The Congress? Nothing.
I wonder if we shouldn't have been more PR-wise about this. Instead of politicians, maybe we should have implored celebrities to intervene. Write to everyone, lay out the facts and ask them to go to Pinellas Park with a bottle of water and get arrested.
I wrote to Jeb, maybe I should have written to Barbara and Jenna and the other young ones. To Sally Struthers who does advertisements for charities, talking about starving children. To Madonna who's Catholic. To Pat Boone. To Annette Funicello (who gets a complete pass, being disabled herself!) To actors who are Catholic, actors who have Down's Syndrome, singers who hawk inspirational music at 3am on cable channels. And the legislators too, I wonder if we should have asked them individually, would you just go there with water and let that be your vote, made visible?
We who know what's right, we just don't think we have to package it prettily and market it cleverly.
Don't second guess yourself now. If the beautiful people had wanted to speak out, they would have. Remember, they're beautiful and thanks to their plastic surgeons are perfect, whereas Terri, in their minds, isn't.