The People’s House can’t take your e-mail
The People’s House? If you’re lucky enough to get through…
Via The Hill:
The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill.
As a result, some constituents may get a ‘try back at a later time’ response if they use the House website to e-mail their lawmakers about the bill defeated in the House on Monday in a 205-228 vote.
“We were trying to figure out a way that the House.gov website wouldn’t completely crash,” said Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the Chief Administrative Office (CAO), which oversees the upkeep of the House website and member e-mail services.
The CAO issued a “Dear Colleague” letter Tuesday morning informing offices that it had placed a limit on the number of e-mails sent via the “Write Your Representative” function of the House website. It said the limit would be imposed during peak e-mail traffic hours.
“This measure has become temporarily necessary to ensure that Congressional websites are not completely disabled by the millions of e-mails flowing into the system,” the letter reads.
Ventura likened the problem to a bottleneck scenario on a highway, where multiple lanes of traffic converge into a smaller set of lanes. In that situation, some cars get to move forward while others have to remain at a standstill.
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If you want your email to through just use the subject “Nancy Pelosi is right”
Hmmm……..I couldn’t get through to my republican senator either. His e-mail site has disabled the verification code.
Ironically, I DID get to send an e-mail to my democratic senator thanking him for voting against this boondoggle and urging him to continue his opposition.
Ain’t that a kick in the head?
What rubbish; they only let 2 through, then say they’re full.
If they had half a brain over there they would just put a poll on the site – but wait.. then they would have to deal with the hard truth that Americans recognize their socialist agenda are mad as hell!
And those were 2 love notes to Barney Frank.
Hmmm who appoints the CAO head and it’s mi ions… I smell a rat of the genus and species Pelosius rattus or Reidus mousserius
Republican congressional leaders promised to deliver a number of votes and failed to do so. The stock market tanks and people start thinking their jobs are about to disappear. The volume of email is double what it’s ever been & the system overloads. All Pelosi’s fault. If only she had appointed a more honest Minority Leader this wouldn’t have happened.
minions, I mean
The reason these Congress critters can’t take our emails is they’re too busy hiding underneath their desks or behind Jewish holidays. If these crooks were really concerned about “saving” the economy they’d bypass taking off work and get to work.
It’s all just one excuse after the other.
I wonder how swamped their voicemail system is right now?
I knew a smelled a rat…. lgm… nice try… it’s the Dem leadership that created this mess in the 90′s and it’s the Dems who won’t fix it. The mere fact you refer to the Minority leader as culprit shows your ignorance. The Dems have the votes to pass anything they want… get a clue. Lefty.
This is getting interesting. It seems that e-mail and phone service to our representatives is down all across the board.
Either this is legitimately due to an overwhelming number of messages or it’s an attempt to shut up the public.
I just called my senator’s local office. Calls work great and get the point across, I believe, a lot better than an email that they can just hit, delete, delete, delete.
Call and tell the poor guy/gal on the other side that you don’t want Paulson to turn the Treasury into his own personal investment bank.
Why would I want to give money to buy distressed properties, who, yes, may turn around and make a profit. BUT, for what? More govt programs? No, thanks.
They want us to believe it’s some kind of investment, but they leave out the actual RETURN.
No one that talks about it as an investment, says they’ll give you back the money, in the form of cash.
They can’t handle email, but yet they want to take over our financial sector?
Give me a break!
Rate limit your mail traffic on the Internet Provider links then put more mail gateways up. They sell cheap servers at Best Buy. Tell Nancy you need her Visa card.
You new to this IT thing pal? This is not a tough problem.
Do your dang bailout if you must but rest assured that the American people will demand justice and provision must be made for it. Congratulations to the Congressional Democratic Stalinists for managing to steal trillions out the back door of the US Treasury over the last 15 years. A sweet little caper. Enjoy your freedom while it lasts traitors, because the People are coming for you. This is not over.
…Echoes of the senate debate in 2007 on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”. For your viewing pleasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Bmr2mPXkw
(Senator Jeff Sessions summarizing the flaws of the bill under consideration at that time and reporting the phone system had failed due to the extraordinary call volume from the public [at about 1:50 in the video]).
I had a problem contacting my congressman’s office (Jeff Fortenberry) yesterday and today, so I used the telephone. His web site was jammed up and e-mails came bouncing back. A dollar or two for a long distance call isn’t much compared to the cost of a socialized economy.
Congressman Fortenberry seemed to be wavering early yesterday, but came through on the vote. I think the phone calls and e-mails helped. Now, if Jeff and the others who voted NO can stick to their convictions the market will have a chance to recover on its own. It will be tough for them what with Bush and the rest trying to jawbone this market correction into another Great Depression.
Get on the phone. Tell your representatives in government to keep their hands off the free market. Thank the ones that did the right thing yesterday.
I am sure our dear nan will ask the taxpaers that the phone, internet needs a new makeover. The sum of 1 billion ( a trillion should do it after it is all done) should cover it.
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lgm, this is about the inability of people to contact their representatives, not about politics.
You would be having a hissy fit if you could not get through to your representative to try and stop a conservative initiative.
Do you get paid to make these senseless remarks, or are you just clueless?
There clearly is a need for a process/hardware upgrade here. Interested people of congress, who always have the citizens best interests at heart, may want to solicit suggestions from their constituents as to possible changes and improvements, and their order of placement (i.e. prioritization). Of course, some changes obviously leap out but if the congress people are sincere they will want to go above and beyond so the majority is heard clearly and forcefully so. This should be a top priority program and one that I think will cost well less than 700 billion dollars, though of course one can never be sure these days.
Note: I actually am not being sarcastic in the above but if you think I am, I will not work very hard to dispute you.
You can bet if those were glowing emails of support for the dems… there would be hearings on how republicans neglects the IT systems of Congress and a committee needs to get to the bottom of it to have someone, some Republican, to blame.
LGM – Pelosi is the “leader” of the house and so takes the blame. This blame game is not a winner for the DNC. Pelosi led the congress to re-write this bill, and screwed up the delivery. Trying to divert blame like this shows how bad of a leader she really is.
My reps have had a piece of my mind already.
Even lgm and the other thinking leftocrats who ocassionally visit here are shell-shocked at the audacity of their heroes’ theft of the US economy. Their postings have been few and far between and when they do come, they are rather flaccid.
The terrifying thing is that the Democrats who voted against the bailout did so because they wanted more $$$, more pork, and more government control.
no wonder i couldn’t get through even to say good job and keep the faith. i did contact my 2 senators, but we need to keep up the pressure to stiffen their spine.
I will bet that the lobbists did not have a problem with their e-mails being received. After all they paid good money for that priviledge.
I called my senators’ offices a few days ago. Got voice mail for one and a live person for the other. I haven’t tried yet today. But I did send off an email to my Democrat Representative (Holden, D. PA) to thank him for voting against the bill. He probably didn’t do it for the right reasons, but I figure that it can’t hurt to give some positive feedback for at least one good vote. Too bad he usually doesn’t vote outside of his party’s line.
Hey lgm, the democrats promised to run the most ethical congress ever. If Nancy wasn’t a complete tool, then you wouldn’t have to worry about losing your job because college students are at risk of not getting school loans…But don’t worry, all the illegals who scored huge equity off of houses then walked away may send you thier kids…do you know Espanol? Mostly thanks go to your lovely democrat party and then the republicans for not putting a boot up their a$$e$!!
All is fine as long as the public is saying what our elected overlords want to hear …
LOL, Lobbyists have a special account to get through all the riff-raff.
If I were a Conservative House member I would roundly object to this throttling of constituent feedback …
I’ve been using the phone to call those who voted against the bill to express my thanks and to encourage them to stand firm.
Those poor little switchboard operators must be having quite a day though. The last call took about 30 rings to get answered. lol
I’m probably not the first one to point this out, but didn’t we just see the stock market plummet when it seemed that the bailout bill’s passage was imminent? And then, when the bill failed and our congresscrooks effectively tabled it for a few days, the market jumped back up? It looks to me like the fear in the market might be a fear of what’s in the bailout bill!
Please call your congressmen and make sure they don’t cave in to Pelosi. Even if they voted No before, make sure you strengthen their hands.
Thank you.
See, the Internet is like a series of tubes…
Congressman Pence’s office answered and since I couldn’t understand what the person who answered said, I asked if this was the office of the man who was standing firm against the bullies on the bailout and the guy responded, “That’s my boss.” You could hear the pride in his voice. I’m going to send Pence money for his campaign.
Here’s a LINK to his website and his explanation for why he opposes the bailout.
Maybe we should format and reinstall Congress?
On September 30th, 2008 at 4:26 pm, lgm said:
If only she had appointed a more honest Minority Leader this wouldn’t have happened.
HUH? I think the minority party elects its own leader.
Thanks Michelle, have had problems getting thru all day, did go to the phone and was able to leave a message of thanks for my Rep. Giffords a D here in AZ.
Pelosi’s brownshirts fixing the problem?
USMCDavid is right. This guy sounds like a liberal.
Instead of expanding capacity, via servers or something, this guy decides to “limit” a fundamental right of Democracy – to contact your elected representatives and tell them to……REPRESENT you.
Yep, and the check is in the mail!
Yes! (Can we keep Mike Pence, though?)
Meanwhile, if they’re short of money for an extra e-mail server, take it out of the member health plan. They can afford their own private insurance on their annual salary.
Congress with fingers in ears: LA LA LA LA LA LA LA WWWEEEEE CCCAAAAAAANNN’TTT HHHEEEAAAARRRRR YYYYOOOUUU LA LA LA LA LA LA.
Voter to congress: You will hear from us on election day A Holes.
PhredE #17, I am proud to say that I helped create that phone, email, and fax jam-up during the “comprehensive immigration reform” disaster.
In fact, you beat me to the punch on mentioning that the communication system has been down quite a few times in the past few years in great part because of the efforts of NumbersUSA members inundating the congresscritters with their displeasure over rotten immigration “reform” measures.
All I want to tell you is — it worked! So keep phoning, faxing, or emailing! Go for the local office if the Washington contact is down. Do it in the middle of the night or super early in the morning.
They’re in the habit of turning on the “message machine” when there’s so many calls coming in. Sometimes I’m lucky and get to talk to a real person.
We can’t stop now just because they say “the line is busy”! Off peak hours, that’s the ticket. And there is always snail mail, you know. If you can fax or email you can send a letter.
Plan B – try an end run – send comments to their campaign headquarters.
Blame Al Gore. He invented the internet.
Seriously though, Congress better get an upgraded mail system if they plan to keep coming up with such garbage legislation.
This is not over. They’ll come back and try and end run again. McCain is still pushing for this crap legislation. His campaign is completely asleep. Obama’s gonna win unless we stop him. McCain won’t fight. Maybe Palin will show some back bone in the debate. Also, the MSM (radio news) just had the balls to claim that today’s stock market rebound was based on the hope of a bailout!!! Not bargain hunters, which is the real reason it was up almost 500 points. Last Friday, we needed it Sunday. Monday came and went and we still need it. Now they’re talking Friday, or else. This crying wolf thing ain’t working on me. Tried house e-mail system for about 20 minutes – shut down still. Stop the bail-out!!! Let the markets adjust. We may still see a “correction” south of 9,000 in the DOW. Needs to find bottom before we can grow again. FYI… home prices rose in Minneapolis last month.
Although I live in Arizona, I might have mentioned that before, I called Barney Frank’s -tel: (202) 225-5931- office to state my displeasure with his comments and actions. They were very polite until I suggest he should resign for being a liar and a jerk. That seemed to upset them and they hung up on ME! Imagine that. I never got to ask if he was tested for AIDS before screwing us. Sensitive people in Taxachucetts don’t you think?
In two days it’s down about 2%? That’s tanking? And you teach math?
BTW everyone, mention to your rep we don’t want warrants! We want voting stock. That’s what Warren Buffet got for his $5 billion.
Simply route your emails through the Dept. of Justice, be sure and mention how much you want members of the House and Senate to be placed under oath.
Check this out.
The more important question for Congress – can we get really expensive servers that have a guaranteed cost overrun with built-in campaign contributions and other bribes?
This seems to be lefty talking point #37356. But what is it based on? When and where did the House minority leader “promise” a certain number of votes?
Maybe lgm can offer his reaction to #50.
I could use a laugh.
From the article Flenser linked:
So… the Dems cry FOUL about how they say Republicans are playing politics with this?
Turns out, the politics of this bill is what was important to the Dems.. not passage of the bill itself.
Well how about that? The Dems are in fact.. every vile scummy thing we say they are.
This election could and SHOULD be a Republican Mandate if McCain would just grow a pair and drive a stake through the Dem’s hearts. Enough of this HIGH ROAD crap. Get it done!
Get it done refers to the election.. not this bill.
btw…
Accountability? What accountibility?
A typical Democrat response…”I didn’t receive any e-mails (and if I did, and they were against the bailout, I still would not have “gotten” them…wink, wink, nudge, nudge)!”
Oh… and this tidbit is worth 3 swing states.
If you can, FAX them.
lgm:
I’m more interested in where lgm gets the idea that the Speaker appoints a Minority Leader.
I will also point out that the democrats didn’t need a single Republican vote to pass this monstrosity.
lgm has one consistent quality: he is never right.
What also annoys me is when I want to say e-mail Barney Frank and I can’t because I am not in his district. I have had the system redirect me to my representative’s e-mail..I think that “we the people” should have unhindered access to any one on Capitol Hill…especially the committee chairmen and ranking chairs and well…you get my point. If each Representative were only voting on laws that made a difference in their own districts then fine..but that’s not how it works..so I want to talk to them all.
On September 30th, 2008 at 4:32 pm, NJ-Aviator said:
PWNED!
Rush is of the opinion that Pelosi got exactly what she wanted; no way the Dems wanted to pass this boondoggle without the GOP votes. Either way, Pelosi and the Dems get to blame the Republicans for whatever disaster [they're expecting] happens.
So they intentionally disabled the system to keep it from becoming…disabled?
Yep. They’re gonna fix the economy, they’re gonna fix global warming, but they can’t handle email.
And yet we’re the stupid ones?
They don’t work for us. Try driving on Independence Ave when the House members are being called for a vote. I have waited as long as 25 minutes for the light at New Jersey Ave to change. The police keep the light red and wait very patiently for House members to meander out of their buildings and across the street. Most of them stroll slowly–like they don’t have a care in the world. I suppose most of them don’t.
My congressman is a liberal Democrat, but he voted against the bailout. He admitted no one could tell him what the money would be used for, whether it would solve the problem or if more would be requested. I’m just wondering now if this is his “John F’in Kerry” moment in the sun, where he can vote for the next version, then claim, “I voted against it before I voted for it.”
Just called ‘Buck’ McKeon’s (R-CA) office.
A LOT of angry voters have called too.
The Rs NEVER get it-REEaching across the aisle to abscond with my $$$$ is no longer acceptable.
Yeah, I would like to hear that as well. C’mon mathboy, let’s hear how you tapdance over your own party’s malfeasance, malpractice and corruption.
While you are at it, how about explaining how all those “no” vote Dems get a pass from the wrath of Bawney Fwank?
It is indeed strange, that when the democrats want to pass something, 100% of their folks fall in line 100% of the time. However, for some reason, their reps in those states where the elections are close did not have to vote for the bill….
Just got through with my e-mail suggestions to Mr. Hoyer. Was blocked out yesterday.
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Sorry, lgm’s comment was so funny I couldn’t stop laughing, causing a double post.
The guy needs a comedy career, he’s hilarious.
I called my Sen (Lieberman) and got human after about 15 rings. I called Chris Dodd and the 1st time I got a busy signal the second time it went to VM.
Here’s my pickle: My congresscritter is one of the leftest of the lefties, and my two senators are no better, plus one of them is a dunce. So who do I write to? I don’t have anybody for whom it would make any difference at all. They will always follow the Reid/Pelosi line unless they can find a way to screw things up even more.
You just love to troll, don’t you?
First off, let’s look at HOW we got here. We’re here due to the CRA, and the encouragement to make loans to marginal borrowers, in an attempt to create “diversity in home ownership” Then…we have John McCain trying to establish oversight over Fannie and Freddie, with Chris Dodd and Barney Frank saying no, that these organizations are just fine, no oversight needed.
Then…you know, instead of Nancy depending on having to get enough Republican votes, maybe she needed to keep her own folks in line, considering over 40% of her own side didn’t vote for it. Don’t blame us for your own side’s inability to present a unified front.
Also, no mention from you about Pelosi’s totally stupid use of her time to blast Bush and the Republicans. I mean, seriously…biting the hand that you hope will feed you. She needs the votes, so she goes out and…insults the people she needs to vote for her bill. Totally amazing. Totally stupid. It woke some people up, made them realize that there is no “bi-partisan” in her effort, even if she sold it to them that way. She threw them under the bus, so they returned the favor…a really good thing for a really crappy bill.
It’s not THEM, BAL – it’s those damned computers!
This is amazing. You can’t call them. You can’t email them and soon they will fix it so you can’t write them via snail mail.
These people have effectively staged a coup against the United States, overthrown the Constitution and have become oligarchs if not outright dictators. They have stolen our nation right out from under us.
How did it come to this? How do we take back our nation?
jamesrileyjr, you beat me to the quote.
Is this the Electronic Version of Putting their fingers in their ears…. and can say later.. Oh I Didn’t hear you saying this was a Mistake…my bad!!! Please vote me back in again..
I too got through to my democratic representative and received an answer from him as well. No response from my two Indiana senators.
Jim
Gary, In.
More like the People’s House WON’T take your emails — and I KNOW the vast majority of them are negative, telling Congress to flush this turkey once and for all.