Who's Running the Country, Part ?

It's not us, that's for damned sure. It seems the American citizen has a chance to affect the decisions every two years, reflected in our ability to boot assholes out of office when their abuses become to egregious to ignore any longer. From Susie Madrak at C&L, interesting little tidbit on who actually has some influence in Congress. Read her post -- I can't do it justice.

I also recommend keeping up with Barbara O'Brien's posts on health care reform at The Mahablog. She's another who's on top of it.

As a counter to Rep. Ross and his DINO friends, get this story about Rep. Anthony Weiner (D (a real one)-NY), who forced opponents of reform to go on record about "government run health care."