Spare Change You Can't Count On

OK, we get it. While we were gone, apparently, there was a giant recount and the Republicans won.

• Extraordinary rendition is still OK with the Justice Department...


• and so the White House cover-up of U.S. torture policies will continue.
  


• The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate is still throwing Americans out of work....


• ... and still spending more while adding to the jobless lines...
  
  
• ... and refusing to expand health care to the unemployed, elderly, and poor people...
  


• ... while the White House will continue protecting the jobs and perks of the bankers, brokers, and stockholders who wrecked the economy...


• State and municipal governments are still being told to suck wind...
  


• ... while the Administration agrees, in effect, with Republican proposals "to tax teachers, fire fighters, and Joe the Plumber to protect the wealth of the banks' shareholders and to pay high salaries to their top executives."


• God has endorsed Norm Coleman as U.S. Senator from Minnesota.

We need to go on another cruise.