Reply #21: And if you DON'T call them because you think it's a lost cause,

[RazzleDazzle]

it IS a lost cause because they won't get any (or as many) calls as they might and can honestly say, "My constituents don't care about that."

Nice little self-fulfilling prophey you got going there. They may not represent you particularly well now, but you HAVE to give them the information to do better, whether they will or not is another matter. However, at this point Bush is so reviled, even by many Republicans, that they're running scared and might listen.

They listened BIG TIME on the ports issue, much better than our own Dems listen to anything. So you never know, except one thing:

If you DON'T call and make your views known in no uncertain terms, they can't possibly know your views.