It Is Not Certain that Americabs can change.

Will they get it, or will there be a revolution this country.

To hell with the rest of the world, We have lost all credibility and can no longer help any one else.

We have no moral authority left, thanks to Bush and Cheney.

We cannot help anyone else until we an help ouselves.

tbe Progressive American:

It sure looks like American voters want change. And here's an example of the kind of thing they want a change from.
In a move that was typically and patently deceitful, Republicans in Congress tried to pass a minimum wage measure last week in which the biggest winners would have been some of the wealthiest people in America.

The G.O.P. has tended to fight minimum wage hikes the way the Hatfields battled the McCoys. But suddenly this summer, Republicans discovered minimum wage legislation that they could truly love. G.O.P. leaders in Congress linked a modest increase in the minimum wage to a whopping decrease in the estate tax. The cut in the estate tax would have cost the government at least $268 billion in revenue over the next decade, and probably a lot more.

In exchange for this estate tax bonanza for the fabulously wealthy, the G.O.P. was willing to approve a $2.10-an-hour increase, stretched over three years, in the miserly $5.15-an-hour minimum wage. It was made clear that any Democrats who dared oppose this raid on the Treasury would be targeted by Republicans as obstructionists blocking a sorely