Headline: Trump and McConnell Turn on Each Other
Well, this is an interesting switch —
The Don’s in a fistfight with Mitch!
The winner? Why choose?
Let’s hope they both lose!
And hey, isn’t karma a bitch?
Author: Steve Hirsch
Steve is a retired high-tech marketing specialist and former chairman of a college humanities division. He's a lover of Shakespeare and classical music, so he writes limericks and plays the accordion. Go figure.
Occasional Limerick #2: February 12
Headline: Despite Evidence, Most Republican Senators Will Vote Party Line on Impeachment
What? Judge with a true open mind?
How silly; we’re lock-step aligned —
We do not see evidence
Against Party Presidents,
As, after all, Justice is Blind.
Occasional Limerick #1, Feb. 1
Headline: GOP Refuses to Condemn Representatives Advancing Conspiracy Theories
There’s Pedophile Pizza in Queens!
The Covid shot alters your genes!
(Include Jewish Lasers –
They’ll help your fund raisers.
And don’t forget chips in vaccines.)
January 21
Headline: Joe Biden is President – Thank you, All!
Now after a peaceful transition,
My hopes have achieved their fruition.
Thanks for reading, my friend –
But all things must end.
Polimericks has finished its mission.
Thank you, everyone, for your support and encouragement. I’m going to give my addled brain a rest (no more 3am revisions!). I’ll be back now and then with some new limericks if events suggest them, but this is finis for the daily posts.
Thank you all, again. Here’s to saner times!
Bring us together, Joe!
— Steve
January 20, Inauguration Day
Headline: Trump to Exit with Military Ceremony at Andrews AFB
Oh, dear: you have fallen so far, Don,
So just one more time, grant a pardon.
Then leave with a flourish
Which might serve to nourish
Your need for a last power hard-on.
January 19
Headline: Nation Braces for Violence Before Inauguration
If we can just get through mid-week
With nary a scream or a shriek,
We might just exhale
And stop looking pale….
But who knows what Donald might wreak?
January 18
Headline: GOP Signals it Will Oppose Biden’s $15 Minimum Wage Proposal
We are the true friends of the masses!
Defenders of you lower classes.
But a fifteen buck wage
Isn’t fiscally sage….
(They’ll buy it, the credulous asses.)
January 15
Headline: In Impeachment Debates, GOP Calls for “Unity”
Suddenly, they’re all for “unity,”
Which means: “We are seeking immunity
From all guilt and remorse,
As we never, of course,
Let him bully and lie with impunity.”
January 14
Headline: Trump Impeached for a Second Time
I’m feeling no sense of elation,
Just sadness and fear and frustration.
The man’s been disgraced,
But that has not erased
The grave harm he has done to this nation.
January 13
Headline: Congress to Vote on Articles of Impeachment Today
This is the moment that teaches:
We’ll see what the vote to impeach is,
And who’s of the faction
That will not take action
While still making very nice speeches.
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