  Democracy Fading Away This past week, a horribly awful medicare bill passed the senate. The republicans used some dirty tricks to get it passed though. Somehow, they broke house rules and made the vote stay open for nearly 3 hours. Finally, a few of the republican congressmen changed their votes to the dark side. When it went to the senate, 11 of our "Democratic" senators voted for the ill-fated bill. Did any of the congressmen raise a stink? NO! Did anyone say "wait a minute, you can't do that!"? NO! This is truly the early signs of our democracy fading away. urlLink Read the full story. 
