On top of a major hurricane bearing down on Tampa Bay, Tampa City Council members couldn’t get FREE Coffee at Thursday’s meeting. And they had to gripe about it.

Ralph Reed, Southeast regional chairman of the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign and former executive director of the Christian Coalition, “confirmed on Sunday that he accepted more than $1 million in fees from a lobbyist and a public relations specialist whose work on behalf of American Indian casinos prompted a federal investigation.”

Members of Congress are currently holding hearings and considering rapid action on the recommendations issued by the 9/11 Commission in early August. While the Commission’s report contains beneficial analysis and recommendations, there are also proposals which, if enacted, would have a long-lasting and negative impact on the privacy and freedoms of future generations of Americans.

I guess its George’s idea of healthcare reform, but The United States Census Bureau today reported that in 2003 45,000,000

Retiring Republican congressman says war was “a mistake”, “not justified” and “a dangerous, costly mess.”

The Post says that the “mountaintop removal” business is “booming” again, and the practice of dumping mining debris into streambeds is “explicitly protected” by the federal government. The trick: Bush administration officials “reclassified the debris from objectionable ‘waste’ to legally acceptable ‘fill.'”