The Republican agenda

One of my clients, WTSN in Dover, NH, carries radio programs featuring Dennis Miller, Mike Huckabee, and Harley Carnes, among others, and I've picked up a good deal of the Republican agenda from their broadcasts. It boils down to these points:

1. Paint President Obama as alien and un-American, taking advantage of his African ancestry;

2. Oppose anything proposed by his administration, no matter what;

3. Promote policies likely to sabotage any economic recovery on his watch;

4. Damn Democrats as fiscally irresponsible, yet support trillion-dollar wars while calling for tax cuts;

5. Fool enough of the people enough of the time, keeping in mind that the rich are the only ones who matter.

One of my favorite poems

"Cat", by J.R.R. Tolkien

The fat cat on the mat
may seem to dream
of nice mice that suffice
for him, or cream;
but he free, maybe,
walks in thought
unbowed, proud, where loud
roared and fought
his kin, lean and slim,
or deep in den
in the East feasted on beasts
and tender men.
The giant lion with iron
claw in paw,
and huge ruthless tooth
in gory jaw;
the pard dark-starred,
fleet upon feet,
that oft soft from aloft
leaps upon his meat
where woods loom in gloom --
far now they be,
fierce and free,
and tamed is he;
but fat cat on the mat
kept as a pet
he does not forget.