Like Lucy with Her Football

You did it again, Senatorial

Democrats. How naïve!

You keep falling for the tricks

McConnell has up his sleeve.

Long ago a funding bill

Could easily have been sent--

One with bipartisan support--

To the president.

Republican leaders chose, however,

To play a game, and that's

How they let a shutdown occur

And then blame Democrats.

True, the president's wishy-washy

Feelings aren't always clear.

It doesn't help when bigoted voices

Are whispering in his ear--

Voices of Kelly, Steve Miller,

Iowan Steve King,

And Tom Cotton from Arkansas,

All with a racist sting.

And so for now the fate of the Dreamers

Is a question mark.

You trust that McConnell won't continue

To leave them in the dark?

McConnell waits--like Lucy with her football--

For you to run up and kick it.

Will you fall for the trick again,

Or tell him where to stick it?

-by Bob B (1-23-18)