New song – The Cavalry In Cuffs

What can I say about our victory the other night that hasn’t yet been said? Very little, except to rehammer the point that with unity and reconciliation must come justice, and we don’t think that investigating and prosecuting the crimes of the current administration is a novel or fringe idea at all. Enjoy “The Cavalry In Cuffs”.

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The Cavalry in Cuffs

A flick of a fingernail clawed away and broke the seal
Split the loop from hoop to hoop on the jumprope anthem of bad ideas
It’s incomplete ’cause repudiation’s fine and good
It comes up wanting if it don’t pack the punishment that we know it should

Sweet retribution won’t you come and wipe away
All the derelictions of the last two thousand yesterdays
Sweet absolution, I’m afraid that won’t come up
No, not ’til the cavalry gets carried off in cuffs
An indictment, it will never be enough

Is it a lot to ask to just say thank you and move right on
Turn one eye blind to countless crimes and let those bygones be bygones
And let them rejoice and rejoin the company of magistrates
They’re angling for faces on coins, they should be printing license plates

Sweet retribution won’t you come and wipe away
All the derelictions of the last two thousand yesterdays
Sweet absolution, I’m afraid that won’t come up
No, not ’til the cavalry gets carried off in cuffs
An indictment, it will never be enough

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Max Cleland Vengeance Fund

Crossposted at Huffington Post

In 2002, Saxby Chambliss won his Georgia Senate seat against incumbent Democrat Max Cleland, a triple-amputee Vietnam Vet. He deployed tactics that would make Lee Atwater wince — a barrage of ads against him pairing him with images of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and questioning his commitment to a safe America. In one of the last accurate statements John McCain would make for many years, he called this ad “worse than disgraceful”:

Thanks to Georgia law that requires 50% of the vote for the win, Chambliss’s race against Democratic challenger is going to a runoff (Chambliss is at 49.9). There are a lot of reasons to help Jim Martin: his call for lower taxes on the middle class, his support of bringing troops home from Iraq, support for health care for every American, and an expansion of Veterans benefits to National Guard and Reserve soldiers whose current benefits are dwarfed by the huge burden they are currently bearing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yes, those are all perfectly good reasons, but I’m appealing to your worse angels today. Please help Jim Martin defeat Saxby Chambliss in the name of sweet, sweet retribution for the scare campaign that painted a Max Cleland as unconcerned with the safety of our country.

He’s going to need help to win. Please chip in — for Max.