[SecularHumanist] Senate Leaders Want to Give Legislative Branch to President?

[Guest guest]

Has anyone heard of this? What about checks and balances- the basis

of our democracy? Does anyone know more about this? For those who

say this has nothing to do with health- if our democracy is not

healthy- the people will surely be the ones to suffer- spreading the

word about this potential disease is worth a pound of cure...

Except cure for something like this is much, much harder to bring

about after the fact....

Comments?

Misty L. Trepke

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Breaking News: Republicans Silence Your Representatives

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Dear Supporter,

 

Sometimes partisan politics gets overheated -- I know that as well as

anyone. But when one party controls all three branches of

government, and then seeks to change the fundamental principles and

rules of our democracy, we need to talk about it soberly and

seriously.

 

The Republican Senate leaders have decided to fundamentally alter

the role of Congress -- they want to give George Bush unprecedented

power to manipulate the legislative branch and the courts.

 

Today Harry Reid and the Democratic Senators asked us, the American

people, to help them preserve the right of our elected

representatives to speak their mind on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

 

We have to act. Sign this petition, which we will deliver to every

U.S. Senator, asking them to protect the right to free speech in the

Senate. If they don't, it is not only their voice that will be

silenced -- it will be ours:

 

http://www.democrats.org/freespeech

<http://www.democrats.org/action/200503150001.html?psc=demnewsd>

 

Here are the facts: George Bush has appointed judges to lifetime

positions at a better rate than any president in nearly three

decades. More than 95% of his nominees have been approved. Only ten

nominees have been refused -- all because they are unqualified and

out of the mainstream.

 

But that's not enough. And on this issue, as on Social Security, it

is becoming more and more obvious to everyone that the Republican

leadership is out of touch with reality.

 

More Americans voted against George Bush than any sitting president

in history. And that same day, across the country, the Democratic

candidates for Senate received over 4 million more votes than

Republicans.

 

Americans did not endorse the fringe agenda to dismantle Social

Security. And they did not endorse dismantling the system of checks

and balances that have served our country for over 200 years.

 

Please tell your Senator to stand up for free speech:

 

http://www.democrats.org/freespeech

<http://www.democrats.org/action/200503150001.html?psc=demnewsd>

 

This is not a partisan issue -- it is an American issue. And we all

must act together in order to protect our democracy.

 

Thank you.

 

Gov. Howard Dean

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Governor Howard Dean, M.D.