Today I spent some time calling a number of the Congressional Field Offices here in the glorious state of Kentucky and additional calls to the Washington DC offices, mainly Ed Whitfield (R-KY) and Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) offices and I found a recurring theme… they don’t know a damn thing about anything about anything.
I asked about ObamaCare, flag@whitehouse.gov and the whereabouts and times of any town halls meeting in the District. First they know painfully little about ObamaCare about all they wanted to know is if I was ‘for it’ or ‘again’ it’ and they could not answer a single question about the bill…
I did find this interesting one of the offices I spoke to said the they had had no calls for support until today and they have had 5 calls in support, I said ‘yeah that’s because Obama directed his supporters to call in a mass e-mail’. She said she knew of no such e-mail from the President to gin up support for health care (I’m paraphrasing) Well there is an e-mail and here it is…
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Then there is this site http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/commitaugust
And this isn’t “Astroturfing”?
I think I would call that MANUFACTURED SUPPORT and Dopey Obama is still begging for money too… but I’m sure my local congressional staffers won’t know a damn thing about it, likely to busy watching American Idol.
So I went on and I ask about flag@whitehouse.gov , what’s the Congressman/Senators position on this? went on to ask if it was a violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978 or the Privacy Act of 1974 and not only did this morons not know about the snitch site Obama set up or if Whitfield or McConnell had a position they didn’t even know about Presidential Records Act of 1978 or the Privacy Act of 1974. One of them said and my head exploded… ‘well that [the Acts] was a long time ago I’m not sure those laws are still around’. WHAT?!! So I said well the Constitutions and the Bible are old too, maybe should throw them out as well, then I when on to explain Acts don’t expire without an ACT of Congress repealing them. Long story short, some minion that was in charge of the field offices was going to call me back because he knew everything about everything well that never did call me back, so I’ll try again Monday.
See it’s a catch 22 for the Constitutional Lawyer Big Ears Obama…
“There’s also a statute that requires the White House to retain all communications that it receives. It can’t try to rewrite history by pretending it didn’t receive anything, if the White House deletes anything, it violates one statute. If the White House collects data on the free speech, it violates another statute.”
[Judge Andrew] Napolitano was referring to the Privacy Act of 1974, which was passed after the Nixon administration used federal agencies to illegally investigate individuals for political purposes. Enacted after Richard Nixon’s resignation in the Watergate scandal, the statute generally prohibits any federal agency from maintaining records on individuals exercising their right to free speech.
White House Move to Collect ‘Fishy’ Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say
Who’s behind the Internet Snitch Brigade
But it didn’t end there, oh no. Another one of the brain trust (Congressional Staffer) told me upon my complaint of their collective cluelessness that she got up at 4AM every day and didn’t have time to watch the news.. I replied that the office doesn’t open until 10AM so you have 6 hours every morning to educate yourself and I’d start if I was you… I mean gee you only work for a Congressman why should you know what’s going on in the country? Crazy talk I know. I swear these people are in a bubble and have no clue what’s going on out here in the REAL WORLD.
Lastly on town halls they knew that there MIGHT be some town halls, but they wasn’t REAL SURE there was going to be any or where they might be and they’d call me if they had more information… I asked if I’d called faster if I was in or out of a Union? To which they asked what that meant… I said never mind! Now granted I have Republican Congressmen both House and Senate and they are not going to vote for ObamaCare as they have stated, but I think I need to go to the meeting to tell them their staffer needs to get a clue. There were several other issues I touched on with them that they knew nothing about and in closing one kid said “Is there anything else I can do for you?” I said “Yes, pick up a paper, turn on the news and find out what’s going on in your world, that’s all I ask.”
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Un Freaking Real.
I don’t know why I am surprised, really, but the ignorance of the general population just never ceases to amaze me.
Gimme a yell if you decide to head down to the offices – I’ll go with ya!
heh.
Try calling them one day and ask them questions about what’s going on and you’ll be stunned at how clueless they are…
Whitfield needs to get his people on the ball or he needs to think about a suitable replacement.
I find it ironic that you were told 5 people were for the bill when you called. When I called my Senator [schumer] a few weeks back to tell him to vote against anything that came his way at this point, I asked that same question and low and behold at 1-2PM they claimed only 5 dissenting calls the entire day. Hmmm Wondering if that’s the line they are told to say.
I do not know but what I do know is they know little of what is going on beyond their 4 walls.