A suggestion: There is one form of pressure on these congresscritters that we often overlook, and that is to get to the power behind the throne. In congress that means the money: campaign contributors. We can mount of boycotts of corporations if they give money to representatives are aren't representing. We can ask small businesses who contribute to use their influence to get the congressman to do the right thing.

A group called OpenSecrets.org is premier among the watchdogs who have put all this information on the Internet. You’d be surprised that it can make for interesting reading.

For example, take Artur Davis on the House Judiciary Committee, Democrat of Alabama. My curiosity got the best of me as my eyes ran down the list of the biggest contributors to his campaign, and I wound up googling McWane Inc. just for the heck of it. Wouldn’t you know it, McWane Pipe has one of the worst safety records in the country for its workers, over 4500 workers injured in its foundries between 1995 and 2003. We’re talking arms and eyes, hands, and many deaths. Now why would a company like that want to keep a U.S. congressman happy?

This impeachment website has the contact links for the top contributors to members of the House Judiciary Committee, all lined up and ready to go. Just click on the link like Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union, in the right hand column, and it takes you right to the email form where you can have your say. For the rest of the congressmen go to this OpenSecrets.org page The bottom line is the politicians don't like us poking around under the hood like this, learning who is giving them money, because the next question is "why?" That gets too close to how the sausage is made.