New Poem: MEL AND JACK AND DANICA

 Mel Gibson Jack Ford Danica Patrick

 they build personal walls as high as the Babel Tower

 they probably say variations of F The Common People

 thinking they are advancing America by dragging 

 the gutter talking rambling carcass of Donald John Trump

 towards a finish line that isn’t what they imagine

 not the climax of a rancid second term in office

 to enable them to Keep What’s Theirs

 instead they’re pulling Trump towards what he dreads

 denials, delays, clang of prison door, silence

Rick Sanchez and the ghost of Richard Nixon.

I've never been able to watch now-former CNN cartoon news-anchor blowhard Rick Sanchez for more than a few minutes at a time.  Having said that, I was rather sickened by the anti-Semitic, anti-"Eastern intellectual elite" bilge that Sanchez blurted out on Sirius/XM leading to his firing earlier today:
http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/rick-sanchez-fired-over-remarks-on-jews-media-jon-stewart/19657894?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-w%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%7C174810

This is comparable to former President Richard Nixon's hateful anti-Semitic rantings:
http://hnn.us/articles/657.html

Joe Conason: advocating Bush officials pardon for telling "truth" about torture.

Joe Conason's been a reliable water-carrier for the Clintons over the past two decades--as well as a megaphone for whatever the centrist Democratic Leadership Council is espousing. Here's a link to Conason's recent Salon.com column where he expresses disdain for Patrick Leahy's concept of a "truth and reconciliation" commission where Bush officials would speak openly about the culture of rendition/torture/aggressive "interrogations" of the past eight years; Conason would rather see President Obama emulate Gerald Ford and offer pardons to the Bushies--provided they'll tell the truth: http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/02/13/leahy_commission/