Originally Posted by
scambo1
Some of our politicians are still fighting the good fight. I know my representative personally. He is often under attack because he's not on the take. He is a signer of our fair open skies letter. A republican and a legitimately good and smart man.
There is a LOT of heat on IMEX even being renewed at all. While its more or less a partisan issue (most dems and a few neocons uniting behind it as a crony capitalist slush fund jobs program) there's over 200 congressional signatures already in favor of our call to action on it, with a large percentage of dems as well. It is VERY much in jeopardy. We have a very good chance of either killing it entirely or at least taking the emerati's Bank of Boeing welfare check out of it. That'll be funny too, because while they talk smack about "taking our planes back" (empty threat) if they ever did move to penalize us in any way, things would not work out well for them. Their biggest stick would be to lock us out of their bases which provide the vast majority of their regional defense.
We need to keep the pressure up but its looking like we have a good chance of taking those megalomaniacs down a few notches.