Letter from Senator Webb April 7, 2008

Alas, can you imagine? The same reply sent by Webb responding to an entirely different subject! How convenient.

I copied Sen. Webb on a letter I sent to Cong. Moran (in another post) about FISA, and here is some of what he said again:

Thank you for your recent electronic mail message to my office in Washington. I am pleased that because of the Internet, more than 100,000 Virginians will send their ideas directly to me this year.

Please be assured that your views are very helpful to me and my staff. As the Senate addresses crucial economic, domestic and foreign policy issues facing our nation, we will be sure to keep your comments and ideas in mind.

Blah, blah, blah, so what's new, Jim? Is your staff so lazy it can't even craft templates for different subjects? Lest I forget: You've only been in office 16 months. I guess that's not enough time to draft templates.

Letter from Senator Warner March 21, 2008

Alas, except for a few benign updates, Sen. Warner's reply to me about my letter decrying Halliburton's sewage showers our soldiers take in Iraq, is essentially nothing more than what Sen. Warner has been sending for approximately 18 months about all things Iraq which is a summary of his lukewarm opinions about our involvement there. He totally ignored the subject of my letter (in another post):
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In January 2007, the President proposed a surge of approximately 35,000 troops....the Iraqi government has not done its part.

He writes it's time "to put teeth into these words" quoting U.S. Amb. Ryan Crocker: "There is 'no blank check' for American involvement in Iraq." (Oh, yeah?)

Then he lists his tenth trip to Iraq last August! Is this the same letter he was sending out then?

Although Senator Warner is dissatisfied with the long deployments our soldiers endure, "I believe we must remain mindful of the realities currently facing our military" so the heck with shortened leaves! The soldiers must stay so we'll be ready! Ready for what? For Buzh to invade Iran?

Sen. Webb's automated responses are all identical no matter what the subject. At least Warner sends his replies to my mailbox although, sadly, they are the same. Perhaps because he is retiring, his office perceives no need to respond individually.
I can't help but wonder: Are there any live bodies on Capitol Hill who actually represent the people rather than themselves? Pray tell, who?

Hillary Writes Again

Twice in a week!

The label on the envelope of the second letter says: The Time is Now! (The label on the first envelope from Hillary said: We're going all the way.)

Both, essentially the same letter: Please, please, please send money! "Because of your invaluable support" (I've never sent her a dime) "we embarked on an historic journey to renew America's promise and we are determined to win...Patricia, with so much on the line, will you commit...with a gift of $50? (The first letter asked for $100 or $50. In fundraising school, they teach you to solicit the most on the first ask, and then lower the amounts. Hillary's solicitors follow the norm.)

"...With so much at stake, I know that I can count on you." Then, like the first letter, it asks for bloggers, house party hosts, telephone canvassers, letter writers, voter registrars, or "anything" you can do.

The first letter ended: "When I'm in the White House, I promise to be there for you every day." Please. The lack of sincerity is revolting and continually damages Hillary's image which this finish reinforces.

RE: I'm sure this went over real well

Right, but why waste their money when they can waste their supporters' money?


They personally have the $ to pay it.



Right, but she had close to $8 million in debt. It's not she can pay that overnight!


Well, has she paid the Iowa creditor she owed in Jan.? Did you read Novak?


HAHAHA, and this morning it was reveald that he raised $40 million last month! Shrill's campaign won't be releasing their figures until the end of the month. What does that tell you? There is great speculation that she may actually be operating in the red. Tomorrow, the tax returns are released. Dump day. But something tells me every reporter will be looking it over line by line.




I think his fuse is just a tad longer than McCain's. The heads last nt mentioned this meeting and his "meltdown".

Jason: The O "college tour" on Chris last nt was nothing more than a LOVEFEST, and it played on and on on Dan Abrams' show, too. You talk about "free advertising"! Baby, O done REALLLLLLLLL good last night! I got sick and tired of hearing the same tape played over and over and over and over and.....



SF Chronicle: B. Clinton Had “Meltdown” in Private Meeting With Superdelegates

Attendees tell the paper that at a meeting with about 15 supers before his speech in front of California state convention last weekend he went on a tirade about Richardson endorsing Obama, the media and entire nomination process.

“Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that,” a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.

On superdelegate: “It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended.”

Earlier Letter Sent to Senators Warner + Webb

Dear Senator Warner (Webb),

If Halliburton is not poisoning our soldiers in Iraq with its sewage showers, it is electrocuting them.

No wonder Cheney wants the war to continue: He profits!

I hope you will join your colleague, Rep. Henry Waxman, in investigating the terrible deaths and illnesses our soldiers suffer while taking showers in Iraq. What words are there to adequately describe these tragedies and this incompetence? We're not talking about "only" illnesses, but deaths of our soldiers sent to a foreign country to fight for what?

Sincerely,

Patricia



Panel probes troops' electrocution deaths in Iraq Story Highlights

12 U.S. troops have been electrocuted in Iraq; one died in January while showering

Rep. Henry Waxman wants info from Pentagon on electric systems in Iraq

Pentagon says full investigation ordered into the electrocution deaths

U.S. company that maintains barracks being sued by family of soldier who died

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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A U.S. House committee chairman has begun an investigation into the electrocutions of at least 12 service members in Iraq, including that of a Pittsburgh soldier killed in January by a jolt of electricity while showering.



U.S. troops in Iraq face an unexpected threat: electrocution by faulty wiring.

Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said Wednesday he has asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to hand over documents relating to the management of electrical systems at facilities in Iraq.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, 24, died January 2 of cardiac arrest after being electrocuted while showering at his barracks in Baghdad

Letter Sent Apr. 1 to Congressman Moran

(With copies to Senators Warner and Webb)

Dear Congressman Moran,

I am happy to read that the U.S. House of Representatives has withstood pressure from the White House and the Senate to buckle under and allow immunity for the telephone companies as part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Now that it recognizes its strong-arm tactics are indeed diluted, the White House, according to today's Wall Street Journal, will once again apply pressure on the House to accept its goal to excuse the phone companies from violating the law.

I am proud of the House and I certainly hope you and your colleagues (and perhaps even some Senate members!) will continue to be stalwart and ignore Bush and his cronies who represent Big Business, rather than the citizens of the United States, and who never quaver in their attempts to weaken our civil rights laws.

Sincerely,
Patriciadc

Hillary's Plea: Mother, Can You Spare a Dime?

You know things are really bad when she sends ME a letter! Me, who has not contributed to her campaign but to many campaigns albeit in small doses.

Perhaps she pulled my name from female boomers knowing her numbers are better there than anywhere. Perhaps, from all donors to the Democratic party, but, alas, my pal Jason did not receive a letter.

Fare thee well, dear Hillary. You did it to yourself when you abandoned us, your base, for your wimpy, spineless "leadership" on Iraq for which I have not forgiven you nor have many others, and you have served to make your case worse by attacks on a young, energetic, handsome, visionary which you are not. Oh, you could have, would have been! Alas, it is over. You are ashes on the stage, exiting right.