{Update} Diary edited for length

Our entire country is a battleground state. Despite a rough and sometimes raucous primary season, Democrats are uniting. I think that in short time hurt feelings will be overwhelmed by what this country is actually facing under continued rule by wealthy elitist Republicans, and the real implications that keeping Republicans in government will have on every person in the US.

Today Republicans played a destructive game with the our health, finances, economic futures, the environment and a host of other needs.

John McCain and his Republican colleagues allowed the oil industry to hold the American people hostage at a time when the American people have neither the patience or interest in being played with or lied to or lectured about what great ideas Republicans said they had for this country.

The fate of three important fiscal year 2009 spending bills was left hanging, paralyzed by Republican attempts to sabotage them. Two bills that were scheduled to be voted on ( Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, and Agriculture) and a measure related to the Interior (Environment, Energy, EPA and lots more) were put on hold due to Republican political tactics. McCain is just waiting to become the latest ringleader of botched policies and disreputable and self-interested Republicans who just want theirs. We're not included, although the like to talk as if they somehow knows us and what we need.

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