{"id":302090,"date":"2019-06-21T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=302090"},"modified":"2019-06-21T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:00:33","slug":"the-sour-soup-of-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-sour-soup-of-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sour Soup of Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSome things are lawful, but awful. And that could go into the soup of impeachment.\u201d
\n\u2014Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee), <\/strong>
\nJudiciary Committee member, June 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

What if you don\u2019t like eating Capitol Hill partisan soup?
\nWhat if you don\u2019t like the way Republican Senators stew?
\nor\u00a045\u2019s loaded canned speeches in a tweet storm loop
\nGeorgia crackers and a cheating crooked cabinet too?<\/p>\n

Speaker Pelosi over and over reiterating \u2018no way Jose\u2019
\nnot wanting Trump to use impeachment for his benefit
\nshe knows the Republican Senate won\u2019t throw him away
\nand so 45 keeps on saying unlawful things he deems fit.<\/p>\n

The majority of the Democratic House says go go go
\nimpeachment could wind up the way it did for Clinton
\nthe House voted to impeach and the Senate said no
\na redacted Mueller\u2019s report now hits second printing.<\/p>\n

The more Americans that read it the better we all can see
\nhow the sour soup of impeachment feeds our democracy.<\/p>\n

A Laundry List of Not So Laughable Limericks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lady Melania Macbeth thankfully completely out of the picture
\n45\u2019s adult children and in-law draw up Middle East scriptures
\nJared Kushner in deep denial about MBS Prince of Araby
\nand Saudi involvement in chopping up journalist Kashoggi
\nwhile in DC Saudi hotel guests make the King of Debt richer.<\/p>\n

Cabinet member Elaine Chao McConnell the Cheater
\nis married to the United States Senate Majority leader
\nshe is not usually called Kentucky\u2019s Mrs. Mitch McConnell
\nbut is busy learning corrupt practices from her boss the Donald
\nfor hubby\u2019s campaign she\u2019s already a multi million dollar feeder.<\/p>\n

Over thirty Trump staffers and cabinet members by name
\nhave been fired, are in jail, resigned, or quit in shame
\nCommerce Sec\u2019y Wilbur Ross and Madame Cheater Chao
\nare coming under more intense corruption scrutiny now
\nwith Bigly Boss 45 at the base of their respective blame.<\/p>\n

Gleeful Trumpistas wrote in their columns \u201c he is vindicated \u201d
\nbut that\u2019s not what Mueller\u2019s four hundred page report indicated
\nthere are some who still claim the report took Trump off the hook
\nturns out they had never even seen or read Special Counsel\u2019s book
\nbut believed what Attorney General Barr\u2019s four page letter stated.<\/p>\n

Doing their job the House Oversight Legislative Committee
\nrequested papers to find obstruction \u2013 well didn\u2019t or did he
\nwhen their subpoenas were refused they threatened contempt
\nso AG Barr finally released some papers to himself redempt
\ncounterintelligence grand jury reports will show no pity.<\/p>\n

Impeachment inquiry is part of Congressional oversight
\ndue to Republican foot dragging it won\u2019t happen over night
\nfrom US Senate President Mitch McConnell right on down
\npartisan politicians protect the malignant narcissistic clown
\nwhose dalliance with dictators proves he\u2019s not very bright.<\/p>\n

On the 2020 Horizon There is Always Hope<\/strong>
\nA satiric sonnet rap on the devolution of democracy<\/em><\/p>\n

No homes for the homo, Sec\u2019y Ben Carson says \u2018No Mo\u2019
\nselective discriminatory social surgery dystopic mergery
\nSec\u2019y Ben Carson says of transgender lets bar some
\nterrible tragic times caused by Trumpian swamp slimes
\nas the King of Debt counts his pennies, nickels, and dimes
\nwant more Trumpista true and incredible fables for sure
\nsee Ben Carson\u2019s purchase of costly tables and furniture
\nno government help for homeless LGBTQ transgender
\nthis new D. Trump\/ B. Carson policy is a real mind bender
\nshow me who Trump goes with I\u2019ll tell you what they are
\na bunch of creeps, cheats, and crooks who don\u2019t read books
\nsickly sycophants, small minded folks that have strayed afar
\nIrish protest rhyme \u201c up the long ladder and down the short rope\u201d
\n2020 is on the horizon and optimists believe there is always hope.<\/p>\n

Joey ‘Pepe Batbon’ Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)
\nJoey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired teacher and has been named a poet laureate of Tinian. He has taught English in CNMI public schools for the past 30 years. He has also taught in Alaska, New Orleans, and Las Vegas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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