Falling on deaf ears.

Congress.org is a great website, really. I had visited there quite frequently around the time of the elections in November, and hadn't been there for a while but checked in yesterday. It does a great job of helping you located and contact your elected representatives in Washington, and in addition it provides a "Soapbox" for a bit of editorializing on any side of any issue. More discussion can only help lead to greater mutual understanding, I think. What it doesn't do very well is communicate to its visitors that, at best, it will only send your letter on to the recipient just as you could do yourself. George Bush is not online reading these letters and intervening in the problems of downtrodden individuals, but this desperate woman thinks he is. She's not the only one, and it makes me sad.