This was pretty big news and I meant to post on it earlier. I hope you saw it elsewhere.
Last Friday, October 7th, the House of Representatives agreed to a five-minute vote on the Gasoline for America’s Security Act of 2005. Not only is it a horrible, horrible bill that will destroy our environment for the profit of big business, the House leadership held the five-minute vote open for almost 50 minutes until they could convince three representatives, Wayne Gilcrest (R-MD), C.W. Bill Young (R-FL) and Jim Gerlach (R-PA), to change their minds.
This is a blatant disregard and corruption of democracy.
At the close of the vote, those against the unconcealed abuse of power started chanting “Shame, shame, shame.†It’s pretty chilling to watch.
More info at ThinkProgress.