Don't even bother DiFi

[wtmusic]

Dear Mr. Wtmusic,

Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to giving the President the authority to take control of the National Guard. I appreciate hearing from you and welcome the opportunity to respond.

The House version of the Fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization bill (H.R. 5122) contained a provision that would have
permitted the President to order a state's Guard units to perform active and reserve duty without the blah of the blah blah, if serious blah or blah blah, blah, blah blah in the blah blah. blah blah blah blah blah blah in the blah blah of the blah, the blah blah the blah blah to give the blah the blah to blah blah blah blah blah blah blah in the event that a blah blah, blah blah, blah, or serious public health emergency blah in blah blah to the blah that blah blah are blah to blah blah blah. The blah would be blah to blah blah of the blah to use this blah, and would be blah to do so every blah blah the order is blah. The Defense Authorization bill was signed into law by the President on October 17, 2006.

Once again, thank you for writing to me. I hope you will continue to keep me informed on issues of importance to you. Should you have any additional questions or comments, please feel free to call my Washington, D.C. office at [phone].

Best regards.

Sincerely yours,

Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator

:wtf:

[annabanana]

1. in other words:

Dear Mr. Wtmusic,

Who cares what you think?

Once again, thank you for writing to me. I hope you will continue to keep me informed on issues of importance to you. Should you have any additional questions or comments, please feel free to call my Washington, D.C. office at [phone].

Best regards.

Sincerely yours,

Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator

[wtmusic]

2. I like that!

Would have saved me some time. I might have even sent her a check, for being so refreshingly honest.

[MzNov]

3. Yes. I've been there. She's just too busy being a DINO.

:dem:

[msongs]

4. most congresspersons respond in similar ways. contact a local office

here in california and you will have more success.

gee, if you got 10,000 emails a week would you write a personal response to each one?

msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

PS - BTW the way I seriously doubt she said blah blah blah even once in her letter to you. evidently you got a response but you did not like it.

[wtmusic]

5. Damn straight I didn't like it

I got something worse than a response -- a non-response. A total unwillingness to state her position on the issue, and why she feels that way.

Did you think I was upset because she didn't send chocolates?

[davidinalameda]

6. send her a gift certificate to Supercuts

she needs a new do more than she needs chocolate

[wtmusic]

9. I'm not sure, but I think that's a crime

in any case, she'll never need an appointment!

[jwirr]

10. Many congress offices screen out letters from out of state and

send letters like that but if it is you own senator doing it there should be a follow up letter with more specifics. Here in Minnesota Coleman does that to all of us. It is a computer response and kind of says, "Screw you." On the other hand I have had wonderfully responsive letters from Sen. Dayton and Rep. Oberstar.

[Sapphocrat]

12. Actually, I did get a personal reply once...

...from -- you guessed it -- Barbara Boxer. I expect the utter anguish I expressed over her first vote I didn't agree with prompted a staffer to pass my email along to her. It took a few days, but she actually wrote me (addressing my points one by one, so this was no canned response) explaining why she did it.

(I understood why anyway, but I still had to protest: She had to vote for an emergency appropriations bill for the troops -- but she and other sensible Dems should have demanded a rewrite before voting, since tacked onto the bill was the completely unrelated, but far-reaching, fascist REAL ID Act.)

I'm still upset she voted for it without a standoff, but an actual response went a long way toward me cutting her a lot of slack on that one.

[dubykc]

7. It looks to me like there was a lot more information in the reponse...

than you are willing to share.
Diane Feinstein may not be quite the Democrat many of us would like her to be but she is a far cry better than ANY Rethug with which she shares the Senate Chamber.

[wtmusic]

8. She sent a little primer on HR 5122

insulting, really, to assume people don't know what the hell they're writing about in the first place.

Tells me nothing.

[Sapphocrat]

11. I stopped trying...

...the day I got her canned response to my plea for her NOT to vote to give the Boy King a blank check to invade Iraq. In between the blah blah blah's, it actually stated, quite clearly, that the vast majority of missives from her constituents indicated overwhelming opposition, and if she paid any mind to that little detail, she'd have to vote against it. But there were SOME things we poor little pissants didn't know, that SHE was privy to, so WE would just have to TRUST HER -- and then she voted to murder 655,000 Iraqis and a few thousand American G.I.'s.

After her yea vote on the Patriot Act and countless other why-the-hell-does-she-even-have-a-D-after-her-name? incidents, that was the last straw. I wrote her one last time, telling her that she'd more than spent ALL her political capital with me, and even if she managed to somehow singlehandedly legalize same-sex marriage across the country tomorrow morning, she would never have my support again.

She hasn't surprised me or won me back yet.

God bless Barbara Boxer.