Four Leafed Clover Party's Over - Mars Stars' Stripes Gripes Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Tea Party channels much frustration at the state
EAch major party leaves democracy,
PART squabbles part denies reality
Yet Obama hasn't really done too great.
Tried and tested politicians fail,
Ensign's half-mast flown before the fall,
Alternatives seem just as bad withal,
PARody before the thresher's flail.
TYphoid or cholera appears the choice
TErrifying offered voters now,
As global golden calf before whom bow
PARTisan cash flushed lobbies' biased voice
TEAches all - both Dems and G.O.P.
PARTY's over for 'land of the free'!

Three generations sacrificed at altar
Erected by a burning Bush misleading
As due reaction more reactions feeding
Plays up to search for safety naught may alter.
Alas things aren't as simple as they seem for
Right and left have burned all but rhetoric
Trading present votes, oats metaphoric,
Yet future is foreclosed with all most dream for.
TEnse appear options still remaining open,
All pay for errors made, both young and old
PAst catches up too fast, in debt to China,
Roast on a spit it primed with speculation
The scope for hope wears thin as penetration
Yangtze yankees leaves with margin minor.
TEArs soon will fall amain, great expectations
PARTY's showered, pride fall fate of nations.

Torn between devil and deep blue sea some seek
Existential answers sadly lacking
A century of war, with no gold backing
Plays havoc with dollar credit so to speak.
Answers aren't easy, for less government
Refuses self-evidence: that to keep afloat
The ship depends on jobs which debt must bloat
Yet cuts pave way to mass unemployment
The fault lies at the feet of Bush and Cheney
Empty coffers leaving Lehmann Brothers, Bear,
Although both Freddie, Fannie blame must share.
PAtience is a virtue, answers zany
Rainy day may find to ease the mind
TYing loose ends to leave old woes behind.