Is everyone doing their part to send all the bits of info we get here to our representatives?

[Maraya1969]

I just sent this one to Nancy Pelosi. I hate to think that most of the stuff we learn here does not get into their heads because no one tells them. I don't think they read DU or at least I don't think we should rely on the belief that they do. I wonder how much of their time is spent hashing out war funding bills and not really learning of the horrors that the rest of us hear about.

Remember it is up to the people.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1010850#1011815

[walldude]

1. Um.. the "people" did their job, now the elected officials

need to do theirs. Don't think for a minute that they don't know everything we know. They know these things and more. Which is why I've had enough of the spineless twits in office who are more worried about their political careers than the people they are supposed to be "serving".

[Maraya1969]

2. But we can't give up either. I think we need to presure them bad.

Obviously a vote is not enough for these people. And the fact that John Conyers has not signed the impeachment bill just pisses me off and I think he would be more inclined to sign it if thousands of people call and email him and tell him to do it.

[man4allcats]

3. Our representatives don't give a good goddamn,

but I will grant the possibility exists; however remotely, that they have not completely sold us out. I say this only in the scientific sense of probability; i.e., maybe in some alternate reality it is true at a 1 in 10e15 chance. Realistically, I think they're a bunch of assholes. Check out Bush's Amazing Achievement.

"In today's restless world, America needs to identify itself with the quest for universal human dignity," ... . What that will take, ... , is both "a cultural revolution and regime change." (my emphasis)

What is left is 'not an eleven- or twelve-step program, but rather a historical choice. Either the United States can follow the lead of the Romans, who chose to keep their empire and so lost their republic. Or "we could, like the British Empire after World War II, keep our democracy by giving up our empire." That choice was neither smooth nor executed heroically, but it was the right one. Now much of the world watches the offspring of that empire, nearly two and a half centuries later—hoping it makes the same choice, and trembling at the prospect that it might not.'

It's a bit lengthy, but it describes well the depths to which this nation has sunk under the "administration" of Junior.

On edit, I still can't believe this son of a bitch hasn't been impeached.

[burrowowl]

4. Yes!

They may not listen, but we bombard them with what they should do!

[badgerpup]

5. There seems to be an incredible disconnect...

...between the denizens (and I'm using that term on purpose) of Congress and the Senate and the rest of the country.
They also don't always know everything that goes on in their own town.

Unless they have staffers who 'babysit' the web for LBN items and can inform them IMMEDIATELY if it looks to be important, they're often out of the loop.
If it doesn't involve them directly, then they may not be involved at all.
Hard to believe, but true.

Still shaking my head that my Senators didn't know about HSD/20. :scared: