The republicans pulled a political coup over the democrats today, I think. How congress can play politics with people's lives, I just don't understand. Some of the slimiest people in the world are in the congress. I am ashamed of the people who represent us. What does that say for us as a country? NOT MUCH! Zarqawi was killed this week by 2x500 pound bombs. Of course there were others killed as well. The word is the war so far has cost 350 billion dollars and 2500 american lives, and possibly over 100,00 iraqis dead. All for what? So the war profiteers can fill their coffers with blood money? I know in some ways I am naive, but not about my principles. I know right from wrong and I am not afraid to state it. The republicans say the democrats want to "cut an run" which is not true. The republicans continue to "lie and cheat" and have no guilty conscience about it. I have started reading David Sirota's book "Hostile Takeover". A third party sounds very good right now. The republicans have never been the party of the little guy. The democrats used to be the party for the little guy, but somewhere along the way it lost its way. Who is fighting for the little powerless guy? NO ONE!!!
The state of affairs this country is in is very, very sad. We are no longer respected by the rest of the world. A very great loss! Who in this world will believe what we say? It is going to take a long time to repair the damage Bush and his cronies have done. Our great democracy is slipping away right under our noses!

I just read Senator Jack Reed's statement, read on the senate floor, on the repeal of the Estate Tax. He is the caring and thoughtful person I thought he was. I am very proud to have him for a senator. There are very few like him around these days. He hasn't forgotten about the little guy. Why is it that too many times the good guys come in last. I have been reading about what went on in Ohio in the 2004 election. Votes were stolen or stifled in so many sneaky, ruthless, and dishonest ways. People like Karl Rove, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, and I could go on are liars, mean-spirited, ruthless, and will do anything to win. They care nothing about the little guy who struggles everyday just to feed and cloth his/her family. The very people government is supposed to help, get no help.