Yay! I'm glad it's good! Seriously, I took one look at the combination of the Vox articles and the government documents linked therein, and went, "...wow, the Machiavellian genius of this is that it's going to be REALLY REALLY hard for anyone to object to in the kind of concise and coherent way that seems to be what works for making calls to our elected officials. *rolls up metaphorical sleeves*"
And, aw, thanks! (I made my calls today with that script, by the by! *grabs for shiny badges*) Seriously, the thing about Trump's Presidency is that there's never a shortage of phonecall fodder.
Now I just have to decide if I want to get on the Stop-Sessions train tomorrow (while I find him just as bad a pick as anyone else does, if he's out for the AG's office, that frees him up for the Supreme Court, which is even worse) or do a rather more targeted call to my one Senator who looks from his website-soundbytes like he might be a potential Democratic ally on some things (especially with enough constituents urging him to be *winkwink*), to see if I can get his office to send me a more detailed description of his position than I can tease out of his website and those of the relevant Senate committees. (I'm actually leaning to the latter because it's a serious nerd move and also gives them a clue that I mean business, especially since the luck of the draw keeps sending me to the same staffer in his office.) (I don't know if you've read the Vorkosigan Saga, but now I'm remembering these overlapping charts that some of the characters use for planning out their strategy for negotiating with the members of a political body by looking at how their positions on a set of issues interact, and I WANT SOME NOW.) (Wow, that was long, I think I'm awkwardly brainstorming at you?)
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And, aw, thanks! (I made my calls today with that script, by the by! *grabs for shiny badges*) Seriously, the thing about Trump's Presidency is that there's never a shortage of phonecall fodder.
Now I just have to decide if I want to get on the Stop-Sessions train tomorrow (while I find him just as bad a pick as anyone else does, if he's out for the AG's office, that frees him up for the Supreme Court, which is even worse) or do a rather more targeted call to my one Senator who looks from his website-soundbytes like he might be a potential Democratic ally on some things (especially with enough constituents urging him to be *winkwink*), to see if I can get his office to send me a more detailed description of his position than I can tease out of his website and those of the relevant Senate committees. (I'm actually leaning to the latter because it's a serious nerd move and also gives them a clue that I mean business, especially since the luck of the draw keeps sending me to the same staffer in his office.) (I don't know if you've read the Vorkosigan Saga, but now I'm remembering these overlapping charts that some of the characters use for planning out their strategy for negotiating with the members of a political body by looking at how their positions on a set of issues interact, and I WANT SOME NOW.) (Wow, that was long, I think I'm awkwardly brainstorming at you?)