The Daily Background
| Reid unveils major new legislation at YearlyKos
by Arlen Parsa
Cool stuff. Who would have thought that a major Democratic politican would choose a small conference of bloggers to unveil an important piece of legislation? AP:
Americans won’t be fooled by future intelligence failures if Congress will enact stiffer reporting requirements for the president and the intelligence community, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Saturday.
Reid, in prepared remarks for the YearlyKos Convention of bloggers in Las Vegas, said his proposed legislation is critical as the Bush administration steps up its diplomacy with
Iran.The convention is billed as the first-ever national meeting of the online progressive community.
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“All of us as Americans need to review how the Bush Administration cherry-picked and hyped the case for war with Iraq to sell it to Congress and the American people, so we can make sure it never happens again,” Reid said.
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Responding to Reid’s remarks, the White House did not directly address his proposal.
Not only was it cool…but it was groundbreaking. It is about time politicians take us seriously and begin to understand the sphere of influence bloggers have. I was able to record the entire address if you would like to listen, link to it, embed it, etc. Do check it out….
http://www.evoca.com/everyone_recording.jsp?rid=9283
Andrew.
Awesome, thank you very much Andrew. I’ll post it tomorrow!