I just sent my probably pointless fax/email or whatever it is to Senator Warner from the Howard Dean "put on a pot of coffee" call to action. I hated the boilerplate provided. As much as I know no one will ever read my missive, and sending it pretty much only amounts to a vote, I still hate political marketingese. Representative democracy seems such a farce when my representative has pretty much never voted the way I would and there is pretty much nothing I can do about it.
Here's the way I phrased the letter. I write this diary so that it'll be saved someplace.
Who are you for? The Republican Party or the United States? Is you allegiance to the President, or the flag?
This war, started with such ill-defined and shifting objectives and without any strategy for conclusion other than that we'll be "welcomed as liberators" has gone on long enough. I cannot understand why you and your Republican colleagues cannot grasp that it is the will of 70% of the people that this fiasco be over and done with.
Scheduled for debate tonight, the Levin/Reed amendment would begin U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq within 120 days. I ask, for the sake of our great nation and our troops fighting abroad, that you stop defending the president and do your duty and defend the country.
You, Senator, are my duly elected representative. I demand you vote to allow Levin/Reed to come up for a vote. And then I demand you vote for Levin/Reed.
I have lost almost all respect for the GOP as it is plainly apparent they have placed party loyalty above honor of the constitution and duty to the country during the last six years. Your willingness to vote for what is right would go a long way to restore dignity to the party of Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln.
Sincerely,
Bruce T. Moose
Fairfax, VA