Posted on 01/26/2007 11:43:27 PM PST by Valin
The Pledge
By Tarzana Joe
There’s 100 seats
Where the Senate meets
To deliberate our fate
And the derrieres
That sit on those chairs
Should be good and wise and great
They should lead the land
With a steady hand
And be humble at the chore
For they hold the power
At this crucial hour
When we find ourselves at war
Will they lead the way
With a naïveté
That a sane man would condemn
Could it be thus?
They’ll stop bombing us
If we just stop fighting them!?
No, it’s time to rise
And to tell those guys
Not to hem and haw and hedge
For the undersigned
Have hereby combined
And we vow to take the pledge
If you retreat
And invite defeat
We consider that a crime
If you cast your lot
With this sorry blot
Then we won’t give you a dime
Pitfalls are rife
In the public life
And the pits are deep and vast
And the public gents
With no common sense
Could find they’re falling fast.
There’s 100 seats
Where the Senate meets
And they serve at our command
As the derrieres
That sit on those chairs
Final line
Had better understand
Sorry
23,188 people have signed The Pledge thus far. Will you?
If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.
http://thenrscpledge.com/
Hubby and I signed it a couple of days ago. When I signed, there were only slightly over 4000 signatures.
2. Contact your Senators and the Senate Republican leadership
Working on it.
Re: Your E-mail to Senator Coleman
Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to contact me via e-mail.
Because of the volume and range of e-mails I receive, it can take some time to send a response that specifically addresses the subject raised in your message. I do, however, want to let you know immediately
that your message has been received and that a more detailed response will be forthcoming. In the meantime, I hope you will visit my website at
http://coleman.senate.gov, to monitor the work I am doing in the Senate.
Sincerely,
Norm Coleman
United States Senate
________________________________
Translation: Thank you for your input. Rest assured I will give it all the consideration it merits.
bttt
Sending a letter by USnail usually is best, but now many of our legislators have taken to say "please write to me via e-mail"...I suppose it's easier to hit "delete" than to send your letter out in the trash.
many congressional staffers who handle the mail requested this policy after the anthrax attack
Thanks for pointing that out.
This is losing steam.
30,167 01/29/2007 6:41 PM
30,574 01/30/2007 9:33 AM
30,644 01/30/2007 11:19 AM
30,842 01/30/2007 2:28 PM
31,012 1/30/2007 17:47 PM
31,072 1/30/2007 19:14 PM
we are going to have to go outside our comfort zone to get these numbers up.
http://www.thenrscpledge.com/
we were on track to hit 52,000 going into the weekend
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