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twitterLetter: Dark side of the Force in Senate
Monday, May 23, 2005 | 9:26 a.m.
Millions of Americans are flocking to see the Star Wars movie, without realizing that the dark side of the Force is active in the U.S. Senate.
It's active in the sense that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and a gang of Republican senators, including Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., are attempting to eliminate the filibuster rule, which has been part of the Senate for 200 years. This would lead to allowing not only judicial nominees, but all legislation, to be approved by a simple majority.
Since Republicans control the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, this action would end democracy in the United States. We would become a dictatorship, with President George W. Bush dictating the laws and policies we must live under.
May the Force be with us.
RICHARD J. MUNDY
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