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“Legislation has been started”
Correction!!! Legislation has been SUGGESTED.

Be sure to follow it through the process and see if it actually makes it anywhere. In government, the power of suggestion lulls people into complacency. We tend to go on with our lives, thinking something is getting done, when in reality it don’t.

I agree with your second paragraph completely.

We need to keep on this and do all we can to help it become a reality.

Here is where it was suggested, Feb 6, 2008:

I do not believe a city that has turned its back on our country's finest deserves $2 million worth of pork-barrel projects. So, I will introduce legislation to revoke the funding.

On Feb. 6^th, 2008 it was introduced in the Senate, on the same day it was suggested:

February 6th, 2008 - Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia), Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Oklahoma), John Cornyn (R-Texas), James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), and David Vitter (R-Louisiana) introduced the Semper Fi Act of 2008.

This is where it stand as far as I can find now (Dated Feb 13^th):

Senator DeMint introduced the Semper Fi Act to rescind over $2 million in hidden earmarks for Berkeley, California in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill, and transfer the funds to the Marine Corps. Until yesterday,
(Hot link separation) Senate Democrat leaders used parliamentary maneuvers to block consideration of the bill. Last night, Republicans asked to pass the Semper Fi Act by unanimous consent after no Republican member opposed its passage, but Democrats have placed an anonymous hold on the bill.

So it has been introduced and in the works, not just suggested.

It does take some research to discover that something is being done. You are right, we need to watch out for complacency and also not to put out information that makes it seem nothing has been done until this time, when indeed the process was started already as I mentioned in my post to which you replied.

By reading the links, it can be seen that a campinion bill is going to be started in the House by Congressman John Campbell (R-California)

Anonymous hold? WTF?

As long as there is a hold on the bill, anonomyous or otherwise, it virtually means no progress will be forthcoming.

So we are still dealing with virtual talking points. There is no way the Rats will allow the bill to proceed in Pelouseys and Feinsteins home state. A blocked bill is nothing more than the power of suggestion, my initial premise.