Russ Carnahan Invites 1,000s to Join Him on a Conference Call

Yesterday the call went out to thousands of people to be sure to pick up the phone this evening for a conference call with Representative Russ Carnahan. Sure enough, at 6:45 the call came. It wasn't Russ on the phone, just his recorded voice saying to stay on the line to "get in on the call." You could ask questions but you had to push "0" to ask a question.

Listening for a few minutes, the theme of the calls was, "Don't allow imports, manufacture everything here, and the economy will be fine." Sounds simple enough. Limit our freedom to buy goods from where we wish and all will be OK.

I wanted to push "0" and ask, what if the stuff made here is more expensive? Will people still buy it? Or will the economy just stagnate further? I also wanted to ask about the excessive spending, what will he, Russ Carnahan, do about runaway inflation? What about energy? Will he allow more oil to be produced? Is he going to increase our cost of living through Cap and Trade? Is he going to allow this burden to crush our economy again?

I was going to push "0" and ask my questions but it was apparent the call was a setup. They were only going to allow questions to show his point of view so I turned on O'Reilly.