I propose a sit-in at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's offices.

[Louis Cipher]

East coast and west coast. One hundred people at her D.C. office, one hundred people at her S.F. office. Notify the media. Come up with our grievances, namely an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and demand to speak with Speaker Nancy Pelosi in person and on speaker phone. Present our grievances to Speaker Pelosi and then leave peaceably.

Washington, D.C. Office - 235 Cannon HOB - Washington, DC 20515 - [phone]


Cannon Office Building


District Office - 450 Golden Gate Ave. - 14th Floor - San Francisco, CA 94102 - [phone]


District Office

[Virginia Dare]

1. Why don't you stage one at Virgil Goode's office?

He's an asshat bushbot, what's he doing to end the war?

http://www.house.gov/goode/legislation.shtml

[Louis Cipher]

2. Because that would do no good.

I know that Nancy cares and that she would listen. I'm actually in Eric Cantor's district. So with either Goode or Cantor it makes no difference, they would just call the cops and I'd be hauled off to jail if I occupied their office space and demanded an audience. But maybe I should, you never know until you try.

[Virginia Dare]

3. Give Cantor an earful then..

you're still his constituent. Work like Hell to get him out of there, he's awful. We need more Republicans to jump ship before anything serious can be done politically.

[Louis Cipher]

4. Cantor is not going to do anything to upset the pro-Israel lobby.

Pro-Israel lobby likes having 100,000+ U.S. troops in the region. Though I don't agree with this justification, I can see their stand point. When most everybody in the region hates Israel, it's nice having 100,000+ troops of your closest ally in the area.

[Virginia Dare]

6. Like I said, use your energy to get that asshat out of office...

get a Democrat in there. That's your best bet.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Nancy Pelosi's saying she'll vote against the funding.

She's been saying it since yesterday.

:shrug:

[Rosemary2205]

7. IMHO that's crap.

She has the responsibility and the ability to keep that bill from ever seeing the light of day and to keep sending Bush something he'll veto.

She caved. I don't see this is a massive failure for Iraq, but it does set the stage for the D's to have Bush's footprints all over their faces from now on.


Edit -- sorry that came out wrong -- not what you said is crap but Nancy's dodge of "I'll vote against it" is crap. Sorry.

[Louis Cipher]

8. How soon after defunding the war will that get our troops out though?

I don't know. We need to let them KNOW that we want IMMEDIATE withdrawal, not all this back and forth about funding and timetables, it seems to me to be a stalling tactic.

[stillcool]

9. or a bullshit tactic...

I just can't imagine how anyone could possibly think that the US Corporate Government would in any way shape or form leave Iraq, without being forced to...like the Russians from Afghanistan.

[Virginia Dare]

10. In the end, it's all about the oil....n/t