{"id":222,"date":"2008-09-29T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=222"},"modified":"2008-09-29T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T00:31:51","slug":"no-blank-check-for-wall-street-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/09\/29\/no-blank-check-for-wall-street-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"No blank check for Wall Street: now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"no“Now is the time for Congress to come together again and vote on a real, comprehensive plan that will solve the crisis while still protecting the taxpayers and restarting our economic growth.\u00c2\u00a0 I am prepared to stay here and in session as long as it takes, and I know many of my colleagues in Congress feel the same.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

— Washington Congressman Jay Inslee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sunday night’s Treasury phone call<\/a> provides a stark backdrop for the House’s shocking defeat of the modified Paulson bill.\u00c2\u00a0 We — the weird multipartisan coalition involving skeptics, conservatives, progressives, and nervous congresspeople in-close elections — won the battle.\u00c2\u00a0 With the Congress out of session Tuesday for Rosh Hashanah, there’s a brief hiatus.\u00c2\u00a0 Now what?<\/p>\n

I’m not sure that No blank check for Wall Street’s <\/strong>15 comments and counting on Nancy Pelosi’s profile<\/a> had a lot to do with this vote … but they — and the handful of comments that are starting to pop up on other politicians’ Facebook pages<\/a> — certainly lay the base for continued progress.\u00c2\u00a0 We continue to get more fans on Facebook<\/a>, now up to 670.\u00c2\u00a0 And hopefully are now getting into a rhythm of checking their updates, too: 15 comments out of 670 people is a little over 2%, which is decent — not great — response rate.<\/p>\n

No significant links yet as far as I know.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well.\u00c2\u00a0 If changing the world was easy, everybody would do it.<\/p>\n

The way I see it, the best approach at this point is to continue our Facebook activism<\/a> and look for other new outreach paths.\u00c2\u00a0 For example, we have close to enough people involved that we might be able to get a digg campaign going … if and when we get a good post about us, we’ll give it a try.\u00c2\u00a0 And hopefully people are continuing to send out email and ping their Facebook friends.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I think there’s also a strong feeling that something <\/em>needs to be done.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re in a mess here, and while it was very encouraging to hear that the Treasury wasn’t planning on acting for a couple of weeks, that’s still not a lot of time.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s assume that Congress listens to the Jay Inslees, and decides to stay and do the right thing.\u00c2\u00a0 What do we want them to do?<\/p>\n

I don’t think we as a group know yet, so now’s a really good time to start talking about it.\u00c2\u00a0 I set up a page on the wiki where we can start to discuss it<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 If we can get to some agreement, we can turn it into an open letter, maybe a blog post …<\/p>\n

Will anybody listen?\u00c2\u00a0 There’s no way to know.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not impossible: Get FISA Right<\/strong> wrote an open letter to Obama, and he not only listened but wrote back … people working together can get their voice heard.\u00c2\u00a0 At least if there are enough of them, working together effectively.\u00c2\u00a0 The strategy and planning page on the wiki<\/a> describes what we’re doing to try to make it happen — assistance and suggestions welcome!<\/p>\n

For now … here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how you can help.<\/p>\n

If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on Facebook:
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  1. Sign up as a fan<\/a> and watch your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153updates\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next<\/li>\n
  2. reply to the No blank check for Wall Street<\/strong> thread on Nancy Pelosi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s profile<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. post this link, share it with your Facebook friends, and ask them to send a message to Nancy as well \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and to forward it to THEIR friends<\/li>\n
  4. when you get a chance, give feedback to other politicians on Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not on Facebook:
    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. sign up for our annoucement email list<\/a> and check your email for what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next!<\/li>\n
    2. email this information to your friends, and ask them to help<\/li>\n
    3. phone or email your legislators and tell them how you feel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      “Now is the time for Congress to come together again and vote on a real, comprehensive plan that will solve the crisis while still protecting the taxpayers and restarting our economic growth.\u00c2\u00a0 I am prepared to stay here and in session as long as it takes, and I know many of my colleagues in Congress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}