Time is NOW to do something
Folks, we have a unique opportunity right now to tell our leaders what we expect of them. In this time of disarray, I'm sure that they are torn as to what they should be doing and it's time for us to remind them who signs their paychecks - US! I'm writing my senators and rep daily, with numerous other letters daily to other groups, as you'll see below. I've been demanding (1) independent investigation meaning BUSH has no hand in it (2) firing of Chertoff and Brown (3) total and instant revamping of FEMA, putting it back into it's previous role as disaster aid, not police agency. (4) in light of Bush's idiot appointees and their inept handling of the disaster, I've asked that Congress consider NO ONE recommended by Bush until all of the above is settled - and that includes his Court nominee.
Please, please join me in this letter writing campaign. They ARE paying attention right now and they know their jobs are on the line! If you are on AOL, you can go to keyword 'government' and write all your reps at one time. If not, you can go to www.senate.gov to access their webform and www.house.gov to access your rep's webform. Please feel free to borrow from my letter(s) anytime.
I've just sent the following to House Democrats thru www.housedemocrats.gov. I wanted to find a way to thank Nancy Pelosi for her leadership and her comments yesterday - and to express outrage at what is beginning to be a police state in New Orleans.
For distribution to House Dems and Nancy Pelosi:
We are unfortunately represented by a Bush flunky, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. There is no getting through to this selfish, self-centered woman who is controlled by the old Batista Dollars in Miami....we ended up with her through gerrymandering and she does NOT represent the views of us in the Florida Keys.
However, we wanted to personally thank Nancy Pelosi for the forceful manner in handling the Bush issue in relation to the disaster in New Orleans.
Bush appointed Brown. Brown should be fired. Chertoff shouldn't be there. None of the Bush appointees are qualified, but then, neither is he. I believe the man suffers from severe mental illness and he's putting this country in grave danger....yet no one in his party is willing to admit it and...they cover it up!!! (His Supreme Court Nominee is frightening too).
I'm also very disturbed by Tom Delay's comments yesterday that these types of problems with FEMA don't happen in Red states. Hastert's comments about rebuilding New Orleans were cruel and symbolic of what these people seem to stand for.
I hope you will all join Ms. Pelosi and continue the fight and please know we're behind you. I'd like to see FEMA restored to it's FORMER state, where it acted as a relief / disaster agency, NOT a police agency. We have just now seen on Fox News (No...we dont normally turn it on - it happened to be on a TV where we were) where a doctor in New Orleans who had been operating in the dark, with few supplies, in a building with a flooded, snake-infested first floor reported that the supplies and fuel for the generator that the parent company of the hospital sent to them never arrived because FEMA confiscated it!!!!
This is becoming a police state and it's alarming. I am also alarmed that we accept assistance from Mexico but not from Cuba, with some of the finest doctors in the world. Bush's politics continue to make a farce of this entire heartbreaking disaster.
Please continue the attack and let's get something done here - something that will stop Americans from feeling so helpless and ashamed of our country and our government.
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