blue-shift

Ted Cruz was seated as an irritant
big Red thumb in Obama's Purple eye.
His re-election's not self-evident;
real Texans have sound cause to wonder why.
Two Ivy League degrees say he's a Yank
stray bulldog in their longhorn cavalcade.
A carpetbagger pulling a bad prank
they're not amused by Rafa's masquerade.
First, Alabama jettisoned Roy Moore,
now Texans poise to see the last of Ted
six years of whining get to be a bore
the LoneStar's shifting Blue, that gleamed so Red.
Joe Manchin may still sell his coal-black soul.
But--'til he does--McConnell's lost control.