The Governator

The Governator

By Paul Peete

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You were a bodybuilder before you got your first movie role, Conan the Barbarian. I guess that's why you like to bully those who differ politically from you. Bully the men, and fondle the women! Way to go Arnold! Oh yeah, you called the assemblymen Girly men; did you pose nude for them like you did in that Gay magazine? Do the women in Sacramento have to guard their breasts and buttocks when you are in the room!

Tell us Arnold! Was it the steroids that make you so aggressive? How can we know that you are safe to be around; you might just snap on us, think you are in one of your kill’em all movies and just start wiping folks out!

You are great at those one liners! Girlie men, political addicts! Isn’t that what you did in your movies; constant one liners to conceal the fact that you fail to grasp the language or the real issues.

Oh and by the way, Arnold, it’s Cauliflower not Caulifornia! It’s embarrassing to have a Governor who can’t even say the name of the state he governs! Arnold tell the truth; you really want to fondle the voters of California. Don’t you? You got away with lying before; met with Michael Milken and Ken Lay last time you ran, then said you don’t even remember meeting them! The way you suck up to money and power, no way you would have forgotten the head thief in charge of Enron, and the biggest Computer thief ever!

Now you say that folks who pay $90,000 to get to meet you won’t receive any special consideration, just business as usual. With your convenient memory, you will forget meeting with them too, after you get re-elected! Oh, that lil two fer 90k sounds like a double whammy, the time you are selling them belongs to the California voters, and the access you allow based on their contributions, shows that you are for sale to the highest bidder!

How soon before you start your Presidential Bid? Are you planning on spending California taxpayers money to get that hat in the ring? Maybe California deserves to have another third rate actor for our governor! We were dumb enough to believe you when you said you would only be a one-term governor working for the People's needs. Yeah I guess we should have listened to you when you said "I'll be bach". At least Ronald Reagan had more lines in Bedtime for Bonzo than Bonzo!

OK, you got one term pretending you care about this state. Now you want another term terminating our legal rights, terminating our legal protections, terminating the forward thinking programs we as Californians expect. Your machine tries to substitute sound bites and ad blitzes for public debate and issue driven discussion. Now your money machine is in full gear and your stealth campaign is already costing California voters money to pay for you and your entourage to travel around the country to raise more money for your gubernatorial run.

You ran claiming you were a different kind of Republican, but there you were at the Republican convention praising G.W. like George was your daddy. The same George Bush who let the energy thieves rob Californians of billions of dollars of taxpayers money. The same G. W. who hired the energy chief Ken Lay told him to.

Wake up California! You better believe they’re grooming Arnold to become the next Republican presidential candidate. Even trying to change the constitution so that he can run for president! I wonder how he pronounces United States of America. Probably put a couple of KKs in it, and a couple Nazi heel clicks. Oh and Arnold, when we pledge allegiance, we put our hand on our heart, not overhead like your dad’s Hitler salute.

Oh yeah, It was you who stated that you really admired Hitler didn’t you. No wonder you love G.W.! At least you have an excuse. All your exercise was in your muscles not in your intellect.

Schwarze Negger; even your name suggests Austrian disdain for your roots; named you black neggar! So are you going to come out of the closet Ah-nold, admit that you are a womanizing, self aggrandizing, power hungry, right wing supported, political lightweight, jockeying for legitimacy on one liners and celebrity! You were a third rate actor, I saw them all, don’t even go there, and unfortunately for all of us, a third rate governor!

I see you are still playing the role of the Terminator in your head, Arnold. Yeah terminating the kid’s school money, terminating the college funds, and terminating health care for needy elder citizens! Hell you even want to terminate our rights as voters to even discuss issues. Just know this, Ah-nold, its going to be fact based and logic driven this time and one liners are gonna come back to bite you. Oh and for now! Hasta La Vista, Baaaaaaby, I’ll be Bachhhhhhh,

The Pedulum

The Pendulum

By Paul Peete

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George swore he was the compassionate conservative selection

Hanging chads instead of niggahs, his neocons stole the election

Tax cuts were his single mantra, and he sang it like Sinatra

Sombitch gave it all to the rich, left the poor without a stitch,

No child left behind, could’a meant kill em all in his mind.

To really line their pockets, gotta use bombs, jets n’ rockets,

911 paved the way, got the Taliban and let Osama get away,

The Middle East takeover plot was In play ,

Made Afghanistan and Iraq pets

Saudi puppets in Mecca, Israeli allies poised,

Don’t worry folks heck naw, its just me n the boys!

So whom do we have to thank?

The folks who his daddy used to rank

The Bushwhack cult, led by George the elder,

Took control of the world’s gas tank.

Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld went helter skelter,

W used terror to control what Americans think.

al-Qaida and Osama made us all blink

Before long The Dixie Chicks latest song was being sung,

And there was the sudden swift swing of the Pendulum.

Folks began to see their plan for world domination,

That we were all at the beck n’ call of the corporation.

And 3 years later what do we see?

No WMD, no quick victory,

nothing but the glorification of mediocrity.

Daily torrents of lies and hypocrisy,

constant attacks on our democracy.

He’ll leave a helluva legacy, trillions in debt,

Foreign oil dependency, the planet’s death

Body bags compounding, the national debt astounding,

Katrina showed Homeland Security wasn’t how it’s sounding

Kanye said what needed to be said; suddenly states aren’t so red

W knows the time has come for the fateful swing of the pendulum

Retired Generals coming out the woodwork to say Rumsfeld’s a jerk,

Like Fema’s Brownie W loves his work, instead he fired Powell

Or Colin threw in the towel disagreeing with Rumsfeld’s avowals

And when you stand at the pump paying $4 a gallon for gas,

Try to remember who it is that’s screwing your ass.

W’s and his boys, the Ken Lays, Tom Delays,

Libby, the white house he said she said,

Bush’s bullshit has been finally exposed;

We listen to him now while holdin’ our nose.

Last Call for American Truth

Is it possible that the American people have finally found out what has happened to their Democracy? President Bush’s approval rating is tanking as steadily as the cost of tanking up rises. Vice President Cheney is fading into obscurity amid calls for his retirement; probably spending his days tracking the rise in his Halliburton holdings, now that his conflations and lies about Iraq’s terrorism connections and capabilities are exposed.

Tom Delay has faded from the scene after the Republican controlled House of Representatives had to reverse their earlier attempt to insulate him from culpability due to the public furor over their ethics rule changes. Even Bill Frist and his fellow right wing Senate cohorts are trying to look more like populists as they agonize over the pending November election campaign.

The only way the American people have any chance to get the truth about the lead up to the war in Iraq and the cozy relationship between Bush/Cheney team and corporate pals, is to kick out many Republicans from congress come this November. They have served as a rubber stamp for this administration ever since his election. It is no wonder W has not had to veto one piece of legislation in five and a half years.

Ever since the Supreme Court validated his takeover in Florida, this trio of neocon controlled branches have run roughshod over democracy as the Democrats in congress, who have no say so whatever in the legislative, investigative processes, are barred from any significant input on the functions of governance. Checks and balances is why the framers chose three separate branches of government in the first place.

The only checks and balances apparent have been the blank checks written at the peoples expense to corporations and the negative balances mounting in the national debt. Cooked intelligence, contrived reasons for eavesdropping on private citizens, the muzzling of any government agents who stray from their monotone, corporate giveaways, pure pork barrel pilfering, all told, I wonder if the voting public will finally say enough is enough. Or will the Rove led Republicans once again perform their rhetorical magic of confusing voters on hot button issues to betray the interests of Democracy.