Thursday, July 28, 2005

A Note from Senator Boxer

I'm on Barbara Boxer's mailing list. The following appeared in my e-mails this evening.

"Late Tuesday night, Republican Leader Bill Frist interrupted Senate debate on the defense authorization bill, abruptly changing gears to call up a different piece of legislation that apparently demanded our immediate consideration.

"Senator Frist assured us that this was a "very important" bill that absolutely required action before the Senate's August recess. Surely Senator Frist would only postpone consideration of the defense authorization bill until September for a very good reason, right?

"So was Senator Frist calling up legislation to fix our broken health care system? No.

"Was it a bill to improve education for our kids? Nope.

"Strengthening Social Security? No, not that either.

"No, instead of finishing our work on the defense authorization bill during a time of war, Senator Frist and his buddies over at the National Rifle Association decided it was critically important to consider new legislation shielding gun manufacturers from civil liability lawsuits, and to do it right now.

"Can there be a better example of how upside-down the radical right wing's priorities are, and why we need to return control of Congress to the Democrats?"

You ever notice how so much of Republican's shady legislation gets passed in the evening or very late at night after the nation's presses have already printed tomorrow's edition of yesterday's news? Why is that I wonder?

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