Dear Senator Coleman:
Thank you for your format letter response to my email request that failed to get you to vote against the $700 Billion bail out plan because it is a plan that sacrifices competency to incompetency and as such makes it a monument to injustice.
Since the only legitimate function of government is to protect its citizens from thugs; thugs foreign and thugs domestic, your comments in your letter that suggest you are going to protect me from greedy individuals, mismanager individuals and loser financial regulator politicians is missing the point by such a wide margin that I don’t think I want you representing me any longer in the Senate.
I had wanted to vote for you in the upcoming election but now I can’t.
I understand your frustration (I’m speculating here that since you understand my frustration that you too are probably frustrated) that we, the people, elected you to represent us but now are treating you as if you should respond to every political event by deferring to your email generated consensus. Consensi that could only leave you feeling that you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
This consensus expectation may be true of my fellow citizens (but of course in this particular bail out instance it might not either) but it isn’t true of me.
Had you responded in your form letter that you were going to work to ferret out the graft and corruption inside the political class (e.g., Freddie and Fannie) I would have been excited for a moment about my prospects of being able to vote for someone who is interested in protecting me from domestic political thugs.
But alas you did not so respond, so goodbye and sorry you won’t be reelected but I’m sure you’ll do fine—land on your feet and all that, given that one can’t get elected to the United States Senate without having something on the ball.
Sincerely yours,
Gary Deering
St. Paul, Minnesota
PS
I fear that my last statement about what it takes to get elected is going to be rendered forever false and erroneous this election go around because Al Franken is probably going to win. So think about this Mr. Coleman, you now have this ugly fact on your head: you are (probably) going to be responsible, single-handedly, for electing Al Franken to the US Senate. But if it’s any consolation to you, you are just being one of the boys and girls when it comes to being a current day Republican as you will have something in common with McCain and Palin who will have something in common with you. They will have the ugly fact on their heads that by the same method, that is, by default, they will (probably) be responsible for electing the first black purist BM (Bureaucratic Mentality) to be President of the United States of America. (I was going to say, first ever purist BM but that “honor” goes to President Jimmy Carter.)
The Republican’s “maverick” duo had a golden opportunity to be against the bail out plan based on sound, outside-the-square, supportable economic principle but instead they accepted their party’s slogans and bromides and backed the plan and as a result stood out in the degree of their anti-maverickness much in the same way what’s his name brothel-soliciting, prostitute-chasing preacher (Jimmy Swaggart? there’s been so many I’m not sure which one to name, or am I thinking of some former New York Politician here? or both?) stood out in his preaching against “sin” day-after-day-after-boring day until even the least intelligent among us could see the hypocrisy of it all.
Damn it! where are all the leaders—not on strike I hope—as I would love to vote for one, but alas this may be the second time I have to vote noa (none-of-the-above), by not voting. (Here for first time noa vote.)
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