Did you get the email from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, signed by Harry Reid, with a link to sign a petition asking the Senate to get real? If not, here’s the gist:

…it’s election season and down-in-the-polls Republicans are turning to their same old playbook – fear and division. Later this week, Bill Frist, in an attempt to appease extreme right wing elements of the Republican Party, has promised that the Senate will vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment and attempt to write discrimination into the Constitution for the first time in 230 years.

…We don’t need another Terri Schiavo moment where we spend valuable time away from the important work…

…Senate Republicans and their big oil friends have forced more than ten votes to drill for oil in ANWR, but not a single vote to lower gas prices…

We need a President and a Congress that doesn’t play divisive politics. At a time of war, Republicans should unite the country and focus on the real issues, not divide and undermine its founding principles.

Go here to sign the petition.