The Democratic Congress celebrated the first birthday of its triumphant victory with the usual spinelessness, confirming waterboard wiggler Michael Mukasey as Attorney General. We at Max and the Marginalized wrote them a song to wish them happy birthday. Click the play button below to listen to Banner Year.
Max and the Marginalized are a Los Angeles based band that writes and records a song a week and posts every Thursday. You can find all their songs here.
Banner Year
365 days ago I stayed awake 'til four
Watching the numbers come up from under and give us control of the floor
But if I'd seen it all in a crystal ball I'd have thrown it through the TV
Standing your ground with a spine no thicker than the margin of victory
By degrees you diminished our demand
Swearing to hold them accountable, instead you held their hand
It's been a banner year
So blow the candles out and wish for your convictions that have long since disappeared
And only then might we remember exactly why it is that we brought you here
It's been a banner year
What took place in the next 60 days, I can't quite ascertain
By the time I'd awoken the people had spoken but your ears got messed up on the plane
Up 'til that night you promised a fight, so why'd we acquiesce?
In South Dakota, a man in a coma, well he hardly did much less
Let's address the matter of the vote you took last week
I don't assume wiggle room with those kinds of techniques
It's been a banner year
So blow the candles out and wish for your convictions that have long since disappeared
And only then might we remember exactly why it is that we brought you here
It's been a banner year
Reaching a hand across the divide is not what this is about
No one asked for a compromise, we asked you to get us out
And 365 days from now I'll be watching up 'til the end
And if we give just a little and shoot for the middle then we'll miss the mark again
It's been a banner year
So blow the candles out and wish for your convictions that have long since disappeared
And only then might we remember exactly why it is that we brought you here
It's been a banner year