Tag Archives: GOP

Irony and the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill

By Robin Bates | Published: May 26, 2025

The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” is perfect in its rottenness–like William Carlos Williams’ rotten apple in “Perfection.”

By Robin Bates | Published: December 2, 2024

T.S. Eliot’s “Waste Land” does a good job of describing Trump’s Congressional enablers.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 13, 2024

Many in the GOP who condemned January 6 when it happened now, like Winston Smith, love Big Brother.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 4, 2024

Is civic virtue becoming a relic of the past? Gullliver’s Travels can help keep it alive.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 15, 2024

The competition to be Trump’s VP resembles the stick leaping and crawling contest in Lilliput.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 1, 2024

A “Paradise Lost” phrase, delivered by the character Sin, sums up today’s GOP.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 9, 2024

Blake’s “Little Black Boy,” quoted by Lamott in her latest book, is a complex exploration of racism.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2024

Biden called for truth telling in a recent speech, reminding me of Cowper’s “The Task.”

By Robin Bates | Published: December 27, 2023

Certain GOP pols are behaving like Dickens villains when it comes to the poor.