I just have to vent my frustration somewhere. Sorry this is a not a long analytical piece with lots of links, but I think it is worth putting out there as a clear example of corporate DC beltway Democrats' attitude towards us.
Here it is, Sunday morning in NH and the call comes in ... " this is so and so from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, may I speak with ....."
So she goes on to let me know the call may be recorded (I hope so, and I hope the DCCC is reading this diary and going back to the call!). She starts to plead with me about how we "have to hang on to the house" with this pathetic voice, as if we are about to lose the house to those fast gaining Republicans or something. I couldn’t believe the tone she took on this, so weak and pleading. This should have been my first clue.
So I went on to clarify which organization was calling, DCCC or DNC. She says DCCC. I asked "who is in charge" and she said "Nancy Pelosi." So I began to express some frustration about how Nancy and Harry are not standing up to Bush, that they back down at the threat of vetoes and give him what he wants.
She listens, commiserates a bit with me about "we have to work on that". Then I go on to talk about subpoena power, and how congress is not enforcing this, that the White House is basically in contempt of congress and Nancy and Harry are not standing up to the White House.
Also during this conversation I tell this person that I like Nancy, admire her, love that she is a grandmother and strong lady, but I want her to stand up to Bush. I remind this person that when we took the house, Nancy stated the most important thing we gained was subpoena power.
I concluded my passionate, although completely clean language communication with the statement "Tell Nancy she is not getting another cent of my money until she enforces subpoenas." At that point the lady on the phone starts to say something appeasing again but then hangs up on me in mid-sentence. For Chrissakes! That was rude!
Now this was just plain stupid. First, she must realize she is talking to someone who knows what is going on, and is keeping track of current political events. Therefore, this might be a democrat who would be involved, perhaps helpful, or perhaps piss-off-able, perhaps someone who might write on a political blog, such as dailykos, which is read by hundreds of thousands of other concerned, knowledgeable, involved, democrats. Someone who might write a diary to relay this story, so hundreds of thousands of possible readers can click and read about how the DCCC treats us.
The conclusion I reach: If you know too much about what is going on in DC, and you care, you know too much for the DCCC. They only want to talk to people who they can pry a few bucks out of, so they all can get themselves re-elected, so they can continue to live in DC and get absolutely nothing the f*ck accomplished, but hey, all us peons should be happy because every once in a while they throw us a bone and make like the might actually do something. Who believes them anymore? I read about "house asking for investigation into tape destruction" and I want to puke. Show me some action. DO SOMETHING for God’s sake!
I’m so unspeakably tired of this same old tired routine that I have started to become suspicious that the DC Dems are in cahoots with the DC Republicans in some sort of a "good cop – bad cop" routine, where they play us one off the other, trying to keep shifting the blame, but all the while, they get to stay in DC and PLAY at being congress critters, eat a lot of meals off the tax payer and enjoy excellent health care while the rest of us struggle to "put food on our families."
God Damn it.