i never thought i'd see it

but both sides of the political blogisphere are fairly united against the bankruptcy bill currently before congress. tunesmith has even set up a new blog to coordinate the effort. as tunesmith explains:

The opposition against the bankruptcy bill crosses party lines, among the grassroots.

The support for the bankruptcy bill crosses party lines among Congress.

This is clearly an example where the interests of Congress are divorced from the interests of the public. This bill is about politicians and lobbyists, not the American public.

So we should call them - a lot. Let your congresscritters know that you do not support the bill, that it does nothing for American citizens, and that if the politicians let the credit card companies dictate their vote, we will hold them responsible.

There's appetite for a blogosphere-wide effort against the bankruptcy bill. I will be including a list of conservative and liberal weblogs that are signed on to this effort. All you need to do is leave a comment, preferably a trackback (now enabled), or drop an email, and endorse the effort on your own weblog.

so go to this post and sign up to support the effort.

not only do you get to find common cause with bloggers of all stripes, but you also get to harass politicians by repeatedly reminding them just how sucky you think the bill is. it may not work, but at least we can go down swinging.

so, i'm in. are you?

UPDATE: crap! typo in the first line. i just corrected it on this site. but the error happened to be in the line that was sent with the trackback ping to the politology post so the error is immortalized there.