Glenn Greenwald recognises that we are in for a long, hard slog in our fight to protect the Constitution of the United States from the current Imperial Administration which seems determined to destroy it; it is easy to become discouraged when the White House seems to successfully halt us on every front, but as Greenwald says, this will happen "only if Bush opponents internalize the notion that they will inevitably lose because everything is against them and there is no way to change that". So what can we do? We need to make our voices heard in the right place at the right time which means looking at the 2006 midterm elections. 33 Senators and 495 Members of the House of Representatives are standing for election this year, and there will be many state and local elections as well. The 2006 Primaries are well underway and it's time to see how many of the corrupt SOBs we can dump. So who is out there? Who has ideas, energy and focus?
Fighting Dems
Veterans' Alliance for Security and Democracy
Band of Brothers
Fighting Dems on AirAmerica
ActBlue Netroots Candidates
Progressive Patriots
Blue Force
Look them up, find out more about them. Help them out, too--Hillary doesn't need your money and Joe Lieberman doesn't deserve it. UPDATE: The NYT has an article about the Fighting Dems today; this is the time, one and all, "because it's on, motherf**kers"!
We must remind ourselves that all is not lost, and who better to tell us that than either Buffy or Shakespeare's Henry V? It's Shakespeare tonight. Yes, Henry chooses to attack France, but he is also the underdog in this battle of revanchist foreign conquest and he depends on his soldiers to win. It is their resolve to trust Henry and to do their duty well that makes England victorious. Henry knows how to lead and calls on nobleman and commoner alike to come together as a unit that can totally depend on each other and finally trust and admire each other as well. Henry makes a Band of Brothers, and this is our time to be of "that happy few".
(before Harfleur: III,i)
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood...
...For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit...
(and before Agincourt, IV,iii)
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
And here's some theme music to keep your spirits up:
Wango Tango--Ted Nugent
Fight Song--Scott Stapp
I am Me--Ashlee Simpson
Eternal POD
Baby Got Back--Britney Spears
AS IF! This is the real music list:
Day after tomorrow--Tom Waits
War pigs--Black Sabbath or Faith No More
Two soldiers --Cowboy Junkies
Tugboat--British seapower
Am I demon--Danzig
Brothers in arms--Dire Straits
Unknown soldier--Doors
My hero--Foo Fighters
Fortunes of war--Iron Maiden
And the band played waltzing matilda--John Mcdermott or the Pogues
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