Mitt Picks Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan’s the one Mitt picked for VP

He’s hoping his base will shout out with glee

And right-wingers surely have cause to rejoice

They’ve finally got someone who speaks with their voice.

Independents, however, may not be so sure

His budget ideas make them insecure.

The tax cuts he plans will make richer the rich

He’ll cut lots of programs, but he won’t say which.

There’s no one less loved that the House GOP

Ryan’s one of their leaders, nearly all would agree.

All Ryan’s proposals Mitt now must defend

We’ll see how it all turns out in the end,

But Mitt’s opened himself to fearsome attack

Ryan’s now a big target on Mitt Romney’s back. 

Paul Ryan for VP?

Both the Wall Street Journal and Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, have strongly urged Mitt Romney to select Paul Ryan as his running mate. Ryan is chief budgetary bête noir of the American left because of his budget proposals, which involve big tax cuts for the rich, “broadening the tax base” (which means the rest of us pay more taxes), putting Medicaid on a strict allowance (block grants) and transforming Medicare to a “premium support” (or voucher) system.  A Ryan choice would shift the electoral debate away from Bain and the economy toward policy issues, and so perhaps this would be a good thing.  As Rich Lowry puts it, “Ryan would inject a jolt of energy into the campaign and reorient the debate around policy. The Romney campaign doesn't have to be reckless. It does have to have a pulse.”  Nevertheless, a Ryan choice carries a certain amount of risk, and, given Mitt’s track record with regard to courage, it seems more likely that he will choose Tim Pawlenty (yawn) or Rob Portman (who’s he again?).

Mitt Romney’s under pressure now

To pick Paul Ryan as his Veep

He’s more conservative than thou,

He dreams of budgets in his sleep

He’s really smart, or so they say,

The doubts of wing-nuts he’d allay.

They say he has a lot of guts

Because his economic pitch

Entails primarily huge tax cuts

That’d give more money to the rich,

And to satisfy the right wing’s prayer,

He’d do away with Medicare.

The Wall Street Journal says Mitt should

Select Paul Ryan for his Veep

It’d show the world just where he stood -

It’d be a bold, decisive leap -

And that is just the reason why

Poor Mitt’s unlikely to comply.

Why Chris Christie Won't be Romney's Pick for VP

Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is the conservatives’ heart throb as a Vice-presidential pick for Mitt Romney.  His legendary outspokenness is refreshing in this time of focus-grouped sound bites. He’s a verbal bull in a china shop, however, and has recently called out some Republicans as bigots because they have objected to his associations with certain Muslims.  This is not the kind of thing that goes over well in today’s Republican party.   

  

Christopher Christie has a big mouth

What he says is just what he means

He’s befriended some Muslims and that has led

To some unpleasant right-wing scenes.

So Christie says that those folks are just bigots

And that really makes them pissed.

That’s the trouble with someone who means what he says,
He irritates folks that he's dissed.

Romneycare: Gag or Brag?

Responding to a dickish ad put out by an Obama Super Pac, in which a guy laments his wife’s death from cancer following the loss of his job (and health insurance) at a company taken over by Bain (honestly, guys, you’re better than this), a Romney spokesperson snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by mentioning the unmentionable: “To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Gov. Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care”  Conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh, were apoplectic: “I don’t know the people at the Romney campaign but I’m gonna tell you…your candidate is accused of killing a woman because … this isn’t about health insurance! They’re out there saying that your guy killed this woman! and your answer is well she’d of had health insurance if she lived in Massachusetts.”

Health care in the State of Bay

Is something they should never say

Because it was Mitt Romney’s plan

And since his own campaign began

His program he tries not to mention

Because it’d just bring more attention

To Mitt’s role in putting there

The model for Obamacare.

So was this just a bad mistake

By an inexperienced flake?

Or is it really something now –

To have your cake and eat it too:

‘Though Rommey’s plan has great appeal

Obama’s plan we’ll still repeal.

If this is Mitt’s health care defense

It simply doesn’t make much sense. 

Mitt's Taxation Creation

Mitt Romney’s tax reform proposal offers to reduce everyone’s tax rates by 20%, paying for it by reducing unspecified “tax expenditures”.  The Tax Policy Center declared that the plan "would provide large tax cuts to high-income households, and increase the tax burdens on middle- and/or lower-income taxpayers." Other economists and commentators piled on.  Paul Krugman, for instance, says "Romney is scamming voters, claiming not only that he can make up the lost revenue by closing unspecified loopholes, but that he can do so in a way that doesn’t shift the tax burden away from the rich onto the middle class. He can’t, as a matter of sheer arithmetic — which is the point of that Tax Policy Center study.”

On tax reform we’ve reached accord

I’ll cut tax rates across the board

And so we don’t lose revenue

I’ll cut away some loopholes too.

Which ones are those? You’ll have to guess -

I’m not quite sure, I must confess.

It works out well for guys like me

Our tax declines substantially.

I’m sorry, but the rest of you

Will pay more than you used to do.

"Nice" Gays: An Insidious Plot

Louis Sheldon, of the Traditional Values Coalition, complains that TV shows invariably portray gays as “nice” and sees in this a conspiracy “to desensitize Americans to the genuine risks of the homosexual agenda”.

 …homosexuals are invariably portrayed as funny, sensitive and caring individuals. At the same time, critics of homosexuality are portrayed as bigoted and ignorant homophobes who have to learn to accept homosexuality as a valid lifestyle choice. Yet behind the scenes, how many people realize that organizations such as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation actually have veto power over many of these scripts and can actually force directors and producers to rewrite dialogue that casts an unflattering light on homosexuals?

There’s no one nicer than gays

That’s what the TV conveys

It’s easy to see

That LGTB

Controls what the network portrays.

If everyone thinks gays are nice

No one will think it’s a vice:

Being queer is just great

It’s no fun being straight

Add gays to your life for some spice.

But gays for a long time have planned

Gay marriage to make law of the land

There’s only one way

To stop this today

From TV they ought to be banned.

Mitt the Wimp

Several Republican leaders, including John Boehner and John McCain, have spoken out against Michelle Bachmann’s paranoid claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating the US government and that one of Hillary Clinton’s chief aides, Huma Abedin, should be investigated for her possible role in this scheme.  Mitt Romney, however, refused to characterize Bachmann’s charges at all, saying “I’m not going to tell other people what things to talk about. “  On a scale of forthrightness, this is right down there with his remarks on Rush Limbaugh’s characterization of Sandra Fluke as a “slut”, when he said “not language I would have used”.   He has also refused to dissociate himself from Ted Nugent’s rants against Obama.  If there’s any issue that might provoke controversy within the Republican Party, Mitt refuses to take sides. 

  

Michelle Bachmann’s making the claim

The Brotherhood’s got a con game

That’s part of insidious plots

To take over government slots.

She gave Huma Abedin’s name

Who Hillary’s aide became.

Even Republicans said

That Bachmann was out of her head.

So what did Mitt Romney do?

Did he say Michelle’s crazy too?

He said that there’s simply no way

He’d tell others what they should say.

This is a pattern of Mitt’s

When the going gets tough, Mitt quits.

He won’t take a stand in the end

If there’s someone he might offend.

What kind of leader is this,

Who’s afraid to get anyone pissed?

Mitt Romney waffles a lot

A profile in courage he’s not.