Diane Ritter

Why Friday Came Early

You're right Steve, the whole thing stinks to high heaven. About all we can do at this point is to write our Senators and Congressmen with an even more persuasive threat than Paulson's and Bush's: "Vote against this, or I will vote against you. Absolutely, positively, guaranteed."

Seems to me that the place where we can get the most traction against this thing is in the House of Representatives, not the Senate. Only 1/3 of the Senate are up for re-election. But each and every US Representative is going to be judged by his constituents in the voting booth in a few short weeks. Let them know, loud and clear, we can't vote against Paulson, and we can't vote against Bush, but we can sure vote against them. And if they pass this Bill, that is exactly what we should do.