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"A little sunlight is the best disinfectant" -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
While America Sleeps
Drudge links to John McCaslin's Townhall.com column today, where the lede is a family's outrage over Michael Moore's use of footage of the military burial of a US Army Major. But is that more important than McCaslin's second item in the column? It may be journalism's first ever case of "burying the lede of ledes intentially buried...."
Sleepy-eyed Democrats aren't amused by the Republican-led "wee-hour" voting, including a groggy Ohio Rep. Sherrod Brown, who calls the previous five days "a bad week in Washington."
"Never before when the Democrats were in control, or when Newt Gingrich was [Republican] speaker of the House, never before has this House of Representatives operated in such secrecy," he says.
"At 2:54 a.m. on a Friday in March," he begins, "the House cut veterans' benefits by three votes. At 2:39 a.m. on a Friday in April, the House slashed education and health care by five votes. At 1:56 a.m. on a Friday in May, the House passed the tax-cut bill, weighted especially towards millionaires, by a handful of votes."
Is that the worst of it?
"At 2:33 a.m. on a Friday in June, the House passed the Medicare privatization bill by one vote. At 12:57 a.m. on a Friday in June, the House eviscerated Head Start by one vote. And then, after returning from summer recess, at 12:12 a.m. on a Friday . . . the House voted $87 billion for Iraq," he continues.
The cost of winning at any cost, it seems is open, accountable government -- you know, democracy. Democrat, Republican, I don't care. I figure you can come down on either side of any one of these issues and still be a decent human being. But Democrat, Republican, you ought to be outraged by this bullshit-- Your liberties could have been on the block. At this rate, sooner or later they will be.
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