Minority/Majority

By David Sirota

This article appeared in the October 17, 2005 edition of The Nation.

September 29, 2005

Permanent Minority. Three Democratic senators-- Patrick Leahy, Russell Feingold and Herb Kohl--voted for archconservative Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in the Senate Judiciary Committee, despite Roberts's extreme views on privacy, civil rights and women's rights.

Toward the Majority. With nine in ten Americans telling pollsters that oil companies are engaging in price-gouging, Senator Byron Dorgan is crafting legislation to create a windfall-profits tax on the oil industry.

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About David Sirota

David Sirota is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His newest book is The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington (Crown). more...
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