Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi presided over a nearly-perfect party line vote to reject President Bush's arrogance over the Columbian trade deal. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the House voted comfortablyyesterday to delay the pact for now, a blow for Bush, who almost wentso far as to say the world would fall into teeters if the SouthAmerican country didn't get lower tariffs.

Just days after dropping hundreds of Democratic National Committeecontenders, many of them young people, the Barack Obama campaign reinstated these candidates, allowing them to compete in caucuses this Saturday to be pledgeddelegates this August, the Sacramento Bee reports. It's encouraging tohear that these contenders who worked so hard for Obama won't be deniedthe chance to make their case.

New San Mateo County Congresswoman Jackie Speier is already making us proud. The Chronicle reports that she blasted President Bush and the war ofIraq in her first floor speech, drawing applause from Democrats andboos from the GOP caucus. Her contention: thousands more ought not todie due to the folly of one.

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