People not online during the weekend may have missed this (IMO) important diary at dailykos. It starts with a good recap of how the lamestream media have been dealing with the latest Abramoff document dump -- and surprise, it's not all bad.
But what's at the end is the important part: A plea to get your critters to sign onto H.R.5550 (The Human Dignity Act). This new document dump should be a shot in the arm for the bill.
What this does -- the short story: it shuts down the Abramoff/DeLay/Ney Marianas Islands slavery ring.
The long story:
1) It brings the focus back to the Culture of Corruption.
2) It brings a massive case of
forced immigration into the spotlight of the immigration debate.
3) It shows the Democrats as doing something both for the American worker and for human rights.
A trifecta. It's the most brilliant move Democrats could do right now. Frankly I'm surprised this doesn't get front page stumping on all the major progressive blogs once a week. I know it's hard to keep up with everything, but this one is important, and I'm a bit miffed that it took me two weeks to stumble across this bill. I've already written my Rep and gotten a number of my friends to do so.
We need to blow this one up. Anyway, off to the dkos diary, but please do give me a kick here so this thread doesn't die here at DU.
Initially it was left to TPMmuckraker to do the heaving lifting. That is starting to change as more people besides Paul Kiel have a chance to sift through the material.
Over at the Washington Post they have been treating the document dump like the candy store it is. They started by quickly pointing out that Bob Ney LIED to the Committee. And this evening they released a long story on how Jack, Ralph, Grover and the gang used their nonprofits and charities to launder money, break US laws and build a GOP culture of Corruption.
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One great way to help drive that focus is to support H.R. 5550, the Human Dignity Act.
The Bill would extend US labor, immigration and custom laws to the rogue US Territory: the Commonwealth of North Mariana Islands (CNMI). This is the legislation Abramoff, DeLay and the GOP have blocked for more than a decade. Justice is long overdue.
So far there ONLY 24 Members of Congress joining with George Miller as Co-Sponsors of this Bill, they are:
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/25/1275/80239
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