I don't know about you, but I resent being directed to a fucking comment line when I call the

[lonestarnot]

Capital. What, they haven't stolen enough of our money to afford fucking staff to take calls?!!!! :grr: WTF is that! A comment line. My ass a comment line! Answer the fucking phone you pricks! GIVE A SLOB A JOB YOU BASTARDS!

[msongs]

1. theyre taking yer paycheck and giving it churches. priorities priorities lol nt

[lonestarnot]

2. Is that where it's going? Not Halliburton?

[zbdent]

5. what's left after Halliburton has had its fill ...

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. The people answering the phones in Congressional offices are usually underpaid and overworked

If they are paid at all. If it isn't an unpaid intern, it is likely a low-paid staff assistant.

[conscious evolution]

4. Unpaid interns?

Then they should be able to afford more of them then.

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. There is only so much space in the offices, especially in the House

And although it isn't too hard to find qualified interns during the summer, it isn't as easy during the rest of the school year. DC isn't a cheap town live in, and many college students afford the rent, food and transportation to live away from home to work a job that doesn't pay anything.

[conscious evolution]

10. They do not have to be on

capitol hill to answer phones these days.
Remember call forwarding? They could have people answering phones in their own homes pretty much anywhere in the country.
There is no excuse for them to not take their constituents calls.

[John Q. Citizen]

33. That's not true. Only an idiot politician is going to put rookies up there for the public to talk to

I know. I stop by my US Senators constituent offices and I know the people by their first names,

These are very smart, very capable people.

Not unpaid interns.

[arcadian]

6. It's "capitol" not "capital"

You use "capital" when referring to the city in which the "capitol" stands. The word "capitol" refers to the actual building in which a legislature meets. :hi:

[lonestarnot]

11. And when your in a fucking hurry it could be the shit house!

:hi:

[arcadian]

13. I know

I hate grammar nazis, so I'm a total hypocrite. That one is just one of my pet peeves.

[lonestarnot]

14. I thank you though!

:P

[pnorman]

47. Thanks! I never got tht straight until now!

n/t

pnorman

[CK_John]

7. The phone system knows if your are calling "your congress person" else off to the comment round

file for you. Besides it's summer recess time in DC.

[lonestarnot]

15. Speaker for her actions in dissuading Judicial Committee for contempt charges v. Red Rover.

:puke: So how will she know, she won't even listen to that pile of crap comment line. She just wiped her ass on me!

[Warpy]

9. "GIVE A SLOB A JOB, YOU BASTARDS!"

Now if that isn't a rallying cry for this election, what is?

[lonestarnot]

12. LOL, could be, if they bothered to answer the phone.

[Breeze54]

16. Use this tool to call your Senators instead!

There's still time for more calls to be made.

Vote @ 11 AM tomorrow!

Make a FREE CALL to YOUR Senators and tell them
to vote 'NO!" on FISA Retroactive Immunity!
http://tools.advomatic.com/7/fisa

:hi:

[Ilsa]

21. Thanks. Done and emailed to friends. nt

[Breeze54]

32. YOU ROCK!!

:yourock:

[Canuckistanian]

17. Have some understanding

NEVER has there been such a crisis in American political life. A criminal President, Vice-President and Hell, the ENTIRE executive branch.

So, people look to their ELECTED federal representatives, their Congressmen and Senators. You know, the only ones they can RESPOND to.

And respond they do. I'd wager that the average number of calls to representatives have gone up, say 800% in the last 7 years.

And the systems that worked well in the past are woefully inadequate NOW with all the THOUSANDS of pissed-off constituents in each district or state.

I'd HATE to be a staff worker for a Senator today.

[lonestarnot]

18. No sympathy for bushitlers Bile and Lumpy McSame or their staff!

:puke:

[Canuckistanian]

20. You're in Grampy McSame's state?

I always imagined you a Texan from your name.

[lonestarnot]

22. Yes

My name isn't tex, it lone star not, means you are a star too if you wanna be! :hug:

[Canuckistanian]

26. Oh, OK, thanks

Alway good to know the reason for people's usernames.

Mine was taken from Pat Buchanan's statement about "Soviet Canuckistan" in the days after 9/11.

:toast: :hi:

[lonestarnot]

39. Cool. I can't stand that racist Buchanan, but I must know.

What was the statement?
:toast: :beer: :hi:

[Canuckistanian]

43. Here's the source

Canadian Press October 31, 2002
"It's the blame America first crowd," Buchanan said Thursday during his
two-hour show Buchanan and Press on the cable network MSNBC. "The Canadians
. . . have been defended by the United States, they pay nothing for defence.
"That place is a complete haven for international terrorists," he told
co-host Bill Press. "Even their own retired security guys say it's a
complete haven. We . . . need lectures from some people, not from Soviet
Canuckistan."

http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/rad-green/2002-November/005193.html

[lonestarnot]

45. For shit sakes. He's such a fucking wizard.

:sarcasm:

[Xenotime]

46. Understanding?!? WTF?!?

They had better understand that we are going to vote their asses out of office in Nov.

[Ilsa]

19. Me too, Pelosi's aide transferred me there as soon as I said

something about the Judiciary Committe.

[lonestarnot]

23. Just bullshit isn't it! She needs her ass kicked over there in CA in the election.

Missy Botox with a comment line. Screw her.

[durtee librul]

28. In WI, we have town hall

mtgs held around the state and Feingold usually hits most of them. If he isn't there, I have left questions with aides and have always gotten a response within the week.

So I ask, what does he do differnt than the rest of them - - simple answer....HIS DAMN JOB is what.

Yay Russ.

Ms Wuss (Pelosi) and Mr. Wuss (Reid) can go fornicate with each other in Floruba and Mexifornia for all I care....wait, we don't need more of them from the shallow end of the gene pool. Sorry. Weak moment there.

[lonestarnot]

36. So K

You're safe with me. LOL I've had about all I'm going to take.

[Telly Savalas]

24. And what precisely do you expect the person taking the call to do?

"Oh, sir. It sounds like you have a problem with the way the country is being run. Let me transfer your call to you a Senator do you can discuss it with her."

Get real.

If the government is going to pay people to do something, make it something productive like building windfarms, not listen to people gripe.

[lonestarnot]

27. LOL What do you think fucking representative government is about?

hmmmmm?

[Telly Savalas]

30. Seriously. What the fuck do you expect the person taking the call to do?

[lonestarnot]

34. Explain her position, talk to me answer my questions and take a fucking message!

[Telly Savalas]

44. So each Congressperson and Senator is supposed to have a chat-line

of several dozen if not several hundred people trained to know that elected official's position is on every single issue such that they can field questions on all of them?

We have 535 people representing over 300,000,000 folks. Obviously, some filters need to be put into the communication lines or they will be overloaded. Your voice has the same weight in our government whether you deliver your message to you elected official via voice mail, email, or if there's some chat-line with a live person to make it seem more like you're being listened to. God fucking forbid we put substance over symbolism and use the most efficient mechanisms possible.

[lonestarnot]

42. I'm sorry I was mean to you.

Want to forgive me? I have been wound rather tightly the last month or so.

[Telly Savalas]

25. And what precisely do you expect the person taking the call to do?

"Oh, sir. It sounds like you have a problem with the way the country is being run. Let me transfer your call to you a Senator do you can discuss it with her."

Get real.

If the government is going to pay people to do something, make it something productive like building windfarms, not listen to people gripe.

[lonestarnot]

29. fixed hmmmmf.

[Telly Savalas]

31. You need a valium, asshole.

[lonestarnot]

35. LOL

[truedelphi]

37. After thirty years of dealing with Senators

Here's my Gold Star list of those who rate:

Kennedy A +

Kerry A +

Boxer A +

Boer had staff put me through the comments line about two weeks ago - but I take it that was a busy day for them. usually she has a staffer talk to you.

[lonestarnot]

40. And where's Dennis on your list?

Must have been an unintentional ommission. :think:

[truedelphi]

48. Uh, he's not in the Senate but see below for the House Reps I recommend

[EFerrari]

38. Instead of making donations, maybe we should buy walkie talkies

and send Pelosi's office the second one.

lol

[lonestarnot]

41. LOL, She'd pawn it.

[truedelphi]

49. Here are my House of Reps recommendations

Maxine Waters A + (CA)
Lynn Woolsey A + (CA)

Barbara Lee A + (CA)
Dennis Kucinich A + (OH)
Conyers A + (MICH)