Swayed

March 9th, 2010

The lack of a public option in the President’s bill severely disappointed me, but I’ve been brought round to a strong supporter of the President’s plan by something I read today…

Despite Obama’s good report,

Health Care Reform I did not support,

Til I heard Limbaugh say,

He would “move far away!”

My support now provides him escort!

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Big Sausage

March 8th, 2010

What could be more bizarre than the recent behavior of retiring Representative Eric Massa, charged of sexually harassing an aide at a New Year’s Eve party, resigning (but *not* for *that*), then claiming it was all a set-up because he is the deciding vote on health care reform… then finding a fan in Glenn Beck? What a… sausage. Still, in some cases, he might be right.

A Congressman named Eric Massa,

Lost more than a small bit of class-a:

Turning ethics to dust,

Is healthcare now bust?

Among Dems there’s no bigger kielbasa!

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Chief Sales

March 7th, 2010

Our Prez seems to know well what ails man,

But in attacking the issue he tails an…

Über-skeptical public.

To avoid a flub-trick,

He must become an über salesman.

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God’s Chosen

March 6th, 2010

A Vatican Aide named Balducci,

All dressed-up in Prada and Gucci,

Trafficked in bribes,

And not in the scribes,

Choosing not wisdom but hoochie!

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Someone Else’s Trash…

March 5th, 2010

Say thanks to the GOP aide,

In the trash his presentation laid,

Revealing the art,

To reach donors’ hearts,

Is in keeping them squarely afraid!

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Cost of Living

March 4th, 2010

It’s become a too-common occurrence,

When shopping for new health insurance,

The pro-rated cost,

When seeing what’s lost,

Is just one among many deterrents!

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Time’s Up

March 3rd, 2010

I find it an amusing fact,

The past year spent making a pact,

Regarding health care,

Our prez’s now aware,

It’s finally become “time to act!”

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Stunning

March 2nd, 2010

There once was a coot named Jim Bunning,

Who tried to display some choice cunning,

By blocking benefits,

To those he termed misfits,

Away from reporters he’s running!

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I Hate my Bank

March 1st, 2010

Credit card phone activation,

Can lead to some bad perturbation,

One can’t get off the phone,

Sans giving all you own!

How dare they call this innovation!

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Grow up.

February 28th, 2010

Top-ten most downloaded songs on iTunes,

Makes me feel I’ve joined the ranks of old prunes,

Of them all I own one!

Does that make me a nun?

Or just someone who’d rather play with spoons?

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Reality

February 27th, 2010

I’m not watching a speed skating relay,

Though Vancouver’s been much of a field day,

Today all my cares

Are replaced by prayers

For Haiti and now, also Chile.

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View from the Top

February 26th, 2010

With regards to the big health care summit,

There’s one thing a Dem can learn from it:

Pass fixes or fear,

For your career;

Fail and you’ll watch your polls plummet!

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Fall Into The Gap

February 25th, 2010

The much-heralded Health Care Summit finally happened. The one that should have happened at the beginning of last year, with the left putting single-payer on the table. Maybe then we could have compromised to the point where a public-option is now on the table. Waiting this long, the President gave the Republicans plenty of time to politick the issue… whether by flying the same small group of tea-partiers to different congressional town halls last summer or playing with expectations by saying today’s summit was a set-up, or trap. When will this President realize that the Republicans, at least with regards to health care, are implacable?

In attempting to “bridge” today’s “gap,”
Our Prez was accused of a “trap.”
He has to remember,
That GOP members,
To a man just could not give a crap!

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Patriotic Anthem

February 24th, 2010

Anthem Blue Cross, a subsidiary of Wellpoint, recently announced that they were raising rates for individual health insurance policy holders in California by 39%, and similar double-digit rate increases in 11 other states. This despite the fact that the company spent $27 million dollars on Executive retreats in 2008, and made over $4 billion profit in 2009. Is there really any question anymore that we need a public option to compete with these thieves and rapists and truly bring costs down? Please call your Senator and ask them to support the public option. Today’s limerick:

When asked, the C.E.O. of Anthem,

Why her rates had such need to expand some,

Could not come to admit,

Her percentage gambit…

Is less like a fee than a ransom!

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