You’re going On Vacation?

Where does the Senate and the House of Representatives think they are going? Vice President Cheney flew to Iraq and told the government they shouldn’t go on vacation.

I want to turn on C-Span and see the House of Representatives and the Senate sitting in their respective chairs making policy; discussing it, showing the American people that they just might have read the bills they are signing. Right now it looks like everybody left at half time. Never mind, “negotiations behind closed doors” that perpetuate the Iraqi War with no end in sight; sending the same men and women back into combat, because there is no draft and because that would certainly stop this sick fiasco.

Sit down, every last one of you, in front of the American people and do the JOB that you were elected TO DO. Stop shuffling the cards. If you are going to Impeach, Impeach. You voted to keep this war, explain why our children (and certainly not many of yours) need go back three and four times to die for it. Explain why it costs billions for 150,000 troops in Iraq ? Where is the rest of the money going? To whom? Explain NOW, or bring the troops home. If you want to clean up the air, clean it up NOW.. Don’t designate funds. Fix the Ninth Ward in New Orleans . We need jobs. Stop building America with Mickey Mouse ears. Don’t pitch McDonald’s hats for graduation gifts. Don’t tell Americans they can’t buy cheap drugs from Canada , because the drugs may have problems while we sell alcohol and cigarettes with a label that says watch out, but do it anyway. Say the word “homeless” out loud several times, so it exists. You might even do something about it. Get off non-issues that feed this consumptive culture.

Resolution to Vote For? Shall it be this leg, that one, a toe, half a head, an eyeball? A son, a daughter? Which part? Which whom are you willing to part with? This war is about privatizing oil and building bases in Iraq . Our soldiers are wounded and dying and this country is running out of gas. Stop it NOW!

NO waiting until September. No fishing. No golf. No freebies. No raises this year. No nothing! Cut the sad faces. Show up on time. Sit in the heat of it. You work for us and at this point, you are non- union.

David Plumb