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House to Voters: Please Stop Emailing Us
So much for taxpayer feedback on the House's failure to pass the $700 billion bailout plan. If you email your Rep. right now, here's the automated raspberry you'll likely get in return:
Subject: House of Representatives is limiting constituent email due to volume
Please be advised that the House of Representatives is currently imposing limits on inbound communications from constituents because volumes are so high that Congressional websites and web forms are becoming non-responsive. A limit on the number of emails that can be sent via the "Write Your Rep" web form system (the software that a majority of Representatives use to power their web forms) is being imposed during peak email traffic hours. Clients may want to adapt their campaign timing or switch contact methods (to phone) to avoid delivery disruptions due to these limits. The throttling is dynamic, so unfortunately there is no simple guidance we can offer that will ensure delivery. The throttling is likely to remain in place until the end of the current legislative session.
The government can no longer be trusted to ever tell the truth. Now they're at it again. The Bush administration is telling Congress and the president himself is on television telling the American people: Trust us. Trust us with a check on the national treasury for $700 billion, and that's just for starters. We don't need no stinking oversight. Trust Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ? a Wall Street critter whose last civilian paycheck was for $38 million for a year's work ? to make sure the money is wisely and conservatively spent. Trust a man of Wall Street to bail us all out of the financial disaster visited upon us by Wall Street. Trust the people who've run the national debt from $3 trillion to well over $10 trillion in just under eight years to ensure that no one takes unfair advantage of a Wall Street rescue plan that was slapped together in another back room in a long weekend of camaraderie among the robber barons. Trust us, they say, and pass our rescue bill. No need to read it. No need for anything like due diligence. Pass our bill or we'll blame Congress, or at least the Democratic majority in Congress, when the wheels fall off the wagon.
The government can no longer be trusted to ever tell the truth. Now they're at it again. The Bush administration is telling Congress and the president himself is on television telling the American people: Trust us. Trust us with a check on the national treasury for $700 billion, and that's just for starters. We don't need no stinking oversight. Trust Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ? a Wall Street critter whose last civilian paycheck was for $38 million for a year's work ? to make sure the money is wisely and conservatively spent. Trust a man of Wall Street to bail us all out of the financial disaster visited upon us by Wall Street. Trust the people who've run the national debt from $3 trillion to well over $10 trillion in just under eight years to ensure that no one takes unfair advantage of a Wall Street rescue plan that was slapped together in another back room in a long weekend of camaraderie among the robber barons. Trust us, they say, and pass our rescue bill. No need to read it. No need for anything like due diligence. Pass our bill or we'll blame Congress, or at least the Democratic majority in Congress, when the wheels fall off the wagon.
I really like the idea of employing dynamic throttling on my Representative. Perhaps with the right amount of "choke", we might get some response.
Let me see if I understand this correctly.
The people we put in office to voice our concerns for us are being inundated with our concerns and due to the normal lack of apathy of the American public, we are forced to curtail your input until after it doesnt make a difference again..
That about sum it up?
Snag their telephone numbers from the 'contact' page, and use those.
Also, all the House members will be campaigning around their districts, so it wouldn't hurt to show up at one of their campaign stops and be a burr under their saddle-blanket.
I think it's fair to know that offices are getting overwhelmed with e-mails. Campaigns make it easy to fire off a response... someone else has done the thinking and the writing, we just have to push the "send" button. For all our involvement, we could be answering a poll on our representative's website. If we want e-mails to be received with attention we should make sure they're being sent with care.
The government can no longer be trusted to ever tell the truth. Now they're at it again. The Bush administration is telling Congress and the president himself is on television telling the American people: Trust us. Trust us with a check on the national treasury for $700 billion, and that's just for starters. We don't need no stinking oversight. Trust Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a Wall Street critter whose last civilian paycheck was for $38 million for a year's work to make sure the money is wisely and conservatively spent. Trust a man of Wall Street to bail us all out of the financial disaster visited upon us by Wall Street. Trust the people who've run the national debt from $3 trillion to well over $10 trillion in just under eight years to ensure that no one takes unfair advantage of a Wall Street rescue plan that was slapped together in another back room in a long weekend of camaraderie among the robber barons. Trust us, they say, and pass our rescue bill. No need to read it. No need for anything like due diligence. Pass our bill or we'll blame Congress, or at least the Democratic majority in Congress, when the wheels fall off the wagon.
Trust us, they say, and pass our rescue bill. No need to read it. No need for anything like due diligence. Pass our bill or we'll blame Congress, or at least the Democratic majority in Congress, when the wheels fall off the wagon.
Uh-huh..., and where IS our Loyal Opposition on this question?
Oddly (or not so oddly), standing on exactly the same square as the Repubs. Pushing for the bailout. And it's no wonder if you go to OpenSecrets.org and look at how much money the banking, finance & investment industry has thrown the way of the Dems.
Commercial banks favor Repubs, by 7%.
Securities & Investments has deeper pockets for the Dems, by 10%
Dems get 56% of the money coming from Venture Capital.
Hedge Fund folks favor the Dems with 66% of their $millions.
Private Equity & Investment go Dem with 57% of theirs.
And Mortgage Bankers & Brokers are putting 53% of their millions in the pockets of Democrats.
So who could wonder that the Democratic 'leadership' in Congress is desperately trying to get Bush's bill passed, to keep their Sugar-Daddy bankers from losing a dime or two?