It's been a great day for me. We got a decent amount of rain in Southern West Virginia today, which helped blunt the drought we are experiencing (as a deer hunter, I was worried about it's impact on the fall mast crop - which can greatly impact deer, turkey, and squirrel populations).
More importantly, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid once again demonstrated their inability to impose the most radical portions of the Democrats' socialist agenda on my nation.
Earlier today, we had a happy ending in the Senate on the cloture vote killing the Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2007.
In the other chamber, we also had a big win today as former talk radio host-turned Congressman Mike Pence offered an amendment to the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill to block the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from re-imposing the Fairness Doctrine that was ended during the Reagan Administration.
Without talk radio and the Internet, most Americans would have had no idea we were debating the immigration bill until it had passed.
I was pleasantly surprised to look up the House Roll Call on the Pence Amendment and find that both Rahall AND Mollohan voted to protect the first amendment. (It goes without saying that Shelley Moore-Capito would get this one right)
Between Byrd and Rockefeller voting to kill "shamnesty" and the WV House delegation voting to block the Fairness Doctrine, I almost feel like my state's Congressmen truly represented me - for once. (Shelley usually does)
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