Shut Down The Phones
Dec 10th, 2007 at 5:31 pm by Susie
Come on, you know you want to. From the good folks at Democrats.com:
Once again our Democratic “leaders” are betraying our troops by keeping them in Iraq forever to be murdered or maimed for no reason except the insatiable greed of Bush-Cheney’s oil cronies.
On Tuesday, House Democrats plan to approve $30 billion more for Afghanistan. Then Senate Democrats plan to approve $70 billion to cover Iraq as well. Then House Democrats plan to approve the full $70 billion.
Why are our Democratic “leaders” betraying us? Because they want Bush to sign - not veto - the $522 billion omnibus spending bill to fund the government this year. We have no Democratic “leaders” - we have utterly incompetent negotiators who lose 100% of their battles, no matter how much public support they have.
Our Democrats in Congress clearly do not care about the voters who elect them, whether Democrats or Independents, virtually all of whom want them to end the disastrous occupation of Iraq now. Our Democrats in Congress do not care about the troops fighting in Iraq and their families, who oppose the occupation even more than the rest of us, by 69% to 64%. The only support for the occupation of Iraq comes from hard-core Bush Republican voters who never vote for Democrats.
Who do Democrats in Congress actually care about? The donors who fund them - period. So call your Representatives and Senators with a simple message:
Not one more penny for Iraq - or not one more penny for your campaign.
If you have ever contributed to your Representatives or Senators or to any Democratic committee, be sure to tell them how much you will not give them.Let’s all call Monday and Tuesday (between 9-5 ET) and shut down the Congressional phone system . Call your Representatives directly:
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mcapdir.html
Or call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121
Or call toll-free: 800-828-0498 - 800-614-2803 - 866-340-9281And join the Democratic Donor Strike against the DCCC and DSCC.
funny that you mention this because i JUST got the DCCC’s fundraising letter, including business reply envelope.
so i dashed of a long, bullet pointed letter explaining exactly why i’m not giving them a red cent this year.
fuck ‘em. they’ve fucked us long enough.
This is exactly what all this posturing has been about from the beginning. To the members of this congress, Demorep and Reopcrat, the wars are just annoying sideshow that keep upsetting the real business which is in this budget. The jobs, contracts, projects, loopholes, special favors, etc., that is their sole concern. this is why there are no fillibusters. this is why there are no principled stands taken if you don’t have the votes.
Stopping the war would mean stopping the checks being written and contracts being awarded, and, to them, it ain’t worth it. That thousands of people die and millions have life turned into hell on earth, is a distraction from their real business: money and power to make money. As Obey says, “No use fighting over all this war business, to hell with it. Just pass the budget.”