Three Rhode Island Blogs Launch "Countdown to Change" to
Monitor the First 100 Hours of the New Congress

In an unprecedented act of web-based collaboration, three of Rhode Island's most popular Blogs, RIFuture.org, Kmareka.com, and Pat-Crowley.org, announce that they will provide collective coverage of the first 100 hours of the new Democratic Congress to provide Rhode Islanders with immediate and comprehensive access to the actions of Rhode Island's four Democratic Congressmen and the new Democratic Congress.  

During the fall campaign, Democratic leaders promised to make substantial changes during the first 100 hours of the 110th Congress in 7 key areas: Lobbying reform and fiscal accountability; Increasing the Minimum Wage; Making college more affordable; Making health care more affordable by passing legislation to negotiate lower prescription drug prices; Allowing stem cell research; Implementing the 9/11 recommendations and Rolling back subsidies to the big oil companies.  

The three Bloggers have agreed to work together to discover if Congress will enact the changes that will put America on a better course for working families, the elderly, college students, and healthcare consumers.

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`Twas the Night before E- Day when all through the nation
Last campaign ads were playing on every station

The volunteers bundled door hangers with care
In hopes that victory soon would be theirs

D-trippers* were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of majority danced in their heads

The DS* was hopeful, the DGA*, too
And in just a few hours, the country turned blue

Because the Republican culture of corruption
Would not get past voters without interruption

Away to the polls they flew in a tizzy
In many precincts, polls workers were dizzy

The electorate wanted new course in Iraq
For us to think twice before we attack

With Northeastern moderate Republicans gone
Democratic takeover, a conclusion forgone

Some screamed, "Security! High taxes! Abortions!"
But voters would not listen to crazy distortions

Republicans would pay for their dirty tricks:
30 seats in the House and in the Senate, six!

In Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Montana
In Iowa, Virginia, Connecticut, and Indiana

Congress had made the voters' skin crawl
"Get out of Washington! Away with you all!"

How did this happen that Congress changed hands?
And Dems won races in many red lands?

Bush tried to mess with Social Security
And foreign affairs approached obscurity

In Terri Schiavo's case, right-to-die
The people saw Uncle Sam gone awry

After botching response to Hurricane Katrina
They surrendered to Dems the right to subpoena

And Delay, Ted Haggard, Bob Ney, Mark Foley
All this from the party that claimed to be holy!

While many YouTube "Macaca" moments
Proved detrimental to several incumbents

And with their policies on immigration
They gave up Latinos for a generation

Likewise, his stem-cell research hard line,
Made Bush watch his popularity decline

Republican members, one by one rejected
While throughout the country, all Dems re-elected

With Reid and Pelosi, a woman Speaker, a first
We're sure to see Republican damage reversed

After the January power transition
They'll take the advice of the 9/11 commission

Corruption and wastefulness are out the door
And handouts for Big Oil companies no more

For seniors, we will see lower drug prices
For students, loan rates reduced a few slices

A minimum wage hike, in the first 100 hours
All possible now that Congress is ours

From the new electeds, we're sure to see progress
"Congratulations to all and to all a good Congress!"

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I am thrilled at our upcoming Democratic majority in both houses of congress. The fact that we are going to see some real Democratic legislation passed is exciting and it makes all of the many, many hours of work and toil totally worth it.

There is something that needs to be addressed immediately, it is a problem that eats away at the very core of our Democracy and American Values. We need some to be able to address the problem of voting machines and unverified voting.

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