Verse-afire

Adam Smith said, “There’s a lot of ruin in a nation,” leading Richard Fernandez at

The Belmont Club to observe, “That fact (that it takes a lot to ruin a nation) may console those who are bent on imposing their vision of fairness on the United States; the idea that however badly they hurt it, the United States wouldn’t fall any lower than number 25 in the world, a middling place with nothing particular to be proud of except for the fact that it was no longer number one. That’s a virtue in the eyes of some, who will ask what is wrong with being another Argentina if that is the price to be paid for ridding the world of the United States?”

What if we’re then the Argentine

That’s something with which we’d be fine

If that’s the price to pay for getting rid

Of US evil, US force

Of knocking Yankee off his horse

And turning over all to good El Cid

What has the Yankee done for us

Add up the minus and the plus

And you will find it’s negative at best

We have our vision brave and bold

To turn the USA of old

Into something rather like the rest

We’ve got our man in DC town

A president of great renown

A man to give the world a brilliant show

Just take a look how he’s begun

To knock us down from number one

It’s always money first the thing to go

Then tax and spend the middle class

To grubbing roots and eating grass

‘Til we’ve gone past the Argies far below

The world will be a better place

When we the world no longer face

The rabid, fearsome menace that we know

Without them now to keep the peace

We need but produce more police

Without them buying products that we make

It will be tough to get along

No doubt but we are surely strong

Enough to live on bread instead of cake

In time we’ll see that as they fall

That so as they then so as all

And while destroying them was so much fun

We all went down as they declined

And now we’re simply stunned to find

That after falling they’re still number one

President George W. Bush once claimed to have looked into the eyes of Vladimir Putin and found a friend he could trust, a friend of freedom and of the United States. President Bush even had a pet name for him: Pootie Poot. I have to believe the pet name has changed Mr. Putin’s good opinion of freedom and the United States, assuming he ever had those good opinions. But if he did, would you want the most powerful man in the world calling you Pootie Poot? Especially if you thought you were pretty powerful yourself? I thought not. Calling the man Pootie Poot was a mistake, and we are now paying for it. Fortunately for Putin, he has found an American president he can bully, and he is doing so, much to his apparent delight. Demanding that we stab our friends the Poles and Czechs in the back by canceling the missile shield is only the beginning. 

So Pootie Poot has won again

The Russian Tsar is smiling

The O is like a boy ‘mong men

Concessions he’s a-piling

The missile shield will never work

He claims with so much bluster

And since there’s darkness and much murk

I’ve used my strength to muster

Our allies and our foes alike

To sit around a table

And ask the Persians not to strike

At least not till they’re able

And we all know the reason why

The missile shield’s not needed

When Persian missiles start to fly

Towards Europe who’ve not heeded

All warnings of impending doom

From Persian nukes and missiles

We’ll send Iran after each boom

Some strong and sharp epistles

So I agree with Pootie Poot

That Europe is a goner

And after that we’ll split the loot

And have our peace with honor

Irving Kristol, a left wing apostate and founder of the conservative neo-con movement, died recently at age 89. A columnist, journalist, writer and thinker, Irving Kristol has been called by some the most consequential public figure of the latter half of the 20^th century. Naturally, immediately upon his death the radical left did what they do best. They celebrated. The left wing internet ran post after post of hateful, hate-filled rants, hurling excrement upon the still warm body of a man they hated. And why did they hate him? They hated him because he was once one of them, a communist sympathizer, a Trotskyist, a radical leftist, and he did the unthinkable. He ceased being a radical left liberal and devoted his life to the promotion of conservative causes and conservative thought, and apostasy is something the radical left cannot abide. But it’s all right. Mr. Kristol is beyond their reach, and always has been. Mr. Kristol is gone, but his ideas and ideals live on. Not so the ideas and ideals of the lunatic ranting left. The following is a letter received from one of those left-wingers, complaining of being misunderstood.      

You’ve printed my letter to Washington Post

Describing my glee at demise

Of one of the people I despise the most

And act with a so feigned surprise

That I could have written a scurrilous screed

About one so recently dead

Forgetting that he was the planter of seed

That led to George Bush, enough said

I strongly object to the way I’m portrayed

By radical right-wingnut commenters

Repelled by the sheer lack of grace that’s displayed

By racist and hate filled fomenters

And while I’m consumed by emotions of hate

And sniff at my opposite number

It’s you on the right who befoul the debate

With likes of that creep Joe the Plumber

And Sarah the Palin my god what a dope

And evil George Bush the destroyer

Of everything good in this country of hope

Including my Acorn employer

Thank goodness for people like Nancy and O

We need their firm guidance to lead us

And as I recoil from the stink of our foe

I thank god we’ve hatred to feed us

Those motherless bastards who sit on the right

Those divers of cesspool corruption

Deserve to be spit on till they see the light

And cheer on Obama’s eruption

Like burst on the scene to renew all our dreams

Of what our fair country could be

And when he is through everyone so it seems

Will be thoughtful and civil like me

Have you wondered why the liberals, led by the mainstream media, have savaged Sarah Palin? Have you wondered why mummified teenagers like Maureen Dowd in the NY Times are relentlessly snarky, sneering at Sarah’s family, clothing, lack of an Ivy League degree and place of residence? Have you wondered why the Dems lose no opportunity to dismiss her as a lightweight, a stupid, ignorant yahoo? If you have, wonder no more. The answer is, she scares them. Scares the bejesus out of them. They know there is one candidate who can unite the fractured Republican party, energize the base and entrance the independents looking for real change, real governance, someone with smarts and energy and the good looks we seem to feel is necessary to win the presidency. They know and fear our very own Margaret Thatcher. And well they should. 

Our standard bearah

The gorgeous Sarah

Has energized the gentry

And all us proles

Who share her goals

With just a Facebook entry

With revolutions

And solutions

Labeled now by color

We think the One

Is one and done

He’s fading into duller

Tones that show

That he will go

As soon as Sarah’s ready

In 2010

Obama’s men

Will step off of a jetty

Election night

Will not be tight

A landslide for the ages

And we’ll regain

The fruited plain

And burn O’s darkened pages

The Obama administration has placed severe restrictions on the CIA in their ability to question captured high value terrorists. No longer will American lives be saved by pouring water up someone’s nose, a horrific torture according to the Democrats, a torture so heinous and unforgivable that not one person ever subjected to it has been injured in any way, either physically or emotionally. To combat the evil Bushie torture mongers, the President has turned the questioning of terrorists over to the FBI, who have no experience in questioning terrorists, being a law enforcement agency not an intelligence collection agency. But that is the point. The Democrats are determined that 9/11/2001 never happened, and we can all go back to September 10^th. That way they will be fully justified in sending to jail anyone who dared to question a terrorist.

Obama now has set the tone

For terrorists to play by

They now have but to lift the phone

To find a pleasant way by

Hours spent in torture rooms

May pass in peaceful slumber

Knowing that no danger looms

Just rank and serial number

Of course Obama plays the game

Of being all above it

While passing on to Bush the blame

And his adherents love it

What happens though when danger threats

And CIA needs answers

And terror chiefs have placed their bets

That CIA are dancers

Around the rings now placed on them

By O and his lib minions

Restrictions cheered by each lib Dem

Regardless of opinions

Of most of us who know full well

That freedom is not easy

And sometimes men must practice hell

And do things that are queasy

But forceful measures are not for

Obama’s second stringers

They’d rather we die by the score

Than taint their dainty fingers

How did the radical left become so powerful? When did the people of the United States cede to a small group of radical left wing activists the right to decide what we ate, what we smoked, what kind of cars we drove, how much we weighed, or what we should think? How did the radical left get to decide that we should not drill for oil within our own borders but should remain enslaved to the Middle East? When did we give them the right to tell us we could not have electricity from nuclear power plants? What sort of society would allow a radical homosexual group to decide that kindergarten children should be introduced to the joys of homosexuality? Why have we allowed every tiny interest group that forms itself to tell our textbook publishers what they can and cannot say in their textbooks? Our entire lives, and the lives of our children and grandchildren, are governed by the wishes and desires of the radical left, who wish nothing but ill for the United States. The universities are filled with people of the radical left; the mainstream media is the mouthpiece of the radical left; the once great Democratic party, the party of Truman and JFK and Scoop Jackson and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is now the captured love child of the radical left, represented in Congress by the likes of Maxine Waters and John Conyers, and in the radical Obama administration by the likes of Lloyd Clark and the now happily departed Van Jones. I grieve for the country I knew, a country that is no more.

The day is gone when Country stood

For God and truth and honor

But now we’re ruled by those who would

Bring harm and hurt upon her

I miss the day when free men ruled

Without three dozen czars

I miss the day when no one fooled

With stripes and field and stars

How did it come a tiny fish

Could cause the water flow

To farmers fields a distant wish

As whackos shouted No

How did it come we have the oil

To make our factories hum

But envirowhackos’ ceaseless toil

Keeps drilling rigs so mum

I miss the day when we could vote

For honest men and women

Who didn’t try to rock the boat

Till everyone was swimmin’

I know the good old days were not

As good as I remember

I just don’t like the ones we’ve got

And can’t wait for November

To run the lefties out of town

And bury them forever

And turning Lady Liberty’s crown

To democracy’s endeavor

The Obama administration is currently anguishing over whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan. The Generals want more troops, the left wing of the Democratic party wants out, and Obama himself seems entirely unclear on what he wants to do. The situation on the ground is not favorable to US interests: the Taliban enjoy the support of a large part of the population, and seem to have no difficulty in enlisting martyrs for suicide missions. We kill 100 Taliban and Taliban supporters for every American killed, but they can take the casualties and we cannot, and for one simple reason: no one has satisfactorily explained why we should be there taking casualties in the first place. Certainly not a single American life is worth trying to bring a stone age culture into the 21^st century, particularly when that stone age culture is happy where they are. And so President Obama is in a dilemma. He spent years undermining the war in Iraq while saying we should be in Afghanistan, the good war, and now he’s there and finds it is not so good after all. But then he never did think it was a good war, it was just a stick with which to beat George Bush.

Obama claims that it was Bush

Who bogged us down in Hindu Kush

Not understanding that it’s just a game

Between the Paki ISI

And all the other little fry

Who cares when you’ve got Georgie Bush to blame

Obama says we should have been

Engaged in a war we could win

Instead of messing up in old Iraq

A war Obama says was wrong

And claims he was right all along

To go after bin Laden and his claque

So now he wants to put our guys

Into a place where most supplies

Must come by road and if its cut what then?

And yes we know the Taliban

Still rule the roads and so they can

Decide not just the where but also when

To close the road through Pakistan

To all our guys in far Afghan

And then we’ll say in closin’ au revoir

To Obie’s foolish thought that he

Could talk his way to victory

Just hope it’s not a Chosin reservoir

McClatchy reports on US Marines in Afghanistan pinned down by the Taliban in a mountainside village ambush, where US commanders were not permitted to bring down the full weight of military support because there were civilians present, civilians who aided the Taliban in the ambush.

The ROE

Is from DC

So if we hurt a guy

Dressed in a robe

There’ll be a probe

And lawyers then will cry

That we should not

Return a shot

With civvies in the way

And if we do

Then you know who

Will make the culprits pay

Obama says

And he’s the prez

That battles should be fought

With hands tied twice

And smiling nice

‘Cause that’s what he’s been taught

There’s no excuse

For the caboose

To wag the engineer

And Taliban

Will to a man

Have naught at all to fear

Four Marines were killed in that ambush because the Rules of Engagement say you cannot shoot if there are civilians present, so naturally the Taliban choose to fight where there are civilians. We ask our men to fight and tie their hands. Our men deserve better than having their lives dependent on a lawyer.

From the hells of dark Fallujah

To the sores of Kandahar

They fight our nation’s battles

For each stripe and every star

They fight for right and freedom

For they know what freedom means

They’re the guys who keep us safe from harm

The United States Marines!

President Obama said a number of things over the weekend in his Sunday talk show blitz and elsewhere, including 1) Requiring health insurance is not a tax increase; 2) I didn’t know Acorn was getting a whole lot of federal money; 3) Afghanistan strategy is still a work in progress; and 4) Missile defense decision was not about Russia.

Let’s take them one by one:

Requiring health insurance is not a tax increase. We will all be paying more for health insurance than we’re paying now, and while technically this may not be a tax increase in that the money will not be going directly to the federal treasury but to insurance companies, it’s still money out of pocket, so the effect is the same. Obama knows this is the first step toward a single payer system, at which point the money will be going directly to the federal treasury, and therefore a tax. Kind of like “It depends on what the meaning of is is”.

I didn’t know Acorn was getting a whole lot of federal money. Very nice parsing. He didn’t say he didn’t know Acorn was getting federal money, he said he didn’t know how much. Can anyone believe he doesn’t know all there is to know about Acorn, having worked side by side with them for twenty years?   

Afghanistan strategy is still a work in progress. He is going to pull out and declare victory, even though during the campaign he stated forcefully that it was a disgrace that the Bush administration had not rounded up bin Laden and his fellow terrorists, declaring getting them was the first thing he was going to do as president. Now it seems not as important as prosecuting and destroying the CIA.

Missile defense decision was not about Russia. Of course it wasn’t. Russian threats had nothing to do with it. I believe him on this one. The decision not to deploy the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic was designed to alienate our allies and drive them back into the Russian orbit. All part of a larger plan to diminish the United States, the great oppressor in the eyes of community organizers everywhere.

Who is Obama and what does he want

Where is he going and why

Is it fourth down, is he going to punt

Or will he just sit down and cry

We don’t know the answer to what he is for

Or what he is firmly against

We do know he’s practically given the store

To people who should be defensed

Is giving up missiles protecting our land

A step in direction we like

And what about once or twice taking a stand

And not shrink from what comes down the pike

He says forced insurance is not a new tax

And kneeling to Putin is out

He says as for Acorn I don’t know the facts

But somehow I’m starting to doubt

With deficits soaring, inflation ahead

We might have to think about barter

And after just eight months I think could be said

We’ve elected a worse Jimmy Carter

Rasmussen says 55% of Americans oppose President Obama’s health care plan, so Obama has given us a full day’s full court press on five Sunday talks shows; ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, CNN’s State of the Nation, and Univision’s Al Punto with Jorge Ramos. Notably absent from the list is Fox News Sunday, which the White House excluded because they say the people who watch Fox News are racist bigots, and Al Jazeera because the people who watch Al Jazeera are with them anyway. Why the full court press? Why the urgency? Because Obama knows the tide is running out, both on his socialist healthcare plan and on his presidency as more and more people come to see what he is, and they don’t like what they see. In any event, there will be vast numbers who don’t tune in because they’ve heard it all several hundred times, and hearing it one more time will not change the smell of rotten fish. Of course, there may be those who watch because they think the show is about something else.

A man I know sat glued to set

He missed his Sunday dinner

When asked he said he liked to get

On the side of the winner

He said he was a football fan

And never missed a season

He cared not if they threw or ran

‘Twas winning that was pleasin’

He said he loved his favorite team

His favorite color crimson

He said that winning made him beam

But losing, it was grim son

So that was why he sat all day

A-thinking Alabama

And found that he’d mis-heard them say

It was all day all Obama