At Least We Tried: Cap And Trade Phone Calls Crashed House Phone System

Proof • June 27, 2009

And yet still it passed.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – A coordinated conservative push to kill a climate change bill managed to at least take down the House of Representatives’ phone switchboard.
The volume of calls to House members Friday was so high that a spokesman for the House chief administrative officer told CNN Radio the system could not handle it.
“Phone traffic has increased to a level where some callers are receiving an ‘all circuits are busy now, please try back again later’ message,” communications director Jeff Ventura wrote in an e-mail response. …
Busy signals blared from congressional offices beginning Friday morning. Traffic was especially jammed at key committees and in offices of potential swing voters, including Democrats from traditionally Republican states, like Texas.

There may be a heavy price to pay for ignoring the people. Especially on something that amounts to a gigantic on pretty much everything in the economy. If this becomes law, every time food prices or book prices or electricity prices go up, Americans are going to know why. And they’re going to know who was responsible for it.
And, hopefully, those people won’t win any more elections.
But remember, the fight isn’t over. Email your Senator now.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

Myself, and my friends who know Hiram, have done all we could….

From personally calling on local offices, to trying to get through the switchboard in DC, and it was only successful in as much as we could get information to the Repubs. Not one single Dem-O-Commie would answer the phone (DC), nor was the local office made receptive to comment!

Taking on the danger of being repetitive, I ask you all:

DON’T EVER FORGET THIS!

DON’T EVER FORGET WHO THESE TRAITORS ARE!!!

drip, drip, drip…………..
Jackass Jimmy

There may be a heavy price to pay for ignoring the people.

Shit, Rob. There isn’t going to be any price to pay, just like every other time the socialists win another one. Too many cons just sit on their asses bleating about gays and atheists all day in forums like this instead of taking real action.

My how the USA has changed in the last 80 years. If someone were to try this back then… there might be a revolution or something. But not today. Not when everyone has their soma or expect it to be given to them. It’s much easier to park one’s fat ass into an easy chair behind the TV and have con viewpoints hand-fed by FoxNews or peck away at a keyboard with Cheeto-dusted fingers while posting a diatribe how people that are socially different than the religious, hetero right are ruining this country.

For me, it’s far too easy to take down ultra-libs like Dino through a simple application of logic and facts. The same goes for ultra-cons. But I don’t learn anything or strengthen myself in doing so. So I’m not going to waste my time doing it anymore unless it furthers the mission of going forward and returning this country to it’s former glory.

I challenge the rest of you complainers-only to do the same.
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

It’s been that way ALL DAY!! Since before 07:00 EST.

That’s
Enough
Already

This has shown that the politicians care shit about the constituents! Which means they FAILED in the single PRIMARY and SOLE PURPOSE they serve: “SERVE THE PEOPLE’S WILL!“

This actually forces me to ask you all:
What would you do if an employee came into your office, and pissed in your coffee cup while picking your pocket and laughing in your face???

Thought so……….

DON’T EVER FORGET THESE “PEOPLE”!!
Ensure that your children, grandchildren, and heirs, NEVER FORGET/NEVER FORGIVE this abomination!
Mr. Mxyzptlk

Well I’ll give Pomeroy credit for not voting for that garbage. He must be the Moe of the 3 Stooges.
sayanything-2407

Put out the list of those that voted for it and a list of those who didn’t vote for it.

Know who to put your support behind, and know who you will need to support for competition to thier seat when time comes.
Bodhi

If cap and trade passes, it will be the nail in the coffin for the liberals in 2012.
Rick Becker

Hang in there. Keep believing and keep spreading the word. The pendulum will swing.
ConservativeGal

I starting calling at 7:00 this morning and couldn’t get through. The people have spoken, although many didn’t listen.

I think (or at least I hope) that this bill will be much more difficult to pass in the Senate.
jimmypop

If cap and trade passes, it will be the nail in the coffin for the liberals in 2012.

the media will not allow it
sayanything-4625

the media will not allow it

The media isn’t that powerful, if you cause massive tax increases no amount of propaganda will save Zero.
Jackass Jimmy

Anyone wanting to know the first step?

The relationship between personal responsibility and personal freedom has been long covered up by socialists. There’s a reason for that: if people know that one comes with the other, they won’t be as willing to accept the handouts that it takes to buy the votes necessary to keeping socialists in power.

So it’s important to communicate this relationship to as many people as possible in the easiest-to-understand manner available. Remember… you are dealing with people on both sides who have willingly traded their freedoms for securities and who have vacillated in them to the point of intellectual atrophy AND those who have been born into a world where they really have never had an opportunity to have either.

It’s a tough row to hoe. But it’s got to start somewhere. Why not right here, right now?
2Hotel9

The 8 republican assholes who crossed the aisle need their asses thrown in the street. Screw election time, lawsuit and recall, now. They are clearly NOT representing their constituents, as evidenced by the MASSIVE amount of phone calls and email they received ordering them NOT to vote for this fucking shit. Time to show these fucks the door and force them into their real party, the Democrat Party.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Thanks Rob for all you did with this and to all the people out there who worked their behinds off fighting the good fight. It’s not over. I have heard they need 60 in the Senate for this to get to the General Secretary. They’re counting on blockhead Franken to get them there in the Fall. Let’s do this thing. Let’s make Conrad and Dorgan’s phones melt. If you’re in MN,SD, or wherever, start tomorrow. I’m pissed. I’m 100% determined to take our country back. Let’s get out to the tea party and let’s start hammering our Senators.

I don’t think they are going to get the southern dems to vote for this socialist agenda because they now if they do they will be defeated in the next election. The Blue dogs is who we need to start working over.
dawneyr

Gordon Brown isn’t THIS ill-informed so he must be THIS corrupt. The manmade climate change global communist fraud will HURT the world’s poorest people hands down. The Jester of Expenses proposes a fund that is supposed to counter the harm the manmade green fraud will cause. They are becoming sleight-of-hand specialists at creating crisis with a preconceived “remedy” in hand. This is historically what dictators do to shift and gain power, and dictators have never had a soft spot for the world’s poorest. For those truly interested in helping the poor, there is a more efficient and honest way than by hurting them in order to create a backing to create the funding to pseudo-help them. Using a cover of helping the poor in order to enforce global communism, whether it is with the Live Earth’s coerce the youth pop lie, or the 3-legged Purpose-Driven shift the “faith” votes to socialist democrats lie, or the ultimatum from the UN’s Ban Ki Moon suggesting the criminalization of dissenters to the manmade global warming lie, is thoroughly evil.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6583350.ece
octupus25

Thanks Rob for all you did with this and to all the people out there who worked their behinds off fighting the good fight. It’s not over. I have heard they need 60 in the Senate for this to get to the General Secretary. They’re counting on blockhead Franken to get them there in the Fall. Let’s do this thing. Let’s make Conrad and Dorgan’s phones melt. If you’re in MN,SD, or wherever, start tomorrow. I’m pissed. I’m 100% determined to take our country back. Let’s get out to the tea party and let’s start hammering our Senators.
mplsbob

Those bastards just voted to double our heating bill! Hey stupid liberals, what the hell are you thinking!!? We have cold weather for 7 months of the year
dawneyr

All 219 should be shown the door. Whether Democrats or Republicans voting for this global taxation, power grabbing, population control lie, it is anti-American and a bill that will hurt the world’s poorest people aside from destroying our economy and regulating every aspect of our lives. All 219 of those communists should be shown the door including pagan-propagating international figures who have championed this destructive measure such as Gordon Brown, Ban Ki Moon, Tony Blair, Bono and the rest.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

Gents,

You might already be doing this, but in daily conversation with others, I cautiously bring up Congressional spending, and in almost every case I have found that there are almost uniform strong feelings against it.

Today I was speaking with someone who told me that he used to be a Democrat, but was now seething. I gave him the URLs to both SAB and the local political action group.

Spread the word, get recruits.

They want to be recruited.

They’re mad and want to do something.

The Leftards have turned up the heat and the frogs are jumping out of the pot. We just need to give them a productive place to jump to.

Bring others over to SAB and your local political action group, most likely, the local TEA Party organizers.

Git ‘er done.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

By my count, SAB readers sent out 515 emails via the site’s automated system.

Not bad, I’d say. We did our party.

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