Yesterday, and Today

Two today, to catch up.

“A billion is a lot, and we’ve a few” – 
Lamenting Jerry Brown.  It’s quite a shame.
When all association with your name
Is measured with a number that is too
Much brobdingnagian to be of use
In any average summing, you are screwed
(At least as far as budgets go).  Alas,
The budget he’s proposing couldn’t pass
Without promoting moving, to elude
The higher taxes on the very rich.
It’s likely all the wealthy’d slip across
The border to the north, or east, a loss
That’d make it hard for any budget pitch
To last within a session of the men
Avoiding debt for Cali yet again.

And yesterday...

“Obama’s been a disappointing man
To many other nations.”  This is odd –
Conservatives aligning the façade
Of world opinion to the coming plan
To put in office Mitt.  The reasons here
Obama has for falling very short
Of world opinion are the very sort
Of reasons that, if weaker, would appear
To piss off all conservatives the more.
The global disappointment is a thing
Conservatives have treasured – let him bring
Authority, or troops, or speeches for
To call a region evil, and applause
Is given, while the world is given gauze.