After Half a Year on the Hill: What I Know For Sure

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After Half a Year on the Hill: What I Know For Sure
Submitted by stacybannerman on Tue, 2007-04-17 15:27. Congress

By Stacy Bannerman


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When the people that got elected on a strong anti-war platform voted to continue the war, they broke a sacred trust with their constituents. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Jim McGovern (D-MA) et. al., clean out your desks and return the keys to your offices. Immediately.

When Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA), a long-time, outspoken opponent of the war, cannot look me in the face as he passes by on his way to vote for the war, I know that he knows that what he’s doing is wrong.

The rationalizations for continuing to fund the war under the patently false guise of “supporting the troops” are just a different page from the same book that was used to build the case for war.

The verbal gymnastics involved in explaining an increasingly deadly and futile occupation are yet another indication that the policy is fundamentally flawed. A moral good requires no justification.

Repeatedly telling me that you never got my written requests for a meeting before relenting and whipping out your hard copy of my letter greatly annoys me and makes you a liar.

A bully in a blue suit is a bully in a blue suit, regardless of the color of the tie.

The majority of politicians, like far too many Americans, are primarily - often exclusively - concerned about their own immediate self-interests. They will act accordingly, even when it causes harm to others or violates their professed values.

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Especially the Left of Insane voter. Is it that the voter is irrelevant? Is that what they are trying to tell us by not telling us anything?

If there's a secret plan to wrest the country from the Right Wing, then I say

NO MORE SECRET PLANS!

We are supposed to be a free and open society, with transparent and responsive government of the people, by the people, for the people, not for secret palns for undisclosed beneficiaries with unreported funders.

We are supposed to be a nation of LAWS, not men--something they left out at Regent College Law School. So let's start using the law to shut down these lawless pirates. Please! It's all we ask.