HOW could the Congressweinies have heard from their constituents that fast..and with those constituents having the whole story???
I was on the fence, waiting for the information to come out...so I could make up my mind...but while I was sitting on that fence, I was watching Jerry Lewis put a Stop the ports deal in a Supplemental Bill to supply our TROOPS...USING them..to get his way!!
HOW did that inform me??? How did Lewis or his constituents know all the facts by then??
All eeeevil and I are complaining about is the "process" that the detractors used to quash the deal...after demanding that Bush give them 45 days to check it out...
How can we trust them to make reasoned decisions in the future about anything, if we can't trust them to keep their word that they will wait for a review before making up their minds??
Politicians are usually behind the populace, to say the least, due to the bureaucracy of the Congressional beast.
This was a rare time when the voice of the people had a hot line to their representatives.
That's how I see it. You see it differently. And so it will remain.
I will concede that the brinkmanship was not pretty, probably not the result that Americans wanted but the ultimate reneging of the deal was.
What to do about Congress? It's an uphill battle, but we can envision ourselves as being like our troops and borrow some of that warrior spirit.
Oh, and re our troops, we will be seeing some OIF and OEF veterans running for office and taking leadership positions in the near future! That should give us hope!