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for my Senator, from the great state of California, Barbara Boxer.

For standing up when it counts.

The next couple days are going to be fun.

...UPDATE... This is really historic. I know this debate is kind of spitting into the wind, but the Democrats have grabbed hold of the political football, at least for a couple of hours. We can be happy about that.

Kudos to proud Democrats Debbie Stabenow, Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Frank Lautenberg (who trotted out a fundraising letter from Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell BRAGGING about delivering the state to Bush), Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, and the more to come. We have to thank them, with our praise, and with our dollars.

...UPDATE... This is going down to defeat in the Senate (and I assume the House, though I only have CSPAN-2 available to me right now), but it'll still get us on the front pages of America tomorrow. There is nothing wrong with using Constitutional methods to lodge a complaint, whatever we'll hear from the Republicans about how dreadful an affair this was. Protests are patriotic. In fact, they're what started America. Let's hope people take notice, and propel electoral reform into the forefront of political debate.