Guys - Send a "BACKBONE NOTE" to Congress! Here:

[calimary]

Link:

http://pol.moveon.org/spine/instructions.html?id=10403-1235793-3LKfeX&t=1

Here is some contact info, INCLUDING FAX NUMBERS, to start with:

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA 8th), Speaker of the House
Web Site: www.house.gov/pelosi
E-mail: [e-mail]

Washington Office:
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0508
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Main District Office:
450 Golden Gate Ave., Burton Fed. Bldg.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]


Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Majority Leader
Web Site: reid.senate.gov
E-mail: Contact Via 'Web Form.'

Washington Office:
528 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-2803
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Main District Office:
333 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Ste. 8016
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

District Offices of
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)
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Las Vegas
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Address:
333 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Ste. 8016
Las Vegas, NV 89101

Reno
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Address:
400 South Virginia St., Ste. 902
Reno, NV 89501

Carson City
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Address:
600 East Williams St., #302
Carson City, NV 89701



Calling helps, also. TOLL FREE Capitol Hill switchboard numbers:

1 (800) 828 - 0498

1 (800) 459 - 1887

1 (800) 614 - 2803

1 (866) 340 - 9291

1 (866) 338 - 1015

1 (866) 220 - 0044

1 (877) 851 - 6437


There's ANOTHER ONE, courtesy the AFL/CIO: (This one asks you to input your zip code and then it transfers you automatically to your Congressperson):

1 (800) 718 - 1008

ONE ADDITIONAL ONE, from United For Peace and Justice:

1 (888) 851 - 1879

HUGE phone traffic today! That's why I put every last one of 'em in here. Perhaps there's a better shot that way.

ALSO, CHECK www.congress.org for FAX NUMBER/SNAIL MAIL addresses for EVERYBODY/ANYBODY on Capitol Hill.

ONE MORE THING: CALL MSNBC and give your support to Keith Olbermann!

1 (201) 583 - 5000

[grasswire]

1. and remember ...

....a paper letter is worth a hundred e-mails, the political experts say. So if you have time to print out your letter and put it in an envelope, you'll amplify your comment a hundred-fold!

[wryter2000]

3. Unfortunately

Thom Hartman says that all Congressional snail mail has to be inspected for anthrax and so it takes weeks for a paper letter to get to the Congresscritter's office.

I think I'm going to snail mail my Senators at their local offices. My Congresswoman, Barbara Lee, isn't going to vote for this one. She didn't vote for the last one because she didn't think it was strong enough.

In fact, I think I'll just print out Keith O's rant and write, "What he said" in the margin.

[badgerpup]

4. Emailed KO's Special Comment to BOTH my senators last night...

...attributed the source and said he speaks for the majority of us.
:argh:
Think the Dems are going to see a LOT of that particular doc today...:grr:

[wryter2000]

7. They just got it on paper from me

The fax went right through to Pelosi, Reid, and Feinstein (one of my Senators). I had to fax it to Boxer's local fax.

Signed,
"What he said. A voter in Oakland."

[calimary]

11. That's true, but their FAX machines are immediate.

And I found that when I couldn't get through on Pelosi's Washington fax machine, her district office in San Francisco was easily accessible. So I faxed it there.

[Lars39]

2. K&R

Thank you, calimary!

[calimary]

14. Cheers back atcha, Lars39!

Now that we've officially been sold out, I say we give them NO REST about this. Dems OR republi-CONS. ALL of 'em deserve NO rest. I hope they get hounded ALL SUMMER LONG about this. I hope their sleep is fitful, their cuticles are gnawed, their pockets, purses, and desk drawers are full of Rolaids, and they dread EVERY step they take outside their Capitol Hill offices or into their home districts - for fear they'll be confronted by more angry constituents who told them CLEARLY, LAST NOVEMBER, to bring this war to an END, and who, like us, feel absolutely BETRAYED. Whining and mewling that you "don't have the votes" isn't good enough anymore, nor is it acceptable. Because while they're dithering and trying to cajole, more American troops are DYING - for a LIE, over in that ghastly hell-hole. It's Just. Not. Good. Enough. Not anymore.

WE need to fight - AND WIN - this, HERE, so THEY don't have to keep fighting, and keep losing, over there.

They perpetuate the war? Then they should expect war from US.

They secure us no peace? Then THEY get no peace, either.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Called both my Senators. It does no good to call by 100% 'Bush-can-do-no-wrong' GOP

Congressman.

[calimary]

12. Don't be so sure. They're standing on VERY thin ice, AND THEY KNOW IT.

Sounds like your congressperson is one of those valiantly clinging to the deck of the Titanic, AND to a serious state of denial about reality.

One by one they'll fall away. Like little crumbles off the side of the mountain. All we need is an armload of pick-axes to keep chipping away.

Never underestimate the "psy-ops" wars, and how YOU can play them with great satisfaction. These GOPers are hanging on by threads, just hoping that somehow, the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny will suddenly pop in on the scene and wave a magic wand and all of a sudden, Iraq will become like greater Orlando complete with theme parks. It's NOT going to happen, and even they, in the staunch wrong-winger districts, are going to see support ebb. Because Iraq is NOT going to get better. It's pretty much doomed.

Besides, even if they appear, ON THE SURFACE, to be standing strong, BET on the fact that their knees are shaky as jello. They're putting up a good front, alright, but they're seeing the storm raging around them. It can't be helped, and it can't be avoided. Which is why THEY, ESPECIALLY, need to be reminded that the odds are stacked rather severely against them. I saw another thread around here somewhere just now that referred to a CBS/New York Times poll that now shows only 24 percent think our country's on the correct track. That's the lowest yet. The thread said CNN was talking about it (watch the media pile-on accellerate). Fewer and fewer of us are still fooled - day by day by day.

You work on 'em psycologically. You call 'em and tell 'em what they don't want to hear and are trying desperately to avoid and ignore. Invariably you won't be the only one calling with the same complaints - about the war and bush and the whole gonzo mess and the rest of it. You add to the demoralization factor. You slowly but surely "psy-ops" 'em - demoralizing them, discouraging them, destabilizing them, chipping away bit by bit at their confidence and arrogance and comfort-level. They see how the edge of the cliff is eroding - closer and closer to their property line. AND they see how increasingly powerless they are to change that. It will happen little by little, like glacial melt. But soon it'll be an internationally-acclaimed, Oscar-winning Al Gore film. Because the momentum IS NOT with them - not an overnight phenomenon, either.

So what happens, as you keep calling (hopefully you do, regardless of the reception), the Congressperson may not see the day-to-day, hour-to-hour action, but the staffers do. They'll be taking these adverse calls, they'll be the ones hounded constantly, and they do have to keep a log of this, even if it's only little hash marks on a piece of ledger paper. And watch how those hash marks start adding up, and how lopsided it's gonna be by the end of the day. Lopsided toward OUR view. And those staffers all meet in the Congressional cafeteria and the bars and burger joints after hours, the hallways of the Capitol building, the parking lots, the Metro stations, etc. AND THEY ALL TALK. They ALL talk. One example that I personally experienced was when I called in - it was to some Dem's office, and referred snarkily to "contradicta rice," a "term of endearment" I made up for our hapless idiot Secretary of State. The staffer noted that with a snicker. A few days later, on another occasion, I called again. I may have gotten the same staffer. I rereferenced "contradicta rice." The staffer started laughing. "contradicta! That's GREAT! Somebody else said that, too. Somebody called in and said that last week." I said "I think that was me." He responded: "Really? God, that's GREAT! contradicta! That's SO funny! That's ALL OVER THE HILL!" Evidently, it WAS, because it made an impression on this kid, and he went and spread it around to his friends and colleagues in other offices.

These staffers have to keep track of issues and other matters that constituents and other voters call in to comment about. Because that's how the Congresspeople themselves know what's of interest to the folks at home. It's like when radio stations have request lines and keep track of how many times people called in for the new Beyonce hit or whatever. What follows then is that Beyonce goes into high rotation and you hear it at least once every day part, because of how many people are clammoring for it. They keep track. They have to. The folks in the district offices have to, also. They have to submit their records of how many calls came in about what - every day, or maybe at the end of every week (I asked about that once).

So, then, what if they keep getting larger and larger numbers of calls about THIS? They're gonna HAVE to turn in that report. Meantime they're gonna be talking about it. "SHIT, I can't even go take a leak... all these assholes calling in to stop the damned war..." Or "I can't believe how many calls I took today on ONE subject..." or "hey, Jim, you getting a lot of calls on this, too? They're blowing us away over here." That type of thing. And when those staffers talk, their supervisors hear about it. And their supervisors have to go report to Congressperson So-n-so. And guess what THEY are gonna be talking about, then? And if they're a bunch of republi-CONS trying to keep the leaks plugged in the levee, they're realizing quite painfully and unnervingly that they're running out of fingers and toes. And the leaks keep increasing. And the holes keep expanding.

And remember this, too: Back in January, the New York Times or some such ran this story about this crash pad that California Democratic Congressman George Miller owned in Georgetown. He had three roommates renting rooms from him, where they hung their hats while they were working in DC. And suddenly, with the power shift on Capitol Hill, this little Democratic townhouse became a power-packed hotbed of big names and big hitters - because his roommates were Senators Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin, and Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Bill Delahunt. The photos showed them hanging around the kitchen and sitting around the living room together - over a large quantity of Chinese take-out. It was like a scene out of a college dorm, except with gray hair. Well, you have to keep in mind that there's a bunch of this going on - and you KNOW they don't come home and sit there in silence. They're talking. Comparing notes. Hashing out details. Exchanging views about what kind of day or week they had. AND THIS STUFF COMES UP. AGAIN AND AGAIN. They can't help themselves. It just does.

So what I suspect you have now is a lot of staffers and supervisors, if indeed not also the Congresspeople themselves, who are now drowning (or they SHOULD be, because we should ALL be calling THEM, TOO) in this surging flood of anti-war, anti-bush, GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW voter/constituent calls. They'll pay the most attention to actual constituents, which is why YOU MUST CALL ANYWAY, AND MAKE YOUR OPINION HEARD. And ALL of them are gonna be gulping Maalox like it's going out of style. In fact, I suspect that somebody will be charged with going out and stocking up on Advil, Tums, Pepto-Bismol, and maybe also a few bottles of Jack Daniels hidden in drawers for after hours - when they're SORELY gonna need a stiff drink.

This is what we want. The more destabilized and demoralized they become, the sooner they'll cave. Works on ALL of 'em. Ours AND the enemy, both. Psy-ops. Make it your friend.

And that's one way to influence people behind enemy lines.

[here_is_to_hope]

6. Done and I will keep doing it! n/t

[calimary]

13. Me, too!

Some of the Dems may be wanting to give up and cave, but I REFUSE to.

[Luminous Animal]

8. Done! (K&R)

[calimary]

15. Thanks. I'm going to hang onto mine and make copies so I can KEEP

faxing 'em.

As long as they're going in the wrong direction, they have to be nagged. Like toddlers who can't be left alone because they'll push the glassware off the table and then try to crawl over it while deciding that those pretty glass shards might taste good.

[mod mom]

9. done. thanks for posting.

[merh]

10. I say we all fax them a link to the youtube link for KO's

segment last night where he called them out with the message, "Olberman says it better than I can, he speaks for me and thousands of others."