A Song of Rafael - Killing a Country on Cruz Control

"Okay, who hates America? Raise your hand."

“I got fury in my soul

Fury's gonna take me to the glory goal 
In my mind
I can't study war no more
Save the people
Save the children
Save the country, now” – Laura Nyro

As of the date of this publication, our government is still shut down and the minute minority of the regressive, radical-right remains ruling the roost, while Canadian Cruz continues as uncrowned, craven king of the crazies.

A tidbit of a taste of the consequences in merely these last few days; just some results of this repugnant Republican reprobation –

800,000 government employees have been furloughed, while another 1.5 million essential workers must remain on duty, and in both situations, sans salary.

In the sphere of safety there are some startling and concerning particulars as the FDA is cutting back on food inspections, the EPA can’t currently monitor pollution or pesticides, the Labor Department has curtailed enforcement of workplace safety regulations, and the Center of Disease control has ceased, well, controlling disease – now, take a nice, big healthy breath of fresh air, shake a neighbors hand, and dig into that apple.

New, more accurate party logo

But luckily, on the plus side, with this intrusive, socialist, expensive, big brother government on lockdown, we are surely socking away savings like Scrooge at a Costco. Well, perhaps on Fox News, but in this solar system, the government shutdown is costing American taxpayers 150 million dollars a day, all thanks to the largesse and illogical logic of Ted Cruz and the celebrated, and famously fiscally-conservative GOP .

For Cruz and Boehner and Cantor and those of their icky ilk, who detest our government and despise America in their current incarnations, and express such daily, in ways both direct and subtle – rather than serve people and institutions so abhorrent, why not migrate to a locale more suiting their repellant temperaments? As the GOP is so smitten and man-crushed with Vladimir Putin, and lovingly view him as such a worthy world leader and one who has so outshone and outclassed our President, may I suggest Russia – a Tea-Publican Wonderland who’s leaders  persecute and oppress the identical populace that Conservatives do.

Tea Party Pin-up Vladimir Putin

Sometimes you can just picture the Republicans twisting the ends of their big, black waxed mustaches and laughing loud with evil glee, as they tie damsels to train tracks, kick puppies and deprive children of food and needed medical care. Their masters, the Koch brothers, pat their heads, and smile wide in proud approval, and Ted Cruz, their most powerful puppet, destroys a Democracy, with delirious dreams of a purchased Pennsylvania Avenue occupancy.

Role Model, Snidely Whiplash

 A Song of Rafael

He sallied forth from north of the border

With goals to create chaos and disorder

To break down a country

And rebuild it again

As a place only fitting for wealthy white men

Se nombre, Rafael

But he must go by Ted

Use his real Cuban name

His career would be dead.

In a Tea Party realm

For a Tea Party base

Where you’re only worthwhile

With a Caucasian face.

We must all be the same

No blacks, no browns, no yellows, no reds

Lest the Red Queen exclaim

Off with their heads

Palin can vouch for your brain and your wit

Congrats, you're endorsed by our land's biggest twit

You share the same loathing, you share the same scorn

You wish ill on others,

That is, once they are born.

So, he sneers, he scowls, he boasts and he brags

As the poor beg on streets, coins in torn paper bags

And the middle class fail, ‘til they owe so much debt

They may linger in jail

But he’ll feel no regret

The needy, the starving, the children, the ill

His Right will not pass a compassionate bill.

Best to shutter the state, best to close down the vault

They continue to say it’s the powerless fault

          The point of this pointlessness

The reason for pain

Only Rafael's selfish and personal gain

Presidential aspirations, political machinations, societal deviations

Until nothing but elites, Kochs and Romneys remain

"Say goodnight, Gracie..."

Now, enjoy the much missed Fifth Dimension with their recording of a Laura Nyro classic, “Save the Country.”