Don't Mourn, Organize!

Two little ways to take action today, right now.

First of all, this PBS poll is making its way around via email, asking whether you think Sarah Palin is qualified to be the vice president. If you haven't seen it, go here to put in your 2¢ worth.

Second thing regards the proposed bail out. HuffPo had an article about "section 8" of the bail out proposal crafted by the White House. Section 8 reads

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

Read it carefully and think about what it means. Non-reviewable by any court of law or agency (including the U.S. Congress.) It amounts to highway robbery -- the White House can take any amount of taxpayer money to give to their friends and nobody can say anything about it. I find this horrifying. It makes me feel sick to my stomach, literally.

For what it is worth, the folks at ImpeachBush.org are on it and have an easy link for sending a message to your representatives in Congress, stating that you do not support a bail out for the fat cat bankers who will only get richer at the expense of ordinary citizens. They correctly refer to the bail out as "a bankers' coup d'etat." Friends, whether or not the current financial disaster was engineered, it is being manipulated into a major power grab by the neocons, as surely as the 9/11/01 attacks were. Click here to send letters to your representatives.