Demand that John Boehner be removed!

[Greg in LA]

You've got a lot of experience dealing with the call takers at the Congressional offices.

You have good advice and I'll make my calls tomorrow on my cell phone, which has a different phone number.

I really don't know if they can trace the name or area code through caller ID if one dials *67. I use caller ID only when I'm calling an out of area district.

In a way though it doesn't really matter to me, we're paying for those phone lines and I'm going to use them.

[wetibbe]

First off I NEVER call politicians. I write snail mail on my letterhead and mail it to them. You would be surprised at how many actually reply. Probably 90% return letters.

Calling is to some aide that probably never transmits it. Letters are potent and usually laid on the intendeds desk.

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Calling for John Boehner's removal may be a - feel good - but it is innocuous and it "just ain't going to happen".

However, I will say as a VERY old timer, that I am disappointed in the Republican party. The RNC is bugging me constantly to shell out but I haven't. I may be a registered Republican but I am certainly NOT supportive any more.
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I have tracked Boehner's many positions and I am skeptical of the news media who have proven to be untrustworthy, undependable charlatans.

I would like to say that politicians now a days are not like the old days but it would be a misleading deception. Many Politicians were, back then, and now, political whores. Nothing has changed.
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We are certainly in the grips of a dilemma alright. The pro's and antis are locked in a death struggle like I have never seen before. I do believe that the citizens are undergoing a slow but steady transition of liberalism, tolerance and stupidity with emphasis on STUPIDITY. As we whites *( Make that Caucasians ) are more and more watered down and diluted with browns, blacks and off shore immigrants, eventually we will become the minority at the mercy of those same. This transition will occur over many decades and will most likely prevail after mid century and by 2100. Long after I am gone.

Those progressions will eventually overwhelm everything to the point that the situation is no longer sustainable. Natural resources will be exhausted, floras and fauna will become insufficient and the whole planet earth will be completely devastated to the point that it will no longer be livable. I saw this already in Ethiopia 20 years ago where the natives were dying en-mass from starvation.
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The concerns here expressed, by posters, are certainly justified. But look before you leap. As Reagan said: Trust but verify.

[ilbegone]

So as to remind of the message of the thread:

It’s time to call for a new House Speaker.

Demand that John Boehner be removed!

I don't think it matters if the message is a call, email, or old fashioned hard letter, I believe that the astronomical odds of the target politician actually seeing any real content is practically nil, 99.9999999% is filtered through an aide who assigns the message to a category and reduces the message to a minimum of bullet points, all subject to the interpretation of the aide. I prefer personal interaction with the aide.

If the aide likes what you say, you will have more say. If the aide doesn't like it...

I'm cynical enough about the process to think that unless an action is required in the case of an individual problem (The SSA is screwing over your newly widowed grandmother, the legislator tears a chunk out of someone's ass, The SSA dispenses the SS benefit grandma is entitled to) they throw broad thoughts into various electronic hoppers, maybe someone looks at it, maybe the janitor throws it out during his graveyard shift.

I think they are primarily interested in broad trends in terms of public opinion concerning issues rather than understand an individual message. The aide has to like an idea or understand an importance of a communication for there to be any chance of specifics passed on to the legislator.

But, one thing is for certain: if they have an address they will all send the same say nothing, diversionary, self promoting form letter they send to thousands of other people on a particular subject.

In the meantime, how about if we drop the race stuff. Many of those people are used to a cynical end as voting blocs, victimization pimping is a big part of the polarization they need to motivate people who might not be stirred otherwise.