I’m sorry. I’m just getting a sense that somehow, some way, this nonsense is going to go through.
I wrote to, e-mailed and called my local representatives. I have a Democrat in the House, a Democrat in the Senate, and a Republican who might as well be a Democrat also in the Senate. They all ignored me. None of our elected officials have ever given a dammmm about any of us...and it is on this issue that this fact becomes so readily apparent. I don’t mean to be defeatist, but I know a tiny bit about politics. One way or the other, this thing is going to be passed, if not now, at some time in the future. That is how the system is. And no matter who we put into office, it’s never going to change.
“I don’t mean to be defeatist, but I know a tiny bit about politics. One way or the other, this thing is going to be passed, if not now, at some time in the future. That is how the system is.”
Don’t be defeatist! Without the grassroots energetic opposition to this crappy bill, it would have been passed already. The people *did* make a difference, and the Senators have acknowledged that. Notice also that 10 Democrats peeled off to the ‘no’ side on cloture. Even the Dms arent willing to cross the people on this. Graham getting booed, Chambliss and Alexander and Bennett getting ‘shocked’ by the public reaction in townhalls and at campaign events. Senators noting he flood of communication, 98% of it against the bill. The “bargainers” came in May 20th with a ‘grand compromise” and within 2 weeks, it was in shreds.
We won the battle, now the jury is out on if we will win the war. They will try to pick up the pieces and do it behind closed doors. Our job is to tell them to give it up, and to tell the opponents of this to get vocal about opposition.
And know this: The longer this drags on, the harder it will be for them to pass it... So keep the pressure on. It DOES make a difference!