Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises

[Guest guest]

You are far kinder than I. I plan to tell them to get their donations

from those whom they serve...the corporations. When they start

serving WE THE PEOPLE, the we will support them.

 

 

 

, dar

<dobbie606 wrote:

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> Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises

> An Immodest Proposal to Awaken Sleeping Democrats -

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> or Let 'Em Be Put to Sleep Once and for All

>

> By Steve Bhaerman

>

>

> With each new revelation of criminality, hubris and

incompetence on

> the part of the

> Bush Administration, there is one thing I find truly amazing:

While the

> Bush approval

> numbers now hover a couple of degrees above freezing, the Democrats

seem

> to have

> made no gains whatsoever. Amazing. But not surprising.

>

> At a time when courage and leadership are being called for, the

> Democratic Party

> leadership (now there's an oxymoron rich in irony content) isn't

taking

> the call. Think of

> how John Kerry wimped out in the face of very obvious and alarming

voter

> fraud in Ohio.

> Consider how few Democratic Senators stood against the abuses of the

> so-called Patriot

> Act, or who stood with courageous Sen. Russ Feingold in his call to

> censure Bush. Or how

> mealy-mouthed the Dems have been in extracting us from an immoral,

> illegal and ill-

> conceived war. If the Democrats are the firewall between a

> proto-fascist regime leading

> us backward into neo-feudalism, then God help us.

>

> Well, as the saying goes, God helps those who help themselves,

and

> I may have a self-

> help formula for the millions of us suffering from " outrage

fatigue " and

> ready to play " lead

> the leader. " I call it the Empty Envelope campaign, and here's how

it

> works. Over the next

> month, as the Democrats are gearing up for a campaign year where

they

> are hoping to

> regain control of Congress, let's send the Democratic Central

Committee

> empty envelopes

> instead of donations: Empty envelopes for empty promises.

>

> You use can use a version of the letter I've written below,

modify

> it as you like, or write

> your own original letter in place of or in addition to my letter.