Reply #29: here's my story

[Neecy]

I've been a Kerry supporter since he was in the single digits, so I'm not a bandwagoner.

I've been following the senate debate on the Omnibus Appropriations bill, and was beyond disgusted today that once again, the Senate Democrats got rolled and the result is the screwing of the middle and working classes in favor of the NRA and Bush's corporate contributers.

Then I switched and watched Dean on CSPAN-1. He sounded good.

Then I switched around cable news channels and saw Monday's Dean clip ridiculed at least two dozen times.

Then I watched the debate and saw three United States Senators crow about "leadership" when the Senate has been fully complicit in turning this country into a dictatorship (Kennedy and Byrd exempted). Where was their 'leadership' this week when 8 million Americans lost their overtime pay? Or when the NRA won the right to destroy handgun sales records in 24 hours, allowing guns into the hands of felons and wife beaters? Or allowing FOX to dominate local markets?

And then I went to Dean's website and donated $100.00. I'm so pissed today that I honestly wonder if anyone currently in the Senate - the same boys and girls who brought us the IWR and the Patriot Act - can really change things. And suddenly it makes sense why they've been kicking the crap out of Dean. If more people are like me, there'll be a backlash against this "all Dean on Monday all the time" news coverage.