Saturday, October 4, 2008

'I'll come back for that'


One month from today, when I go to the polls, I'll remember that picture.

All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for election on November 4th. Yesterday afternoon, 263 members of "the people's house" defied the will of their constituents and voted in favor of the trillion-dollar corporate-bailout bill, two days after 74 members of the U.S. Senate approved the same pork-laden legislation. A total of 35 Senate seats will be contested in the upcoming election.

I can't speak for others, but the self-congratulatory smile on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's face is all the fuel I need to stoke my anti-incumbent ire.