Boxer rebellion

I'll have more to say about this later today, but wanted to express my initial response to yesterday's protest of the Ohio electors.

Barbara Boxer, no matter how you look at it, is a true heroine for just standing up with Stephanie Tubbs Jones and for the disenfranchised. It's impossible to know what kinds of negotiations went on behind the scenes among the democrats. There were a lot of stirring speeched by democrats, and a lot of gloating, snarling and threatening from repugs. There were some memorable moments:

"This is a travesty," said Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a member of the Republican leadership, who forced a formal roll call vote in the Senate to spotlight lawmakers' positions. Of Democrats, he said, "They're still not over the 2000 election, let alone the 2004 election."

Okay. That was mature. And as for the ethically-challenged Tom DeLay?

Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader, drew applause on the House floor when he denounced the Democrats' move as a "quadrennial crying wolf," while other House Republicans ridiculed stories of voter fraud in Ohio as "Hollywood inspired."

I'll come back later with inspiring tales of democrats speaking truth, but for now I'd like to say that the republicans displayed nothing but scorn for democracy and for their fellow lawmakers. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.