New Federal Ombudsman To Oversee Congress

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By Bob Higgins

I gassed up this morning and it cost me over three bucks a gallon, on the way home I stopped at the store for a loaf of bread which cost me $1.39 for the same loaf of crappy white sandwich bread I paid $.99 for a month ago.

I pulled into the driveway, got the morning paper out of the bushes where it's easier to throw apparently than on the actual porch and learned that Afghanistan was blowing up again, the intelligence community was about to move in to my spare room, four more of our soldiers and several dozen Iraqis were killed in the endless insanity in that beleaguered country, the stock market took a two hundred point dive, and the Senate Judiciary committee had retreated into a private closet to pass an amendment to the constitution of the United States of America banning Gay marriage.

I have never been a fan of decadent and despotic dictators but Nero at least provided music while Rome burned around him. These stupid bastards are playing futile symbolic board games in the capital's hidden chambers while the republic descends into ruin

This "do nothing but give the appearance of doing something Congress" should be ashamed of themselves. The vote for this absolutely asinine amendment was, predictably, straight down party lines and the esteemed chairman Arlen Specter who had been on the record as saying he is totally opposed to it, snuck his pathetic group of Republican lickspittles into a private room to avoid public scrutiny and in a vote of ten to eight approved the measure that would be the first amendment to the constitution making discrimination the law of the land.

More: http://agonist.org/bobhiggins/20060519/new_federal_ombudsman_to_oversee_congress

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1. Interesting Article

Did they really pass the marriage amendment? I thought a new amendment had to be ratified in the states? Man, I'm slipping.