This article illustrates the gravity of our situation. We're going to evict bush and his henchmen. We need bipartisan support, and we need mainstream media to report our efforts.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9587<snips>
Never before has the House of Representatives operated in such secrecy:
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Always in the middle of the night. Always after the press had passed their deadlines. Always after the American people had turned off the news and gone to bed.
What did the public see? At best, Americans read a small story with a brief explanation of the bill and the vote count in Saturday's papers.
But what did the public miss? They didn't see the House votes, which normally take no more than 20 minutes, dragging on for as long as an hour as members of the Republican leadership trolled for enough votes to cobble together a majority.
They didn't see GOP leaders stalking the floor for whoever was not in line. They didn't see Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay coerce enough Republican members into switching their votes to produce the desired result.
In other words, they didn't see the subversion of democracy. There's more. Read it.
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