4 Million Puerto Ricans Lost their Representation in Congress Today

In case you didn’t have a chance to read the news today, in addition to

more animals dying left and right (literally), “one of the first acts of the new Republican-controlled House was to take away the floor voting rights of six delegates representing areas such as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa, stripping away the representation of not only everyone in DC but millions of U.S. citizens across the globe, who serve in the military and are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Now if that isn’t scary, maybe this should be:

What was the media was focusing on today?
Obama wearing flip flops while on vacay and Megamillions losers.

Groan!

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