EEEPS!!!! DNC MEETING!!! I have meant to make a post about it, like, since it happened. (So. Much. Awesome. And seriously, we have like the deepest bench ever, just judging by all the people who ran.)
I am currently in the "overload" mode of "so many reasons to call different reps, so few calling-people skill-points" and any thoughts from this comm that could help me organize myself would be epic. (I'm sort of leaning to calling my Senators about the need for an independent special counsel on the Russia connection, what with the latest info on Sessions' apparent chats with the Russian ambassador that he didn't mention in his confirmation hearing, and then, oh heavens, there's state/local stuff to wrangle.)
Last but not least, I recommended this in another comment but it's worth repeating here: if you haven't read the book version of All The President's Men, do yourself a favor and read it, because seriously, it's the same exact thing we're dealing with now. Attacks on the media? Check. ("Fake news" is apparently just the new "collection of absurdities", and Sean Spicer is likewise Ron Ziegler 2.0, complete with overheated press conferences and banning of news outlets.) Wacky and profoundly immoral hijinks to manipulate the campaign complete with paid operatives and foreign involvement while accusing the other party and the media of the same sort of thing ever so loudly? Check. And... the press and the people stepping up to call time on these shenanigans, even if it takes a while? Check, check, check.
My takeaway from it is that we all do need to keep the pressure on our Congressbeings--- there's a line in the book, "The men on the floor [of the Senate] were sharp interpreters of the political winds", which refers to the fact that the then-minority of Republican Senators all supported the resolution to create the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to go after the Watergate crew. IOW... if we blow hard enough, they're gonna read the winds. We've just got to keep blowing! *cheerleads cheerleads cheerleads*
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Date: 2017-03-02 11:41 am (UTC)I am currently in the "overload" mode of "so many reasons to call different reps, so few calling-people skill-points" and any thoughts from this comm that could help me organize myself would be epic. (I'm sort of leaning to calling my Senators about the need for an independent special counsel on the Russia connection, what with the latest info on Sessions' apparent chats with the Russian ambassador that he didn't mention in his confirmation hearing, and then, oh heavens, there's state/local stuff to wrangle.)
Last but not least, I recommended this in another comment but it's worth repeating here: if you haven't read the book version of All The President's Men, do yourself a favor and read it, because seriously, it's the same exact thing we're dealing with now. Attacks on the media? Check. ("Fake news" is apparently just the new "collection of absurdities", and Sean Spicer is likewise Ron Ziegler 2.0, complete with overheated press conferences and banning of news outlets.) Wacky and profoundly immoral hijinks to manipulate the campaign complete with paid operatives and foreign involvement while accusing the other party and the media of the same sort of thing ever so loudly? Check. And... the press and the people stepping up to call time on these shenanigans, even if it takes a while? Check, check, check.
My takeaway from it is that we all do need to keep the pressure on our Congressbeings--- there's a line in the book, "The men on the floor [of the Senate] were sharp interpreters of the political winds", which refers to the fact that the then-minority of Republican Senators all supported the resolution to create the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to go after the Watergate crew. IOW... if we blow hard enough, they're gonna read the winds. We've just got to keep blowing! *cheerleads cheerleads cheerleads*