Congress Deluged With Telephone and E-Mail Traffic: add yours to the mix
Which, Mr. Obama asked the American people to weigh in on the debt ceiling increase debate, and it looks like they're taking his suggestion under serious consideration:
Congressional offices were deluged with feedback Tuesday after President Obama urged Americans to make their voices heard on the gridlocked debt ceiling debate.
Moments after dueling prime-time speeches by the president and Republican Speaker of the House John A. Boehner on Monday night, several congressional websites were overloaded with traffic. A day later, some were still slow to load, if they did at all.
On Tuesday morning, the Capitol call center said in a memo that House telephone circuits were "near capacity" due to the high volume of incoming calls.
A spokesman for the office of the chief administrative officer said that at the peak, House offices received a combined 40,000 calls in an hour — twice the typical volume. Some callers got a busy signal, but the number was not significant, spokesman Dan Weiser said.
A spokeswoman for Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) said the phones in his Capitol Hill office were "ringing off the hook" at midmorning. Calls included a lot of "scared seniors," the spokeswoman said, adding that Rohrabacher believes the administration has misled seniors into believing their Social Security checks are at risk.
The calls, mostly from outside the congressman's district, favored the president's position, "but not by much," she said.
It's good to see folks actually paying attention to, as well as participating in, this debate, and I would urge all our readers to do so as well. I realize that with plans changing on a daily basis, and ideas being alternately talked up and shot down on a variety of outlets, that the idea of calling the members of their Congressional delegation without a specific proposal to support may seem like so much unproductive complaining.
Which, your humble scribe has some advice and a few suggestions to offer regarding that. Don't ever be hesitant to contact your Senator, Congressman, or even the White House and simply voice your opinion on the issues of the day. Always remember the fundamental American principle of our founders; the right to govern comes from the consent of the governed. And although there are many, in my opinion, arrogant individuals who mistakenly contended during the Obamacare debate that this consent began and ended at the ballot-box alone, it is much closer to the truth to say that political speech is the most protected of first amendment "free-speech" rights; so never shrink from engaging in the time-honored American tradition of telling elected officials just exactly what is on your mind.
Although right now there may seem to be no conservative plan to get behind and demand your delegation vote for, you can certainly let them know what you don't want them to vote for. For instance, it is my considered opinion, as well as Paul Ryan and others smarter'n me, that Senator Reid's plan is rife with the usual Washington smoke and mirrors, and that it also proffers additional, real, defense cuts I believe would harm the effectiveness and readiness of our military. So one course of action could be to express your dissatisfaction with Reid's plan as a whole, or to make clear any of the specific parts you disagree with.
And even though members of your Congressional delegation can't necessarily do anything about it, you might also considering expressing your unhappiness with the Democrat's "Mediscare" tactic of frightening senior citizens via the class-warrior assertion that the GOP is wantonly holding their Social Security checks hostage in the interest of benefiting "Big Oil!", and, "Corporate Jet Owners!". There's also the matter of the administration's constant media drumbeat about the coming US default, at odds completely with what they are telling banking and finance executives via the back channel; a direct and boldfaced lie that you may wish to call out the most ETHICAL! and TRANSPARENT! administration, EVAR! on. In fact, these just might be good topics to voice your displeasure with directly to the White House . I mean, Mr. Obama's the one who asked everyone to contact DC, right?
You may be asking, "why should I bother to contact DC"? The reason is pretty straightforward, and as usual with the Obama administration is all about the optics.
Mr. Obama is attempting to use a technique that Mr. Reagan used effectively several times in the 1980s; having the American people directly pressure their Senators and Congressman. Since part of the narrative construct that is Barack Obama is that, somehow, he is more beloved and an even better communicator then Reagan ever was, there is going to be an urgent need for his solicitation of the public to succeed; to be the biggest and bestest ever(!11!1!eleventy!!). To that end one can expect that all the Fightin' Nutroots, Obamabots, and assorted electronic brownshirts will be out trying to "freep" the results; just as they did with every high-visibility poll and media event during the 2008 campaign. They're going to try to sway the opinion of both Congress and the public at large by making it appear as if all America is behind beloved President Obama...
That's why it's vital that each of us make our preferences, and feelings, known. Do like they do in Illinois; vote early, and often :)
Seriously, America needs her patriots to make their voices heard above the shrill professional left. I urge you to add yours to the chorus of others. Don't let the nutroots reward Obama's "Days of Whine and Poses".
Here's a list of Senate Contact information, of House of Representatives Contact information, and White House Contact information. Please, kind reader, make the call or send and e-mail.
[Cross posted at The Conservatory]
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Just a quick hit here.
I used to work for an answering service....and one of the business types we answered for were propane companies. (I sell propane and propane accessories) One Christmas Eve I got a call from a woman in Greenwich, CT who was all in a panic because she was out of propane for her gas logs in her fireplace. I explained to her that the office was closed and there were no deliveries on Christmas Eve except in extreme emergencies. She told me it WAS an emergency because she was having a Christmas party and 250 people were going to show up at her house and she wasn't able to use her fireplace. *faceplam*
I explained that even under regular circumstances, this company did not consider gas logs an emergency. She got very upset and said that we were ruining her Christmas party. I apologized...she got angry and hung up. Now it occurred to me while I talking to her and envisioning her head exploding because she couldn't use her fireplace, that she had to have seen this day coming. I mean Christmas Eve is the same date every year. And besides that, 250 people don't just show up at your house...you plan for them and invite them. So....wouldn't it have been prudent to make sure you had enough propane for your gas logs BEFORE Christmas Eve?
This is the way I feel about this debate about the "Bush Tax Cuts". Congress KNEW they were set to expire in January 2011. POTUS KNEW they were set to expire in January 2011. But they waited until December 2010 to even begin TALKING about doing something? Really? They didn't see this coming? They couldn't have started this debate say in April? Now they're all like...."it's not perfect but we have to do SOMETHING so we'll do something crappy." People...time management and prioritizing are important skills for McDonald's employees...certainly they are important on Capitol Hill. #justsayin
That’s It? Mozilo, Other Countrywide Execs Fined [UPDATED]
Countrywide Financial Corp. co-founder Angelo Mozilo and two other former executives have agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars to settle civil fraud and insider trading charges with federal regulators, lawyers said in federal court Friday.
Mozilo and the others were to face trial on the charges next week.
Mozilo agreed to repay $45 million in ill-gotten profits and $22.5 million in civil penalties. Former Countrywide President David Sambol will repay $5 million in ill-gotten profits and $520,000 in civil penalties, and former Chief Financial Officer Eric P. Sieracki will pay $130,000 in civil penalties.
Under the agreement, the three men did not admit wrongdoing.
Angelo R. Mozilo has pocketed $410 million in salary, bonuses and stock-option gains since he became executive chairman of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial in 1999, according to the executive compensation company Equilar.
Now, the man at the center of the national mortgage crisis stands to collect an additional $112 million in severance when Bank of America buys the company he helped found.
Equilar's numbers are based on Countrywide's most recent proxy statement, which is a year old. According to the statement, if Countrywide is acquired and Mozilo leaves, he is entitled to a cash severance of $88 million. He would also receive a retirement package worth $24 million.
Equilar said that most of Mozilo's compensation since becoming chairman -- $285 million -- has come from stock options. Mozilo has been criticized for selling pieces of his stake in Countrywide, cashing in tens of millions of dollars in options as the housing market dropped.
Mozilo's net worth is estimated at $600 million.
Remember all that talk about "clawback"? Notsomuch.
Here's the bill that Congress passed to try to protect these assholes:
Congress recently passed Bill H.R. 3808, the Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2010 which says anything a notary signs is true, is usable (like a driver’s license) in any state, and cannot be challenged. The banking industries may use this as an answer to litigation. However, the bill is now open for public comments at the white house.
To read the bill: http://bit.ly/b6ScNC
Anyone wishing to tell the president how they feel, may do so at the following link: http://bit.ly/aGMtOn
Obama vetoed it.
I'm not always in agreement with Rick Moran, but he's got this right.
There are no heroes in this story, only villains. And the only victim will be the taxpayers who may be asked to bail out the players in this mess using tax dollars.
If you think that might meet a little resistance in the new Congress, you are spot on. This is why some analysts are predicting something even worse: Congress simply ignoring property rights, the rule of law, and the sanctity of contracts to resolve the situation:
So here’s what I expect will happen. The lame duck session of Congress will pass a bill that essentially papers over the misdeeds of the banks that originated mortgage securities. Every member of Congress and every senator who has been voted out of office will cast a vote for the bill. And the president will sign it.
Will the public be outraged? Probably. Financial bloggers will scream from the high heavens against another bailout of the banksters. Congress may try to create some cost for banks in exchange for the forgiveness, perhaps requiring more mortgage modifications.
Yes, it would be outrageous — and expedient. In the name of quickly “solving” a problem of the banks own making, exacerbated by hundreds of thousands of homeowners abandoning personal responsibility, we could see Congress deal a blow to contract law and private property rights that would seriously undermine the rule of law in America and set a dangerous precedent for the future.
Rep. Robert Aderholt [R-AL4]hide cosponsors
Cosponsors:
Bruce Braley [D-IA1]
Michael Castle [R-DE]
Artur Davis [D-AL7]
Passed by voice vote in the House. Passed by unanimous consent in the Senate.
Glad you're gone, Castle.
Okay, so this is another thing that Obama's done that I've agreed with, along with, um . . . equalizing penalties for possession of rock and powder cocaine.
Remembering 9-11 & Ground Zero [UPDATED]
Powerful video by Carol of No Sheeples:
WND has a useful post up about some of the connections between Obama's pals and Imam Rauf. In reponse to the news that lots of people think Obama's a Muslim, the White House pushed back, saying that he's a Christian and prays daily. I'm personally of the camp that he's irreligous. He says he forgoes services so as not to inconvenience others, but he's willing to cause major traffic jams in LA to fund raise in Hollywood. His chief religious advisor, Jim Wallis, is in the pay of Soros, despite his claims to the contrary---a sort of "Christian" form of taqqiya, I suppose. Bad for the optics, presumably, is NYC's refusal to let a Greek Orthodox church destroyed on 9-11 rebuild. Cordoba Initiative's @Park51 Chief Twitterer Insultin' Oz Sultan should perhaps seek a job at a carnival booth.
Speaking of quotation marks, Mark Knoller yesterday informed us that a White House spokesperson commenting on the President's vacation to Martha's Vineyard (site of the last sighting of a live Passenger Pigeon, IIRC) said that they ought to be wrapped around any use of the word "vacation," because a President (by which he means this one) is never really on vacation. Later in the day, the AP issued some guidelines about how journalists shouldn't refer to the proposed mosque site as "Ground Zero." At least AP journalists are able to refer to it as a mosque, though I've been challenged on those grounds as well, by sympathizers who feel that they can defuse the issue by characterizing it instead as a cultural center. As Jim Treacher points out, that tends to weaken the argument that this is about religious liberties, of which many leftists are suddenly advocates. The best argument that it is a mosque is probably that that's the way the Cordoba Initiative refers to it. That's not to mention that on three occasions the State Department has paid for Imam Rauf to travel on their dime to fund raise abroad, despite the vaunted Separation of Church and State, which under other circumstances would raise liberal hackles. Apostate Walid Shoebat has a nice rundown on the Imam, and Andrew Cline considers our Lecturer-in-Chief, while Raymond Ibrahim considers the Muslims who regard resistance to the building of the Ground Zero Mosque a Zionist conspiracy. Related would be Issa's findings on Stimulus funds being laundered through unions exempt from disclosure laws used to propagandize for Obamaism and Democrats are being advised on how to spin Obamacare so as not to get their asses bitten again in 2012. Matthew Vadum also finds some "Green Shoots," but they happen to be ACORN.
I do appreciate Issa, but I wish he wouldn't talk about how he's going to use the subpoena power when he gets it. I think most people are focused at the moment on how to stem and reverse the enormous growth of government, first.
Regarding apostates, UCLA has seen fit to terminate the services of people who find themselves opposing AGW orthodoxy. Al Gore, meanwhile, is angry that the chance to ram through pseudoscientific laws regarding emissions, which would enrich him and other such worthies as Franklin Raines, has been lost, for the moment, and is urging people to take to the streets. His second chakra just can't seem to catch a break.
Also worth paying attention to is the strange story out of St. Louis regarding a supposed firebombing at a Russ Carnahan campaign office, in which the suspect was captured and released without being booked on charges. In London, a supposed hate crime against Muslims is also being questioned.
I'm not going to timing question Roger Clemens' indictment for lying to Congress. I'm just going to say that it's nice that Congress takes such an interest in America's deep concern with the Integrity of Professional Sports. Had he perjured himself under oath about something less important, such as sex with an intern, it wouldn't be such a big deal, because everybody does that, I'm told.
UPDATE: It's only a matter of time before I get Olbermann's coveted Worst Person in the World award.
The Devil wears…Bauer?
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A Trifecfta of Trifling Trickstering Twits (Click to enlarge)
Ol' Nick must be lacing 'em up right now, 'cuz there will surely be a lot of ice skating going on in hell tonight. Why? Because on this day I find myself to be in agreement with not only one, but two of the demi-gods of the nutroot left; Howard Dean and Keith Olbermann, and surely that must mean that Hell is freezing over! The Devil you say!?! No, that would be the guy who'll be leading the all skate...
What in Heavens the world would I be  in agreement with Messers Dean and Olbermann over?  Why, Obamacare of course. Sit a spell, while I explain this extraordinary confluence of opinions on what the Senate's course of action should be; after all, the Devil is in the details.
Last night during his Speshul KKKomment segment Keith Olbermann declared that he'd  go to jail before complying with any federal mandate to buy health insurance:
“We must not buy federally-mandated insurance, if this cheesy counterfeit of reform is all we can buy. No single payer, no sale. No public option, no sale. No Medicare buy-in, no sale. I am one of the self-insured, albeit by choice, and I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health-care reform.â€
I am one of the self-insured, albeit by choice. And I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health-care reform. Pass this at your peril, senators. And sign it at yours, Mr. President. I will not buy this insurance. Brand me a law-breaker if you choose. Fine me if you will. Jail me if you must.
Ooooooooh, how edgy and bad-boy of modern day Murrow; I'm sure that'll get him a load of chicks at the Daily KKKos KKKafe. After reading this quote, Cap'n Ed shrewdly observed:
What Olbermann says here is that while he’s self-insured by choice now, he doesn’t think that’s a choice other Americans should be able to make if the federal government offers a public plan along with the mandate. Does that make any sense at all? Would Olbermann dump his self-insurance, presumably taking advantage of HSAs and market-based competition for his health-care dollars, in favor of a Medicare buy-in or a public option? After all, Olbermann seems blessed with good health, and withholding himself from the risk pools could be arguably skewing costs upwards (infinitesimally) for other Americans. And if that seems like a silly argument, well, that’s the argument for insisting on a mandate in the first place.
[emphasis-ed.]
By itself, this far-left flagellant's declaration of opposition to Obamacare alone would be enough to schedule a 4 hour program of "So You Think You Can Ice Dance With Beelzebub", but the addition of MarKKKos and former Presidential candidate, darling of the fightin' nutroots, Howard Dean to the kvetching chorus is enough to buy at least another few episodes. From Dean's Washington Post op-ed:
If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. (...) In Washington, when major bills near final passage, an inside-the-Beltway mentality takes hold. Any bill becomes a victory. Clear thinking is thrown out the window for political calculus. In the heat of battle, decisions are being made that set an irreversible course for how future health reform is done. The result is legislation that has been crafted to get votes, not to reform health care.
Can you hear her singing? (Click to enlarge)
This is all just too good to check. But wait! There's more! Not only has this touched off a low level, but high intensity, war between the White House, "face" work provided by spokes-tool Robert Gibbs, and the "Dean" of the nutroots, but as ACE reports, it now comes complete with it's own "Dean is just bitter over Obama snubbing" meta-narrative. That's not all though, today on "Morning Joe" Josef Goebbles David Axelrod said that those on the left who wanted to kill this bill were "insane"; well at least he's got Dean pegged right. What a bargain! Better than Sham-Wow!
In spite of how sweet all of this schadenfreude tastes, don't forget about all of the tasty side dishes, one being the major labor union's absence at a major Obamacare rally and instead holding an "emergency meeting" to decide their position on the bill; a development AllahP likened to, "the Kiss army turning on Gene Simmons". Another would have to be both Howard Dean and the leader of the Congressional progressives, Lynn Woolsey,  vowing to not only oppose the bill but to also sit on their hands in 2010 and 2012!  I wonder if the legacy media will be as interested in the Democrats civil war as they were with the Republican "purity" tests? Don't. Make. Me. Laugh...
But I can't help it really. Don't these idiots remember recent history?  This is the analogue of the formula that killed the immigration amnesty bill in 2007; just enough of the far-left opposing the bill because "it didn't go far enough!1!1!!eleventy" joined with the Republicans to defeat the President's bill. And all of the Sanders/Olbermann/Dean/MarKKKos drama doesn't even take into account Ben Nelsons declaration this afternoon that the compromise language on Abortion didn't go far enough; a sure signal for other blue dogs, who are looking for guidance, that it will be safe for them to vote against Obamacare too. If Reid compromises further with conservatives in order to get the blue dog votes, he will certainly lose any of the far left that are willing to grit their teeth and vote for a bill with no public option in both the Senate and the house. Add to all of this the President's, and the health care bull's, deflating poll numbers, and with that it seems that the stalemate is set.
I never expected to be relying on guys like these as purely political allies. And I wonder if it's safe to think of them like members of Wellington's army, lying on the unseen far side of rolling terrain, waiting to spring a surprise attack on Obama L'empereur just when he thought he was winning the day. Whatever role they're playing is unimportant really, as long as they're playing on our side; and adding their sway in the effort to see OPERATION WATERLOO through to it's successful conclusion.
So stay strong, remember to do your part to make your voice heard and fan this firestorm. Call your representatives and tell them to vote NO! on this bill; if they're liberal tell them it's due to the lack of public option, if they're conservative tell them you oppose it's lack of free market mechanisms. In either case, tell them that should they vote for this abomination, not only will you not vote for them in the next election, but will actively and tirelessly work to oppose their re-election.
Although we now have a few of the big guns of the far-left joining the call to kill this bill, only you can ensure that OPERATION WATERLOO is a success through your continued pressure on the politicians. Stay strong, and stay vigilant, stay vocal, stay committed, and stay active because they may be trying to sneak a vote through on Christmas Eve!
Is expansion of the house a cure for Congressional ills?
In keeping with Dan's anger and dissatisfaction at the current congressional state of affairs, I would like to present a tantalizing option to address that situation offered by NRO's Jonah Goldberg. Essentially, he argues that the House of Representatives needs to be expanded for both equality in congressional district size as well as being a means to make the Representatives more directly beholden to the citizens from their districts.
In Federalist No. 55, James Madison
defended the proposed Constitution’s apportionment clause despite its widespread unpopularity. The chief complaints, according to Madison, were that such a small Congress would become an “unsafe depository of the public interestsâ€; that the districts would be too large and diverse for any politician to “possess a proper knowledge of the local circumstances of their numerous constituentsâ€; and that such a tiny House would have the net result of attracting elitist types whose aim would be the “permanent elevation of the few on the depression of the many.â€
So how big were these liberty-threatening districts? How tiny was the potentially oligarchic House? The districts had no more than 30,000 people, yielding 65 representatives. Under today’s apportionment system, the “ideal†congressional district is 700,000 people, with some districts reaching nearly 1 million. Montana, with a population of 958,000, has just one representative, but each of Rhode Island’s two districts has about 530,000 people.
There is, of course, an important principle here, and if all of Montana’s residents were black, it would be easier for everyone to see it. Montanans’ votes don’t count as much as Rhode Islanders’ — in fact, a Montanan’s vote only counts for about three-fifths of a Rhode Islander’s. That America’s slave population was counted by the same ratio under the original Constitution is usually cited, rightly, as one of the document’s greatest sins.
[emphasis-ed]
Read the whole thing. Although it might be difficult to enact, or more accurately repeal the law mandating the size of the house, much like term limits, you never know what may catch on; especially with a population fed up with Congress as a whole!
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