My new pen-pal, Barbara Boxer

Check this out. I got a response from Senator Boxer. Okay, the response was likely from an unpaid, blonde staffer working toward a degree in poli-sci or maybe communications at UCLA. She's probably doing a semester in DC, her first out of California and trying to decide if she should take the lucrative job as a pharmaceutical rep right out of college or spend another 60k on law school. She'll take law school after meeting some dark-haired boy from Massachusetts or Vermont who spends more time debating the value of government involvement in social services than talking about the next frat party. They'll hook up for a bit. He'll be slightly blinded, temporarily, by her happy, blonde Southern California spirit. She'll be smitten with his way of finding the gravitas in every situation. Then, as the semester folds in on itself, spitting our blonde hottie into the summer, they'll both decide to scrap the plans they had to travel through Europe together because she wants to party on the Greek Islands, and he would like to check out the situation in Belarus.

Ah, young, political love. Lucky for me, even in the throes of her first relationship with an East Coast boy, our unpaid intern found the time to punch up a communique assuring me that Boxer is, indeed, on the march to admonish the President. It's just going to be a quiet march, it seems.

Now, where the hell is my response from Feinstein? Geez. Aren't there enough cutie-pies to employ in DC to assure everyone a pen-pal in Washington?

Here's the letter:

Thank you for contacting me regarding Senator Russell Feingold's (D-WI) resolution to censure President Bush. I want to you know that I appreciate hearing from you, and I am a co-sponsor of this resolution.

On March 13, 2006, Senator Feingold introduced Senate Resolution 398, which would admonish President Bush for his unlawful authorization of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, his failure to keep Congress fully informed of this program as required by law, and his efforts to mislead the American people about the legality of the program and the legal authorities relied upon by his administration to conduct it.

The Feingold Resolution has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the request of Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA), and Senator Feingold has called for the Committee to hold hearings, debate, and then vote on the resolution. I share Senator Feingold's strong objections to the administration's warrantless domestic wiretapping program, and I intend to vote for Senator Feingold's resolution should it come before the Senate.

Again, thank you for writing me.


Barbara Boxer
United States Senator