Called Stabenow: They are getting a BOATLOAD of negative calls.

[Tyler Durden]

I called as soon as the office opened for phones at 9:00 Eastern, and the phone had to ring 25 times before someone picked it up.

The staffer already sounded harried: She stated they were already JAMMED with calls expressing a negative opinion of Stabenow's vote on S.3930.

I'm contacting the Center for Constitutional Rights: I don't know if they take donations or not, and I can't exactly afford one, but I'm going to do it anyway!

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. With any luck

this thing will blow up in their faces.

[C_U_L8R]

2. it won't be luck

it will be us here pushing it back into their rethuglican faces

try it.... it's fun and you're doing good at the same time.
Plus when it does blow up in their faces, the mess is splendid.
How cool is that?

[Tyler Durden]

3. Told them I knew it was an election year...

...but that this one was the one item she shouldn't have caved on. Told them about my status as a veteran, and how I carried a Geneva Convention card that now essentially would be worthless.

Young lady on the line sounded pretty depressed.

[shance]

4. I met Debbie Stabenow at a reception the day after the Bankruptcy bill

that she had voted in FAVOR of, passed.

A couple of us were talking with her and my friend asked her how she could have voted for that bill and she stammered for a minute and then said....

"It's really not that bad".

I think we sat there without a reply. That is about as close to Marie Antoinette and the cake comment as it gets. It's NOT that bad Mrs. Stabenow? Perhaps not for you.

With that said, Debbie Stabenow is a nice person. However, many people in Washington are "nice". And, we can all be 'nice' when we want something and/or when we are being showered with applause and/or accolades. I'm sure many people would say Trent Lott is a "nice" guy, other than his racist, hateful prejudices and yearning for the plantation years.

Not in any way to compare apples and oranges, or Debbie Stabenow to Trent Lott, other than to say, nice does not say anything about maturity or character, or certainly compassion. However, it seems we have placed our legislators in Congress on pedestals, perhaps because they make themselves so unavailable to us and their privilege makes them appear stately, when in fact most in Congress seem to be in positions they have not earned nor have they done what they are supposed to do which is represent the citizens.

Many of our leaders are quite charismatic, charming and funny. But when push comes to shove, they don't really care about their constituents as much as they do being a member of the cool kids club. Moreover, like the majority on the hill, many if not most individuals like Debbie Stabenow don't seem to have encountered many life situations that would have instilled and created the character necessary to be a good, empathetic, caring leader.

On a whole other note, I think a defining of Roosevelt(Franklin that is)and his amazing leadership was because of his polio, his disability. Because he had become handicapped if you will, he understood what it was like to have that affliction, to be dependent on others in a way few of us really understand. He understood what it was like to be different, and it seems out of that illness, came compassion and understanding.

And back to having the leadership necessary to maintain a good country:

We need to take our elections back first, from the private companies that now hold them hostage. We as citizens need to count the votes. This will take a huge fight. But we must.

When we do, we will begin to vote in local, state and Federal leaders that actually do their job, and don't parasitically take from the system and their constituents and leave us vulnerable to Administrations like this.

[Tyler Durden]

5. Other than being a placeholder with "D" after her name...

...she has become a severe disappointment.

[Strawman]

6. All these politically motivated compromises of principle

Pretty soon the offices people like Stabenow are trying to hold onto at all costs aren't even going to mean anything. It's going to be like being a member of the Supreme Soviet or People's Congress.

[Armstead]

7. Did she vote yes?

[Tyler Durden]

8. Yes, I am sorry and embarrassed to say.

[Armstead]

9. Not an embarassment to you

But she should be taking many many showers today to wash off the dirt from yesterday.

[lapfog_1]

10. There is no water hot enough, and no soap strong enough

to cleanse one of the stain of Fascism.

[Pithy Cherub]

11. That vote will be with her forever and there

is nothing on Earth that can erase the stench and shame from being so morally and politically craven.