FISA. No matter how you pronounce it.

Dammit, this FISA voting within our Congress has become something of a pain in American's asses.  

We have a simple, obvious issue that we would like to be straight forward, unabasahedly, non-questionably understood by the people of America.  We are asking the people that Americans voted for to ratify that.  YOU call it FEESA, I call it FYESA.  Who cares?  

America calls it important. I'm tired of being walked on by goddamned Republics that I didn't vote for, you didn't vote for and America would like to kick in the ass for being stupid and not doing what we asked them to do.

The Democrats?  Well, I'll give you a list of those idiots that didn't get the fuckin' memo below.

Here is your homework today.  Call any, all, some, many, a few or one or two of these idiots and ask their representatives that answer the phone, what the fuck are they thinking?

I called the office of Heath Shuler.  I think the young lady was a bit miffed that I was differing with Rep. Shuler's so-very-informed-thought process.  She actually told me that the situation was in "FLUX."  

Yes, I don' think she knows what the word flux means. Flux is a situation that moves both ways and Representative Shuler is not moving in the way that North Carolina and the rest of America would like him to move in.  He, therefore is not fluxing like we would find to be acceptable as a Democrat and a voice against the very questionable administration that he is agreeing with, even though the only reason he has his JOB, is because Americans IN NORTH CAROLINA disagreeed with that administration in 2006.

She then asked me where I was from.  I told her I was from Greensboro, Goddamned North Carolina, and it didn't matter if I was from Ensenada, Mexico. Not exactly in his district. I'm a human and I care about this, Representative Shuler was voted in to care about this, and I expect him to do what is right.  
If he does not do what I consider is right, I expect him to understand that I will work my ass off to make sure he is never elected again to any office in MY state.

mcjoan put this list out earlier today.  Call these less than heroic American Representatives and let them know what you think.

BE POLITE!  Dammit, LOL!  Outrage only goes so far.  
If you have to, write down the message you want to impart to them, just so you don't get flustered.

Call.  YOU WILL FEEL GOOD!

Rep. Leonard L. Boswell, D-Iowa -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, D-Ala. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Allen Boyd, D-Fla. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Tim Holden, D-Pa. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Christopher Carney, D-Pa. -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Rep. Zack Space, D-Ohio -- Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]

Don't forget to say thank you.

;-)

•  Mojo for America.

  It's time to tell Bushie, NO.

  by funluvn1 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 12:45:40 PM PDT

•  Just say No to FLUX

  and no to Warrant-less wiretaps

  by JML9999 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 12:48:50 PM PDT

  •  Say no to Bush.

    That is so easy to understand, Representative Shuler.

    by funluvn1 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 12:50:11 PM PDT

•  I said I had a few calls in me

  and I will call Barrow.  I do business in his town.  But foggeddaboutit.  I do believe the fix is in and the Senate version will pass.  The dems will point to the contempt vote for their token to the Constitution.

  But FISA is asking that the Congress fight for Judicial power.  And you can bet that with all the Telco $$$ that that will lose.  Sorry to be so down and out about it.

  I know that a FISA judge quit in protest a while back.  Can he speak out on behalf of these protections?

  by dogheaven on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 12:57:14 PM PDT

  •  I'm not sayin' I disagree

    though I want to with all my fiber, but I'm saying don't let these SOB's NOT hear from us.

    by funluvn1 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:03:31 PM PDT

    •  I got so disgusted by the Senate

      it actually made me sick.  I am still feeling it.  I know intellectually, that this is what these creeps count on.  They count on us to give up.  I will try harder.  Again, thank you for a call to action.

      Maybe the huge turnouts for Dems in the primaries will give these Blue dogs a clue and they might be more open to listen.

      I'll go check Barrow's contributors before I call.

      by dogheaven on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:10:37 PM PDT

•  I called...

  my Senator Annoyme(Inouye) again yesterday to express my disgust with his FISA votes. The staffer actually sounded surprised? WTF? I told her that she might suggest the good Senator(I was trying to be polite) reread the 4th amendment again since he obviously had forgotten what it said when he voted against it. I also told her to remind him that he still has another chance to get his vote right when the bill returns from conference. I don't think she had any idea what I was talking about!

  by reflectionsv37 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:03:29 PM PDT

  •  She didn't understand.

    But I bet she looked good in the front office mirror.

    It is amazing how it works out.  Mr. Shuler's operative that answered the phone was easily less than 30.

    by funluvn1 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:07:05 PM PDT

    •  This one didn't sound...

      a day over 18!! I think the word conference threw her. It got real quiet after that and all she said was okay? I can imagine her going back to a higher level staffer and saying something along the lines of "That guy said the Senator should have a conference and then vote again. What does that mean?"

      by reflectionsv37 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:10:20 PM PDT

  •  And I will give...

    some of these a call today. Geez! What a list!!

    by reflectionsv37 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:07:13 PM PDT

•  Republican are lying about FISA

  This regime would have the same  power until August, they want to  give the Telecom immunity,not only for right they  may have violated but  laws about illegal wiretap,go to yahoo and search "CALDEA" and  "Lawful Intercept Gateway "

  by supremeliberal on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:10:02 PM PDT

  •  They most certainly are. Call the numbers and

    tell them you don't agree with their assessment of the situation.

    They don't agree with their assessment either.  They are cowards that are unable to find another job.

    ;-)

    by funluvn1 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:18:45 PM PDT

  •  Explantion of what Bush is trying to do

    http://www.eff.org/...

    by supremeliberal on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:27:38 PM PDT

•  With great pleasure BARON HILL IN-09 not listed!

  I cannot express how pleased I am to see Baron Hill of IN-09 NOT in this list. I am hoping it is just possible he has finally gotten a clue that it is time to quit enabling the destruction of the Constitution on his watch.

  Hey, I know. I will fax him anyway, just to be sure!

  As for Sen. Bayh (hack, spit), this was on my last Fax to him a couple days ago:

  Sen. Bayh appears to no longer believe in the fourth amendment, or any of that other silly stuff, the rest of the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. Who needs it when you have a Reich Ministry of Homeland Security and an emerging secret police, instead of courts, laws, warrants, all the things Western Democratic traditions have been built on since the Magna Carta, culminating in the American Revolution. Sen. Bayh is a disgrace to the state of Indiana.

  by HeartlandLiberal on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 01:55:15 PM PDT

•  Isn't it amazing that Obamamanics don't care

  about America?  

  They only show up to do what is obvious.

  Jeebus, these are not Democrats.

  by funluvn1 on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 02:40:35 PM PDT