With the election of 2006 producing so many battles after Election Day, it put me in the mind of Andrew Jackson's post-truce victory in the Battle of New Orleans.
Hope you are old enough to remember the tune of this Johnny Horton hit.
In twenty and aught-six we took a little vote
on who would run America, the gallant or the mope.
We raised a little money and we put in lots of time
And when the votes were counted up the right wing lost its mind!
The GOP had hijacked our republic.
They made Georgie king and they started up a war.
It got so bad that his daddy wept in public.
Now their approval rate don’t even have a floor.
Slam-dunk, mushroom cloud, Niger forgeries
Mission accomplished, but we got catastrophe.
Abu Ghraib was not enough for idiots like these.
They went on vacation and they drowned old New Orleans.
The GOP had hijacked our republic.
They made Georgie king and they started up a war.
It got so bad that his daddy wept in public.
Now their approval rate don’t even have a floor.
Delay, Cunningham, Safavian and Ney
Libby and Abramoff we’re gonna lock away.
For Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Karl Rove as well,
We’ll just skip the prison part and send ‘em straight to Hell!
The GOP had hijacked our republic.
They made Georgie king and they started up a war.
It got so bad that his daddy wept in public.
Now their approval rate don’t even have a floor.
Bush forty three is hangin’ by a thread.
The neocons around him are lookin’ pretty dead.
It’s just beginning, we’ll set this country straight,
And take out the rest of them in two thousand and eight!
The GOP had hijacked our republic.
They made Georgie king and they started up a war.
It got so bad that his daddy wept in public.
Now their approval rate don’t even have a floor.
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