Wednesday, September 02, 2015
Requiring Hypocrisy
-So I’m to go 180 and blast my signature issue?
Which really represents us all! Our pride!
-Sorry. You owe. And we need you.
-For the Party? What kind of party goes back on itself?
Its hallowed, traditional word!
-One which survives.
-Well I won’t! I’ll go Third Party! Campaign on a bicycle!
The Last Honest...!
-We got a room where we scrap Don or Donna Quixotes.
-I can win!
-Uh huh? And another room for whoever helps you, your
Sancho Panzas.
-You’re exclusive in all else, but not in revenge!
-Hispanic Inclusion! Let’s welcome Spicks all to hell!
Labels: campaigning, Congress, Don Quixote, Hispanic, party, party line, Sancho Panza, Third Party
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
For the People
-I came here to work for the people!
-How’d that go?
-For the party more like.
-How’d the people react?
-Remarkably quiescent. Of course I threw them the occasional cookie.
-How so?
-When Noises didn’t need my vote I was allowed off the reservation.
-So, the great maverick on Face the Nation.
-Spitting fire! Spitting fuckin fire!
-All in all, though, despair?
-Just about. Leads to booze and ladies who give a shit
about nothing.
-Wife back home?
-Roams.
-Worse and worse.
-Our constituent service, though, top drawer! We got young people who work like Trojans.
-Well there is some pride then!
-Yeah, I came as Patrick Henry and leave a really good
7-11 manager.
-I came here to work for the people!
-How’d that go?
-For the party more like.
-How’d the people react?
-Remarkably quiescent. Of course I threw them the occasional cookie.
-How so?
-When Noises didn’t need my vote I was allowed off the reservation.
-So, the great maverick on Face the Nation.
-Spitting fire! Spitting fuckin fire!
-All in all, though, despair?
-Just about. Leads to booze and ladies who give a shit
about nothing.
-Wife back home?
-Roams.
-Worse and worse.
-Our constituent service, though, top drawer! We got young people who work like Trojans.
-Well there is some pride then!
-Yeah, I came as Patrick Henry and leave a really good
7-11 manager.
Labels: conformist, conformity, maverick, party, party line, people, politics, Populism, practical politics
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Freedom, Right
God-given! You strike
the anvil that yields
talking points. Thus
the joy of freedom
that never gets old
doing what it's told.
God-given! You strike
the anvil that yields
talking points. Thus
the joy of freedom
that never gets old
doing what it's told.
Labels: freedom, party line, talking points
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The Deadline Lurks
in rankest shrubbery.
How practitioners hew
to party lines while mouth-
ing abstractions anew
of the rights of men!--
even of women. Rash
consequences are trumpeted
by talking heads who nonetheless
grow fatigued watching red meat
gray. Nothing sways the politicians.
The public hopes for conscience;
they for cash.
Labels: deadline, debt limit, party line
