The ruling class rides to the rescue. A pox on all of them. If this passes it will do for the tea party what the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act did for the GOP.
Thanks for making me look it up. I hope you are right!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas-Nebraska_Act:
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands that would help settlement in them, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries and to settle there. The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to create opportunities for a Mideastern Transcontinental Railroad. It became problematic when popular sovereignty was written into the proposal. The act was designed by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. The act established that settlers could vote to decide whether to allow slavery, in the name of popular sovereignty or rule of the people. Douglas hoped that would ease relations between the North and the South, because the South could expand slavery to new territories but the North still had the right to abolish slavery in its states. Instead, opponents denounced the law as a concession to the slave power of the South. The new Republican Party, which was created in opposition to the act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant force throughout the North.
Reid is a load and Pelosi is beYOND pathetic. What are those two schlubs even doing in politics? They have done NOTHING positive, ever! San Fran was once a mighty City and Vegas was Vegas. Drastic sadness in both now, from what I’ve heard. No leadership exists in either place. When will folks wake-up?