We're not gonna take it!

To listen to some Democratic Presidential aspirants, you'd think that the Congressional Democrats just roll over silently for every Republican outrage. Of course, being subjected to outrageous treatment is pretty standard when the Republicans are in the majority, but that hardly keeps our team quiet.

In response to Republican appropriations boss Ralph Regula's most recent outrage (see the previous item) it didn't take long to draw an approprialely outraged response from Rep. Dave Obey (D-Wisc).

"The 205 Congressional Districts represented by House Democrats contain more than 130 American taxpayers." he said. "To tell those people that they will receive no portion of a $1 billion pot of the nation's tax dollars because they are represented by a Member of Congress who supports more money for their schools is not only in my judgment unethical but represents a fundamental corruption of the legislative process."

There's more, and it's worth a look, at TAPPED, the excellent weblog from the fine people at The American Prospect magazine.

This is the kind of message we need from our Democratic Reps - the target is the health, welfare, jobs and education of you and your neighbors and the Republican Congress won't stop till they've hurt us all.