And, they're late . . . no time, no time, no time! No time for the seemingly intractable difficulties Americans are enduring as they string us out further into their open-ended militarism. No time for thousands of seniors and the disabled who are struggling with high health care costs; no time to confront skyrocketing tuition costs; no time to roll back their tax breaks for Big Oil and invest the savings in alternative fuels; no time to increase the minimum wage; not even any time to fully implement the security recommendations of the 9-11 commission.
Our leaders in the House of Representatives announced today that Democrats will "actively resist adjournment" to force republicans to address these pressing issues before the November election. In an letter to Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, Democrats rejected republican "assertions that the people's business can wait."
"Though we have yet to receive a response from you, the urgency to act remains: from national security to economic security, from the cost of health care and college tuition to the price at the pump, our country is heading in the wrong direction," they wrote. "Anything less would be a serious abdication of our responsibilities as elected officials."
They will have to be forced into releasing their grip on our democracy through the earnest actions of our congressional representatives. Keeping the republicans from cutting and running out of town, forcing them to stay and focus on our problems and concerns, is the first step in pulling our country off of the ground in Iraq and setting it right again.
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