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...intend to do the things you elected me for, but I can't do them all by myself. For every positive change I propose -- in health, in education, the environment, whatever -- powerful interests will stand in our path, and the lobbyists will swarm around each Congressperson like flies. Therefore the only way we will move ahead is if you, my fellow citizens, will get involved and mobilize a mighty force for change. You will have to lobby and petition and otherwise raise a fuss in order to make up with your numbers what you lack now in power and wealth...
...stand up for yourself, just laugh along, Ms. Senator or Mr. Congressperson. It's nothing serious, just our country's future...
Most Principled Congressperson Would nobody step forward and accept responsibility for the $500 billion S&L debacle? Wait! Who's that dowdy Representative resigning her seat to atone for Congress's sins? Lacey Davenport, the heart-of-gold legislator from the glorious state of Doonesbury. The grande dame was swept back into office in a write-in campaign...
When your backyard becomes a war zone, you might grow angry, throw tantrums or call your Congressperson. Or you might even, like the Drug Policy Foundation and the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project, file multi-million dollar lawsuits against William Bennett and his czarist policies. Whatever the gains of troop employment (insignificant by many accounts), the government cannot afford to create this unnecessary hostility towards its assault on drugs...