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Ok you call your representatives. You write letters to representatives, instead of signing questionably meaningful online petitions or other such things. You vote for the people you think will represent your interests.
Then, for your diligence, you're rewarded with this:
No Permanent Bases: Passed Both Houses, Removed in Conference Committee
What then John? Vote on another lot of bastards who refuse to listen to the will of the people and hope for the best, while more of our constitutionally provided civil rights are eroded, while we continually position ourselves as aggressors in a prefabricated, never-ending war on terror?
What's it going to take?
Then, for your diligence, you're rewarded with this:
No Permanent Bases: Passed Both Houses, Removed in Conference Committee
When the House and the Senate pass similar but not identical bills, they create a conference committee to work out the differences. When they both passed amendments to the "emergency supplemental" spending bill stipulating that none of the money could be used to build permanent bases in Iraq, the conference committee, behind closed doors this week, resolved that non-difference by deleting it. more
What then John? Vote on another lot of bastards who refuse to listen to the will of the people and hope for the best, while more of our constitutionally provided civil rights are eroded, while we continually position ourselves as aggressors in a prefabricated, never-ending war on terror?
What's it going to take?
