Posted by
Bullfrog on Friday, August 14, 2009 12:58:23 PM
Anne Flaherty reports on My Way news that members of congress were flooded with emails yesterday, to the point of shutting down the servers.
Amid
a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of
Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the
House's primary Web site.
I don't ever recall such a reaction from an electorate. Sure, the anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s roused a lot of people, but they were demonstrating on street corners and on college campuses, not flooding their representatives' snail mail boxes with letters of disgust.
Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the House's chief administrative officer,
which maintains the Web site, said traffic data was not available and
could not be released without the lawmakers' consent.
But anecdotally, he said, the spike in e-mail volume was widely believed to be a result of the health care debate.
"It is clearly health care reform," Ventura said. "There's no doubt about it."
Duh. Do. Not. Want. Ever think it might be a good idea to scrap the bill(s), if this many people feel so strongly about it? I think this is going to be a long, hot, August, even though climate-wise, it's been one of the coldest on record in a long time.
Democrats
are trying desperately to regain control of the debate, with the White
House posting a new Web site designed to dispel what it called "the
misinformation and baseless smears that are cropping up daily." House
Democratic aides have set up a health care war room out of Majority
Leader Steny Hoyer's office.
The shriller you get, guys, the more it's obvious that you're losing your case for this health care reform baloney. You have to set up a "war room," Steny? War on your constituents, and those of fellow Democratics in the House? Not cool.