Sunday, February 15, 2009

G.O.P. — R.I.P.


GOP
G.O.P.
Ghetto Of Palin
Gospel of Palin
         Redeemer Church
         (of the land of GOG
           G.O.G.
           Ghost of Gingrich)
Eric: the Cantor
         Every time the Cantor sings,
         a Democrat gets his wings
Snowe, Collins, and Specter:
          The Unholy Trinity
The Expurged:
          Gordon Smith, Lincoln Chafee
Michael: Htrae's Man of Steele



GOD
         G.O.D.
         Ghost of Dewey
Is Dead


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*   G.O.P.   *
*               *
*   R.I.P.    *
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for (weakly) read write poem prompt #66: re-imagine your life (gypo)

(also see A date which will live in irony)

5 comments:

  1. Raven's Wing PoetryFebruary 19, 2009 at 1:37 PM

    Hrm...a very interesting piece visually. There's a lot in here to make me think. I like.

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  2. DebFebruary 19, 2009 at 5:47 PM

    (Gordon Smith was from my state. So glad he was bounced.)

    I like the creativity, and the politics, too. You *could* go on, and on. There will always be more.

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  3. Andy SewinaFebruary 19, 2009 at 7:48 PM

    Yeah, like the look of it but don't hear much about American politics this side of the drink, so can't comment. Oh no, I just did!


    The NaisaiKu.. Challenge!

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  4. Crafty Green PoetFebruary 20, 2009 at 3:19 AM

    very visually interesting certainly. Like Sweet Talking Guy I'm not in the right place to comment on the politics...

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  5. Philip ThriftFebruary 20, 2009 at 7:29 AM

    It isn't really about politics 2009; it's more about American political history,1859-2009 —
    Parallel and Irony

    1860s:

    * Lincoln and the (Radical) Republican Party — (Anti-slavery) Strong central national government, Reconstruction, equal-protectionism for the black race (14th Amendment)

    * Democratic Party — (Upholders of tradition of slavery) Southern-based, states rights, white power

    (By the 1950s these roles begin a complete reversal with the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision ending legal apartheid — today's Democratic Party is more like the original Radical Republican Party)

    1930s:

    * Hoover and the (laissez-faire) business Republicans: The Great Depression (starting in 1929)

    * FDR and the New Deal Democrats: DJIA begins its rebound Those who say the "New Deal" didn't work (until the U.S. entered WWII in 1941) are clueless — as unsual. (Obama's New Deal 2 now up at the plate.)

    2008 and beyond:

    * Palinism embodies the new Culture War (Slavery was the Culture War of the 1850s, McCarthyism, in the 1950s)
    * Laissez-faire Republicans now play the role of Hoover Republicans in the New Deal.


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