Healthcare reform gives voters indigestion
‘cause legislators won’t divulge their goals.
One side touts new regulations to hide a
squeeze on medical profits, while the other
warns changes threaten patient care when
they just distress campaign contributors.
We suspect the final legislation will have
fanfare in the name, pork sausage inside.

Signs, contorted faces, and shrieks
at the 9/12 march on Washington
had assembly-line sameness, and
more than a slight resemblance
to Fox News’ tea-bagging events.
Talk radio intellectuals and lovers
of liberal parody were inspired,
or entertained — a two-fer we needed
after eight years of wasteful war and
wanton destruction of the economy.
Since there is no apparent relief
in sight from the ravages of [...]

The right wing opposes
everything the president suggests.
Details don’t matter.
His ideas must fail so he will.
He won’t, but bipartisanship did.
Many liberals see Obama
as too conservative, conciliatory,
accepting of bad Bush policies.
Republican extremists ignore these clues
and call Barack a fascist socialist.
Whatever their motivation,
conviction, obtuseness, or racism,
the parties can’t work together.
Perhaps Democrats will,
and finally master partisanship.

If Obama abandons the public option
because experts say it can’t pass the senate,
he deserves to lose liberal support.
Who needs a leader who believes what
politicians say they are going to do?