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House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech
Hugh Pickens writes "CNN reports that House switchboards have been flooded by phone calls — nearly twice the normal average — and hit with an unusual volume of constituent e-mails as voters voice their concern over the worsening debt-ceiling crisis. At least 104 of 279 congressional websites surveyed by CNN were down or had experienced slow connections on Tuesday, after President Obama's speech Monday night. In his address to the nation, Obama called on the American people to 'make your voice heard.' House Speaker John Boehner's website responded with a 'Server Too Busy' or 'Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)' message during parts of the day. His switchboard reported as many as 150-300 callers on hold, wanting to leave their thoughts for the speaker. House Chief Administrative Officer spokesman Dan Weiser said that lawmakers' websites and phone lines began to sag with the traffic on Monday night. 'Last night we had some website problems. ... There was some websites that were hosted by outside vendors that had slowness, sluggishness, people had trouble getting in. And that was rectified early this morning.'"
I can't rate you down, nor would I but the pace and phrasing of your post makes your post seem unbelievable or as some kind of crazy rant. I will read the source material you have presented and make my own judgements. These are serious accusations.
But I do agree that the Tea Party Republicans are a problem with their impossibly rigid views and policies. Most, if not all, should be made to rethink their positions by having them voted out of their positions.
Our system of government was not setup for this large of a population. When the countru was founded there were many who thought the constittuent:representative ratio was too high and it is faaaar worse now. It is time to dissolve the union and form 50 new nations.
While I too have a dim view of FDR, and I agree that on the face of it he did precipitate our entry into WW2 by active policy decisions, at the same time do you really support the alternative? Japan attacked the US because the FDR administration would not budge on their efforts to coordinate sanctions against Japan for their activities in China, which were indeed heinous crimes against humanity. Would you rather the US did nothing? Should we have continued to trade with and supply a nation known to be committing a wanton genocide?
FDR was guilty of many detrimental acts toward the American people, things which were so blatantly unconstitutional that he had to threaten to pack the Supreme Court with his own men to get the justices to reach such atrocious decisions as Wickard v. Filburn. However, objectively I'm not sure that many other Presidents would have been able to justify taking a different position toward Japan in terms of trade and diplomacy with conditions being what they were, and as such I cannot fault FDR personally for what more or less anybody would have done.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
Yes. Now what about all the Republicans who cheerfully voted 7 times to raise the debt ceiling when Bush was in power now refusing to do so without massive budget cuts, or in some cases at all.
Hypocrisy is the mother's milk of politics.