Sometimes DU seems so tame :-)
These 2 rants by Perry Logan are fairly good, in my opinion of course - at least I enjoyed them this morning as I was feeling down because of the Democratic cave in to Bush over time lines for Iraq.
http://perrylogan.org/THE CLEAN-UP
Just think: If the Republicans had successfully hacked the 2006 midterms (as they tried to do), the Neocon Rape would be ongoing.
Our wounded vets would still be lying around in their own urine--only no one would know it.
We would be watching Congress destroy internet neutrality, destroy Social Security, further destroy habeus corpus, continue buggering Congressional pages, prepare to nuke Iran, and confer more powers on the Worst President Since Time Began™.
Instead, we are beginning the clean-up:
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) have introduced the Healthy Families Act (HFA), which would guarantee that workers receive at least seven paid sick days each year. Tell Congress to support this legislation here.
House passes flag bill Bush opposed. Governors could order federal facilities to lower their flags to honor fallen military troops under legislation passed by the House Tuesday.
House Democratic leaders have decided to use their Honest Leadership and Open Government legislation from the 109th Congress as the basis for the lobbying reform bill that the House Judiciary Committee is expected to mark up this week. By doing so, the leaders are on a trajectory to meet key demands made by left-leaning advocacy groups favoring strong reform.
New union bill has the power to level playing field after conservative idealogues gutted workers' rights
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced a measure Monday to force the Pentagon to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and move the trials of Al Qaeda suspects to the United States.
Congress Probes Allegations Of Wrongdoing In Bush Reading Program
After more than a decade of government inaction, gay-rights proponents in Congress have gotten several major bills moving through the Democratic-controlled chambers, a development that could result in the greatest expansion of federal protections for gays and lesbians in US history.
Kucinich Officially Moves To Impeach Cheney
Congress To Pass Bill For October Troop Withdrawal
The Justice Department is conducting a probe of a $6 billion reading initiative at the center of President Bush's No Child Left Behind law, another blow to a program besieged by allegations of financial conflicts of interest and cronyism.
House and Senate Democrats reached a deal Friday afternoon on a package of tax cuts that will accompany a $2.10-an-hour increase in the federal minimum wage.<snip>
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Signal Accomplishments of The Worst President Ever™
First President to violate Department of Defense regulations prohibiting the use of uniformed miliary as props.
Bush is the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
First cokehead in the White House
First National Guard deserter
Lost more jobs in his first year than any President in history
Broke more international treaties than any in history
First President to close down the Post Office for three successive days (and if that isn't impeachable, what is?)
Lowest job growth in American history
More debt than all previous President's combined (WHOA!!!)
First administration to out a CIA agent for partisan reasons <snip>