Post election dirge

Is this what democracy looks like?  Casting about for some stability in a sea of monied-interests, blind anger, simplistic solutions and amnesia American government lurches precariously right-ward as voters say 'yes' to the Party of 'No!'  Governing is a messy business and people have short attention spans.  Given that we are, by nature, self-centered, tribal and unforgiving it isn't really unexpected that there was a backlash over the decisions, or lack of them, taken by the Democratic leadership over the past 22 months.

I could sing a litany about issues not addressed (immigration reform, energy independence), those poorly attended to (infrastructure jobs, DADT, the foreclosure crisis, failing to imprison Wall Street thieves) and those areas where some chest-thumping was in order (saving the American Car Industry, increasing mpg requirements, taking college loans away from rapacious banks, getting a major health care bill passed that faces down the most inhumane abuses, a stimulus bill -- while inadequate kept a lot of people from losing homes and hope -- getting us mostly out of Iraq, giving us some level of appreciation in a world that had turned against us).

Now the 'post election dirge' has many verses that could be created but this is a song in need of a finish.  How low it will go depends on whether President Obama will get some spine.  Americans want a leader who stands for something. Every time he has been abused by Republicans -- verbally or politically -- he comes back for more, like a wife beaten by an abusive husband.  What will it take to call the cops!?! 

So here is the last verse of the dirge:  Mr. President, don't make me sorry I voted for you.  When you stood tall and talked about your accomplishments on the campaign trail in Sept/Oct your poll numbers jumped.  Do you think was that just a coincidence.  Au contraire mon ami!  You were laying some wood upside the empty heads and rhetoric of Republicans -- who have no plans for anything or anyone -- except YOU -- which is to make you unemployed in 2013.  Wake Up!! 

DON'T YOU DARE allow those immoral, budget-killing, deficit-spiraling, noxious Bush Tax Cut Giveaway to America's wealthiest 2% to be extended!  If you do I will not give one dime to your re-election, make one call on your behalf, I will strip my fridge of my "Obama" magnets and encourage everyone I know to do the same.  Make the Republican leadership show their true stripes -- as if they haven't already!! -- and defend giving the wealthiest a break while tens of millions of Americans can't find work or afford to pay their mortgage or send their kids to school. 

Am creating a new song mix of some favorites -- so that I can have some music to lift my heart.  Any suggestions?  I have put the Mint Juleps "Higher and Higher" on it and "Jump, Jive an' Wail" by Louis Prima ... music can save me!