerous.
Korea, trade winds, immigration...problems aplenty...
in foresight our hindsight might not see 2020.
Curious, no,
how history meanders?
What's next in store?
Please not Bernie Sanders.