[hiredhand]

I just called my Congressman's office and spoke to one of his very nice assistants. I spoke to her last week and had time to actually chat a little then. This time was DIFFERENT! In the few minutes I had her on the phone this time, she apologized THREE times and put me on hold in order to pick up other calls.

She told me that they're barely able to keep up with the call volume and that the overwhelming majority of callers are telling them

NO BAILOUT!

I'm going to guess that the scene is the same at every Representative's office right now. The U.S. House of Representatives website has been slow/unresponsive all morning as well.

If they don't shoot this BAD IDEA down, they will KNOW that they have violated the will of the American people, and things will NOT fare well with them afterwards!

[joanie-f]

Thanks for the news about the busy phone lines. We need to hope that the voters are expressing justifiable outrage, and that congress hasn’t become too arrogant to listen. I’m counting on the former, but not confident of the latter.

~ joanie