May 2

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5/2/2010 9:16 AM 

Yesterday was thin with only three emails of consequence, two ordinary ones of consequence followed the one from Alby Baker I’d then promptly forwarded to the Vashon Green Discuss list. For those off–island who may have missed his posting of that on the Standup Seattle list, it relayed an assessment of the oil spill that said the world’s oceans will die. Today my distress descends on those other two emails.

Tell Congress: Break Up the Big Banks Now. (Democrats.com)

Call Your Congress Member at (202) 224-3121 and tell them that you will vote against them if they vote to fund an escalation in Afghanistan. (After Downing Street.org)

Finding these two generic pleas of the sort “Tell your congress …” on the same page with the poisoning of the oceans gave me a moment of futile rage. Menwomen, for the past six years we have been urged to call, prod, help, urge, or threaten Congress to do this or that with ninety percent failure. On no single issue of vital importance has the public will prevailed. And now the failure to regulate baby and its drill is manifest in the most ghastly way possible.

Here’s a reason for us couch progressives to drink a bitter tea. Will we do it, Vashon?