[altroots] Re: [ARTNEWS] FW: A Response From Johnny Isakson

I feel you pain....and I agree with you that something has to be DONE....I like 
your suggestions....

What to do about it?
Perhaps have one week where we drape every piece of art, close every museum and 
gallery door, tape our mouths in public, lay down in front of PBS stations 
while they are taken off the air, shroud the corporate art, as well? Close the 
doctors offices that women need, close the hospitals for a day to protest 
insurance rape? 
 
Count me in!

Alice 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marscha Cavaliere 
  To: Allen Welty-Green 
  Cc: altroots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Artnews 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [ARTNEWS] FW: A Response From Johnny Isakson


  I usually do not chime in here on this subject, but I, too, need to, need to 
vent. 

  I worked for Issakson's firm once upon a time, of course met him and talked 
with him a great deal. Even though I knew we disagreed on many issues, he being 
R and me being D, this reply to DPW is so COMPLETELY party-line to a diabolical 
and corrupt policy that it makes me realize that there will be, in all honesty, 
the need for a civil war in our country, where friends and relatives will have 
to fight each other to right a country that in 8 years is changed so 
drastically. We peace loving people will have to confront, as I will in my 
letter to Issakson, not just intellectually any more. but emotionally and 
physically. The really disturbing part is that I have to also begin to confront 
my family members, too, and we have tried so hard not to let politics live 
amongst us.

  When I read yesterday's post on this issue, it made me so sickened, so angry, 
that I had a hard time falling asleep.
  I keep ruminating about the world that is envisioned with this thinking, it 
looks like a very ugly sci-fi movie. Arts and letters, banished? Oppositional 
thinking, censored? What to do about it?
  Perhaps have one week where we drape every piece of art, close every museum 
and gallery door, tape our mouths in public, lay down in front of PBS stations 
while they are taken off the air, shroud the corporate art, as well? Close the 
doctors offices that women need, close the hospitals for a day to protest 
insurance rape? While the CEO's of those companies do not share any of their 
money for NPR & the NEA?
  Totally devoid of the arts, where we will be a world where the dictatorship 
has it as the poor and under-educated or the rich (alas, I am one of the 
middle-class that will be too poor to be rich) linked in a Beirut-esque 
landscape... and what country do you think will save us from this dictatorship 
of the Bush/Cheney regime?

  I digress. The actual point is that I thought Issakson would try to be more 
of a moderate. I wasn't paying attention. So now here is some one I once knew 
defending such an obviously corrupt Administration, all of them such proclaimed 
God-loving/fearing people, and I see someone who sold his soul, the one he 
pretended to have.

  This is a turning point for me. I am thoroughly, OMFG mad. The anger now has 
a clearly defined face. He's local.
  I fancy him falling a long, long way down, as in a political cartoon, off a 
short stool. The stool arrogant people use to be somebody. And all of his new 
friends falling with him.
  And I have to tell him this.

  Marscha 

  On Jun 22, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Allen Welty-Green wrote:


    OMFG! Did you REALLY expect him to give a flip? I won't even waste my 
energy with Issakson and Chambliss - they're no more than Bush's little lap 
dogs. What's the point???

    W wants to reduce the deficit huh? the one HE created with his illegal and 
unjust war? He wants to enforce "spending limits" huh? The sort of limits he 
"enforced" in Iraq? We - and our our children - are going to be paying for 
Bush's folly, and our own selfishness and short-sightedness as a nation, for 
many, many years. Makes me want to puke. "F" the President.

    Just had to vent...

    AWG

    On Jun 21, 2005, at 11:37 PM, D. Patton White wrote:


      I wrote directly to the good Senator, urging him to vote for the full 
funding for the CPB/PBS, and this is the response I received from him.
       
      D. Patton White
      Artistic/Administrative Director
      Beacon Dance
       
      -----Original Message-----
      From: senator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:senator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
      Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:24 PM
      To: patton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      Subject: A Response From Johnny Isakson
       
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      Dear Mr. White

      :

        
      Thank you for contacting me regarding your concerns over the President's 
FY06 Budget Proposal.

      I am glad I have the chance to respond.
        
      The President has presented a budget to Congress reflecting his top 
priorities for this country: reducing the deficit, defending the homeland, 
fighting and winning the War on Terror, promoting higher standards in schools, 
pushing pro-growth policies to produce millions of new jobs, and taking 
additional action to enforce spending discipline. The President's budget 
balances domestic and international funding to meet the needs of our nation 
while reigning in spending to reduce the federal deficit.

        
      First and foremost, I support the President's efforts to reduce the 
Federal deficit and balance the budget. We need to treat the federal budget 
like the family budget and live within our means. I believe the President's 
budget is a step in the right direction. It is important to remember, however, 
that the President's proposal is only the starting point in the process. His 
proposal serves as a guideline for Congress to consider when developing the 
actual budget. I understand your concerns and will continue to monitor the 
status of these important programs throughout our budget discussions. 

      Sincerely,
      Johnny Isakson
      United States Senator

      For future correspondence with my office, please visit my web site at
      http:// isakson.senate.gov/contact.cfm
       
       
       

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