I actually have little to say about this historic day, except to pass along a little something I ran across today while surfing the Web. Problem is, I was only one of millions of people to see this today, and it is indicative of the way the press -- even the Internet press -- has been trying to downplay the transition of Congress to the Democrats.
This was the list of headlines on Yahoo's home page 5 minutes ago:
• Bush talks about Iraq, Saddam execution
• Democrats take control of Congress
• Nuclear agency head dismissed for lapses
• Priests try to help find secret graves of IRA victims
• France to create 'legal right' to housing
• Calf with two faces born at Virginia farm
• Pennington named AP Comeback Player of Year
Wow. A wholesale transfer of power that gives America its first ever female Speaker of the House rates right between a lame duck president weighing in on a snuff video and a bureaucrat getting shit-canned, and four clicks above a two-faced calf.
Thanks for fulfilling your sacred duty to inform the public, assholes.
