Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Encompassing
Rich happy
with The Party of the Rich–-
aka sneered “Republican.”
Dems pipe
Worker’s Rights.
Well and fine,
fearless, even,
but it’s really
One Big Party
for two! Truly,
The Money Party!
Cast your votes for it.
How can you lose?
Labels: corruption, Democrat, money, money in politics, parties the same, Party of Rich, Republican, rich, worker
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Political Swan Song
-Thus and so, one more turn on a
very nearly abandoned stage.
-I thought two.
-As did I, before the editorials
tromponed that I had trashed
my principles!
-And did you?
-One or two re-emerge in the fog.
-But...it’s been flat, stale, and
unprofitable?--as Hamlet says.
-All but that last.
Labels: bribery, money, money in politics, political career, political principles, swan song
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Herding Enchiladas
Large Political Consultant
-I thought you were done when you predicted
your party’d prevail for the next fifty or
so years. And your vaunted clock got cleaned
in the very next election!
-Hey! You win some, you lose some. And some
are called off because of rain.
-Of Stupidity, rather.
-That too.
-And now here you are, bigger than ever!
-MONEY! I got our important boys and girls
together and explained that’s what it’s
all about! And forget the rest.
-Then, the Supreme Court affirmed your
distinguished thinking.
-They found, in their wisdom, the side their
bread was buttered on.
-And yours?
-Definitely mine.
-Thus, we’re all frantically running in a race
nobody wants to be in.
-Speak for yourself. God made the world.
-Doing you a helluva favor!
-It’s about favors too.
-Tammany Hall, blown up to mega proportions!
-Super Mega!
-A Black Hole! if you ask me. Where the
one-percent of the one-percent buy
elections outright! Like estates or limousines!
-Or politicians? So? Wake up and smell the
greenbacks! Ahhhh!
Labels: bought and sold, Citizens United, favors, Money as Speech, money in politics, one-percent, political corruption, Supreme Court, Wake up and smell the money
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
The Drunk and the Congressman
-Instead of spending billions to go into
a country to destroy it, and then even
more billions to rebuild it, why not...?
-Just not go in at all?
-Too much common sense?
-One way to put it. But our contributors have
fingers in the pie. And need the other hand free
to salute.
-Patriotism and mega-cash?
-That’s it! Show Business–-no business like.
-Hey! I’M the bitter souse here!
-Move over!
Labels: boondoggle, Congressman, drunk, money in politics, patriotism, rebuilding, Show Business, war
Monday, October 27, 2014
Senators in Victory!
Two Sens (Part 1 or 2)
-And the lesson to be drawn from
our mutual election? Twin triumphs!...
but this HAS to be my last Scotch!
-That the people wish us to continue
fucking them. And the night is young!
---
Two Sens (Part 2 or 1)
-Can’t tell if that’s a burp or a fart.
-No matter. Like a trumpet of triumph!
-Dicey for a bit, but the people reverted
to their natural stupidity.
-Money talks.
-And do we LISTEN!
Labels: business as usual, election, money in politics, political corruption, senator
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Imagination in Politics
Bootstraps
-Parties might spend up to two hundred
a voter in this state!
-Amazing! This pissy place!
-So I went to the Republicans and told them
give me the two hundred outright! Cause,
I’m, like, stone broke!
-Doesn’t work that way.
-Oh?
Labels: buying votes, money in politics, Republican
Friday, September 19, 2014
VOTE REPUBLICAN. THE RICH NEED MORE!
Two Amateur Democrats
-Could be effective. Who you emailing?
-I pretty much just know Lefties.
-Wasted there, Preaching to the Converted.
And Righties’ll say it’s basest propaganda.
And Godless too!
-Gotta reach the Leaners.
-How you gonna find out...? Hafta buy a list.
-That’s the trouble with this country!
Everything’s for sale!
-It’s gone overboard, of course, but
I don’t know but that’s our strength.
Labels: ;Republican, Democrat, for sale, moderate, money in politics, political advertising, rich
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Most Important!
Singularity
They can mouth all the Lefty and Righty shit
they want, but the real question is
Can they raise money? And how
that question insures toadies
from here to eternity!
Labels: Left, money in politics, Right
Monday, June 16, 2014
Bold Face
PIN A STINKWEED ON RIGHTIES
KEENING
WHEN GOVERNMENT PAYS
THE PRICE SHOOTS UP. THEIR
GOUGING
CONTRIBUTORS LEARNED IT
WITH MOTHERS' MILK.
THE REST COMPRISED OF
DIVING.
Labels: bribery, diving, diving in certain sports, gouging, government, government contracting, money in politics, politics
Monday, April 28, 2014
A Certain Fate
"Let me freshen your drink, Senator!"
Since John Q never in
Position to utter such
Magic words, he loses.
And loses inexorably.
Unsaved
In the Land of the Fried
And Home of the Bought.
Labels: bribery, corruption, John Q, money in politics, senator
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Varieties of Prevarication
Senator and Aide
-Which lie will you support?–all naturally purporting
to help John and Jill Q Citizen.
-Which hurts me least?
-A.
-Most?
-C.
-Then let's go with B.
-Always the thoughtful compromiser. The new Henry Clay!
-Better than others they'll compare me to.
-My favorite is Hitler.
-Mine too. The busboys shrink out of the way.
-You stride this broad world like a Colossus!
-Very occasionally. Though I do love it!
-The next president!
-This swamp is enough. More tangled, and thus more bankable.
Labels: compromise, money in politics, political decision, political lying, senator
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Principle, w/exclusion
To Have a Cause
is to need another.
Thus damn O-Care
for high Tea Party.
To The Ramparts!
Whites only.
Labels: cause, money in politics, tea party, Tea Party Racism
Monday, September 23, 2013
Driving For the Darwin Team
Elegant Competition
Almost a cliche
to say legislators
should wear uniforms
a la NASCAR, with many
patches of purchasers.
Coy Republicans can truly
come out more tastefully:
just a beautifully-worked
embroidery or two from
reactionary billionaires.
Labels: billionaires, bribery, money in politics, NASCAR, Republican
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
God shedding his proportioned grace
Plans wrapped up
-Wow! That's what it looks like in shrink-wrapped
blocks like that. How much is...?
-Don’t ask questions like that! Enough.
-I'm sharpening my ears though. To see if money
really talks.
-Not now. It's thinking.
-What it can do for good or ill? A philosophy?
-Nothing so esoteric. Rather about making laws.
Labels: cash, money, money in politics, Money talks
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Interrogation
-It’s like the song, huh? Three Little Words?
-I don't go that far back. Nowhere near.
-Just a comparison.
-Not really. In any case, it's Three Little Questions.
-And seemingly innocent and yet insidious?
-I don't know about that. Our work always made
to sound melodramatic. 007 bushwah.
-I know, it's just routine. I pray I never get in its grip.
-We've submitted to the worst in our training.
-Not that bad?
-I'd never say that.
-How Constitutional? That's my trump question.
-Or your chump question. I leave it to the scholars.
-It's everyone's. Yours too.
-Then what I do trumps it.
-That's chilling.
-Only if you're looking for it to be.
-Maybe the nut righties are coherent on this one:
Tyranny!
-They lose their thrust with all their other shit.
But...not for me to say they're crazy or correct.
-Maybe we're all working towards a more perfect
union?
-Be none, if you don't give us our head.
-I'd be careful about that. You should give us
the heads up first!
-Make us impotent. Look! If you want change,
buy it. That's the way it's done. Then it
filters down to me and I cease and desist--
if that’s what you truly want.
-It's come to that, really?
-Where you been?
-Perhaps that should be the first question.
-We don't bother.
-It’s like the song, huh? Three Little Words?
-I don't go that far back. Nowhere near.
-Just a comparison.
-Not really. In any case, it's Three Little Questions.
-And seemingly innocent and yet insidious?
-I don't know about that. Our work always made
to sound melodramatic. 007 bushwah.
-I know, it's just routine. I pray I never get in its grip.
-We've submitted to the worst in our training.
-Not that bad?
-I'd never say that.
-How Constitutional? That's my trump question.
-Or your chump question. I leave it to the scholars.
-It's everyone's. Yours too.
-Then what I do trumps it.
-That's chilling.
-Only if you're looking for it to be.
-Maybe the nut righties are coherent on this one:
Tyranny!
-They lose their thrust with all their other shit.
But...not for me to say they're crazy or correct.
-Maybe we're all working towards a more perfect
union?
-Be none, if you don't give us our head.
-I'd be careful about that. You should give us
the heads up first!
-Make us impotent. Look! If you want change,
buy it. That's the way it's done. Then it
filters down to me and I cease and desist--
if that’s what you truly want.
-It's come to that, really?
-Where you been?
-Perhaps that should be the first question.
-We don't bother.
Labels: bribery, freedom, interrogation, money in politics, Right, tyranny
Monday, October 29, 2012
The President Has Flaws
Oy does he! Exercising
the other party to
extremes: pointing them
out bringing more
obsession. Though joy in
such hot pursuits
best left to crazies.
Anyway, who could withstand
barrages with Big Boys’ dough?
Did Chester Arthur undergo
similar? Course not. For History saws
his wood now, and it’s nothing much.
Grover Cleveland? How rawly whacked!
Back to dimension of open torches, chants
of "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?" sans dancing
fairies of today’s political consultants.
Oy does he! Exercising
the other party to
extremes: pointing them
out bringing more
obsession. Though joy in
such hot pursuits
best left to crazies.
Anyway, who could withstand
barrages with Big Boys’ dough?
Did Chester Arthur undergo
similar? Course not. For History saws
his wood now, and it’s nothing much.
Grover Cleveland? How rawly whacked!
Back to dimension of open torches, chants
of "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?" sans dancing
fairies of today’s political consultants.
Labels: bribery, money in politics, Political Consultant, politics
