Do these last-minute telephone assaults to Congress really do any good?

For instance, the thread now about calling your Congress Critter before the 2pm telecom vote...what is really the point? We may be calling their secretaries and aides, but the critters are already on the floor or finishing off their second martini with their favorite industry lobbyist, and they've already cashed their checks from the industry and promised to vote their way. They're not going to change their minds unless we similarly call them and say "Here is a million dollars for your campaign, and oh, we have those recordings of your calls to the hookers." It's not going to happen. I'd be willing to bet most of them made up their minds long, long ago.

They can phone these votes in...at least then they can be sure their votes will be recorded!

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Boehner’s characterization of himself as a “reformer” may surprise even some of his conservative colleagues.

In 1996 Bob Herbert wrote:

One day last summer Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, chairman of the House Republican Conference, decided to play Santa Claus. … In any event, Mr. Boehner took it upon himself to begin handing out money from tobacco lobbyists to certain of his colleagues on the House floor.

Boehner stopped handing out the checks only “after being questioned about the practice by two freshmen who’d heard about the handoff on the House floor”

Rep. Linda Smith (R-WA) said of Boehner’s actions, “<I>f it is not illegal, it should be.”

Looks like Boehner may not be the best person to “build trust” in the House.

Think Progress

...I would think this would trump any phone calls to them before leaving their offices to take part in that vote.

I just don't know...

People have been flooding Pelosi's phone lines, email and snail-mail inboxes with millions of letters, phone calls, emails, faxes, etc. demanding impeachment.

Yet that inhuman traitor still keeps impeachment off the table.

What good are letters when the lobbyists have all that tasty money?

for them to call out for pizza