Big Tax Attack

Chuck Grassley let everyone know the motivation behind the new tax attack on the middle class:  “I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing,” Grassley told the Register in a story published Saturday. “As opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”

The middle class is of little concern

They spend every penny they earn

So why help the poor

They’ll just spend some more

But the rich need more money to burn.

With Democrats in power they thrived.  In what should be a more supportive habitat they have disappeared.

The loss of a species is linked

To the tax reform bill to be inked

The loud raucous bird

Is no longer heard

The Deficit Hawk is extinct.

Deficit Attention Disorder

The Party of Fiscal Responsibility wants to increase the deficit dramatically.  In a couple of years they’ll complain about it and reduce every social program they can think of.  I haven’t figured out how they’ll blame the Democrats, but that’s coming too.  It’s all based on voodoo economics, imaginary history and obscenely big buck donations from the ‘deserving 1%’.

They’re out on a tax cutting spree

Ignoring economic history

Growth will soon fade

If cuts are made

But it will strengthen the plutocracy.

The Democrats seethe and scramble while the smiling, smug Hypocrats congratulate themselves and gloat.

The Republican soul has been bared

Congress has clearly declared

Disregard for deficits

If they help the rich

And no deficit hawk even cared.

The Year of the Wandering Hand

Is it really unbridled libido or is it just a naked power grab?  

If you wonder what grabbing her ass meant

If you did not get hands on her assent

There’s no possible way

She’d call it foreplay

But consider it sexual harassment.

Franken and Conyers are under investigation and being pressured to resign.  Bill Cosby denied everything and has gotten off.  Moore and Trump just lie and nobody seems to care enough to investigate, or even vote against them.  It’s that power thing.

Those who admit what they’ve done

Are pressured for their resignation

So please tell me why

Those who deny

Aren’t subject to investigation?

To the Best of My Recollection

… I haven’t published these before.

At the last session Jeff Sessions swore

As he did at each session before

That he’d tell Congress all

That he could recall

And at each session he recalled more.

With a memory like that how did he make it through Law School?  Coincidentally the same Law School attended by another memory challenged politician currently making headlines - Roy Moore.

Sessions recall had several omissions

And was subject to frequent revisions

Is his memory defective

Or just more selective

Than Alabama Law School admissions?