Saturday, April 30, 2005

Rep John Conyers Blog

John Conyers, Democratic Representative from Michigan, who has been at the forefront of investigating the voting fraud in Ohio, now has a blog. Worth checking out. He is very active on many fronts against the Repuglicans and their wingnut agenda.

Another representative, this one from Virginia, has a scathing interview on Rawstory.com. An excerpt:

"I think the Republicans basically resent the poor and they figure if we can get the poor investing in the stock market, maybe they’ll start thinking like Republicans," Moran said. "God help us."

The Virginian said he believes that the Republican base has used Bush to push Social Security reform, a project that he says is essentially one to axe Social Security.

"I think they realized that they’re never going to find anybody who is as willing to carry out the agenda of these Republican right wing nuts and reverse the course of American progress," he remarked. "This is their chance. This is their chance to cut taxes down to the bone. This is their chance to repeal Social Security and to bankrupt Medicare and Medicaid."

President Bush is holding an event to promote his plan in Moran's district Friday. The events—like most of those the president held during his presidential campaign—are prescreened to include supporters. Moran suggested that such events may have contributed to what he sees as a sense of "self-delusion" Bush has shown in promoting a plan that polls poorly with the American public.

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