An Open Letter To The Senate

Dear Senators,

You may think that because you somehow managed to pull the wool over a majority of eyes and were therefore elected to represent a segment of the American citizenry in Washington that somehow makes you “special”.  But let me put it to you in no uncertain terms:  YOU WORK FOR US.  All of us.  And the majority of Americans are hard-working, fair-minded and, when all is said and done, rather conservative in their beliefs.

That you fail to recognize this and have used closed doors and the cover of night to bully forward some progressive, banana-republic idea of “health care reform” for this country shows only one of two things.  You are incredibly stupid or you are egotistical beyond belief.  Either way, you are not worth what we pay you.  You weren’t sent to Washington to heap further destruction on an already tenuously-balanced economy (a teetering that is entirely your own fault, I might add); you weren’t sent to Washington to burden our children, our grandchildren and their children with crushing debt.  You were sent to provide a semblance of oversight to protect this country and, according to the United States Constitution, your ability to do so is extremely limited.  Yet like an untrained dog on a malfunctioning retractable leash, you ignore your master’s wishes and race forward to chase short-term re-election gains at the expense of the long-term welfare of the country.

Many of us watched Saturday’s gyrations in the Senate and listened to the reading of the “manager’s amendment” to the health care “reform” bill.  Unlike you, Senators, many of us actually read both bill and amendments as well, and the evil it contains is crystal clear.  At the tip of the iceberg stand unprecedented numbers of unelected bureaucrats waiting to be sent forth like hounds from the bowels of Hell itself to dictate when, where, and how Americans will receive their health care and in what beancounter-driven measure.  You intend to deliberately create criminals out of Americans who will not or cannot pay the tax penalties for not going along with your little freedom-stealing games and purchase health insurance, using the IRS as a means to jail them.  You intend to force every American who is pro-life to subsidize the abortions of those who would use it as a form of birth control. 

You asked the Congressional Budget Office to give you an accounting and you crow over its response, yet you conveniently ignore their wise caveats that unless your nefarious legislation is implemented exactly as stated (like the hundreds of billions in cuts from Medicare that have never yet happened), there will be no cost savings but instead a significant increase in our national debt.  And based on your reckless history of spending money you have not earned, including this inherently unconstitutional bill’s enormous pork payoffs in direct violation of Article 4, Section 2 of the United States Constitution simply to secure the votes of your hypocritical brothers and sisters, anyone who still believes a government that refuses to operate in broad daylight, let alone one who has bankrupted Medicare, Social Security, and even screwed up Cash for Clunkers is welcome to make an offer on a bridge I have for sale.  And speaking of those never-ending pork bribes so despised by Americans, it is time for it to become common knowledge that your overall day-to-day modus operandi of granting them continually violates Title 18, Part I, Chapter 11, Section 201 of the United States Code.

Listen carefully, Senators.  What you are proposing as a Christmas gift to the American people is a gift we can do without.  Like the Pentagon, we are not asking you for something we don’t need and we are extremely angry that you refuse to heed our wishes.  In fact, we see your behavior as bordering on treason.  You took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.  We, the people, pledge our allegiance to the Republic of these United States – not to you or any other person – and if you continue to refuse to do your job and don’t put a bullet in the brain of this bastard of a bill, then rest assured we will do ours.  You are by no means indispensible and we will find a replacement for you in short enough order.  (And when – not if – that happens, you might want to bless the compassionate wisdom of our Founding Fathers for the fact you won’t find yourself hanging at the end of a piece of piano wire on the Mall like your much-admired Il Duce found his own progressive self hanging in a square in Milan.)

Trust me.  We don’t need you.  And let me remind you that the latest polls show only 9% of Americans even want you.

The choice is simple.  The bill or your alleged career.

Regards,

A Responsible American