Dear Mr. President \u2013<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a while since I last wrote, almost two years in fact.\u00a0 I have to say, it\u2019s been a long while coming.\u00a0 You\u2019ve accomplished quite a lot, and for most of that I am pretty appreciative.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s this thing, though, that keeps cropping up.\u00a0 It\u2019s been really bothering me, and although I\u2019ve tried to set my feelings aside, I have to talk about it.\u00a0 For starters, please don\u2019t get me wrong, I still think you\u2019re an okay guy.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s that thing, you ask?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s this.<\/p>\n
Bipartisanship.<\/p>\n
It keeps cropping up.\u00a0 More accurately, you seem to be letting it get in the way of accomplishing things.\u00a0 What bothers me about this, and from what I understand it bothers a lot of other people, too, is that you just seem to be a little too nice to the people who want to destroy us.<\/p>\n
See, the problem here is that I didn\u2019t vote for the Tea Party back in 2008.\u00a0 They\u2019re out of their gourds, and they\u2019re pretty damned stupid, to boot.\u00a0 I mean, let\u2019s be serious here \u2013 Michelle Bachmann needs a long-sleeve jacket\u2026and I mean a really long-sleeved one, see?\u00a0 I\u2019d be surprised if she could spell \u201ccollege,\u201d much less ever have attended one.\u00a0 John Boehner is in the same boat \u2013 probably a bit smarter, but what he lacks in stupid he makes up for in dishonesty.\u00a0 And Mitch McConnell?\u00a0 Does the guy have an honest bone in his body?<\/p>\n
And yet, when issues come up \u2013 there they are, yammering away, and you seem to just go along with it.\u00a0 Now granted, I liked the whole \u201cHey, sorry, assholes, I was busy nailing bin Laden to a tree.\u201d\u00a0 That was good.\u00a0 But this entire business of worrying about the debt and listening to the GOP talking points as if they had some sense\u2026let\u2019s face it, Mr. President, they\u2019ve got all the sense of a deer standing in front of a truck.\u00a0 Their top candidate, John McCain, had to have an aid whisper in his ear \u201cUh, sir, that economy thing \u2013 that\u2019s where the other people, the ones who don\u2019t have eleven houses, they live there \u2013 well, that economy thing, it\u2019s in the shitter.\u201d\u00a0 This was their candidate for the Presidency, sir.\u00a0 Supposedly the best they had to offer.<\/p>\n
And he didn\u2019t have a freaking clue.\u00a0 He was so completely oblivious, that when it struck him, he stupidly asked for a halt to the campaigning so he could appraise himself of the situation.<\/p>\n
Now, the GOP is using the same playbook on you that they used on Clinton.\u00a0 Jabber about how bad the deficit is, as if they have any fiscal sense whatsoever.\u00a0 Allow me to point out, sir, what you have failed to do:\u00a0 that deficit is all theirs.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t bitch in the slightest when it was their coke-head drunkard of a President running up the bill.\u00a0 They have no right to complain at all<\/em> about it now, when it has become necessary to run a deficit in order to put people back to work, pay unemployment, and get some grease on the wheels of the economy.<\/p>\n It would make a world of difference to me, and to many like me, if you were to stand up and say something along the lines of:<\/p>\n \u201cLadies and gentlemen, for the past few months we\u2019ve been regaled by the Republican leadership about the hazards of the national deficit, and the overall magnitude of the debt.\u00a0 And well we should hear it from them, who are responsible for it.\u00a0 They have not only told us all about it, but they have also blocked every effort we have made to jump-start this economy and get people back to work<\/em>, instead focusing their attention on union-busting and calling for every citizen of the US to take the punishment for the actions of a select few, whose reckless gambling and insane spending habits have pushed this country to the brink of bankruptcy.\u00a0 And now they play political gamesmanship with your financial future again, threatening to let the country go bankrupt unless they get their tax breaks for the very people who caused this fiasco in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n You can then detail a few of their choicer idiocies, which I\u2019m sure your staff can drum up for you.\u00a0 Or you could call Jon Stewart, he\u2019s got tons of them.\u00a0 Four nights a week.<\/p>\n Then, you can deliver your knockout punch:<\/p>\n \u201cYou see, my fellow Americans, these people don\u2019t believe we can make it.\u00a0 They don\u2019t believe you deserve to retire gracefully.\u00a0 They don\u2019t believe you deserve to maintain your health and dignity, regardless of age.\u00a0 They have theirs, and they\u2019re happy to see you swing in the wind.\u00a0 But we will not allow that to happen.\u00a0 We, my fellow Americans, we will succeed in spite of them and their political hostage-taking.\u00a0 I am here to put in front of you a new plan for revitalizing our nation\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n And then you put forward the highlights of your plan to take the savings from ending our two off-books wars, ending of the Bush-era tax cuts, a re-direction of a major chunk of our military budget, and phase those monies into national infrastructure projects, aimed at shoring up the elements of our country that the GOP has foolishly allowed to decay \u2013 new roads, new bridges, new energy, new airports (with lots of new air traffic controllers), new rail systems.\u00a0 The things that will not only provide jobs in and of themselves, but will enable existing companies to get their goods to new markets faster and more efficiently, giving our economy not only the immediate jolt it needs to roll again, but also to provide the long-term benefit that will return us to being the powerhouse we were.<\/p>\n Now I know this kind of confrontation isn\u2019t new to you \u2013 after all, you handed that pack of jackasses their hats when you showed up at their little congressional invitational event.\u00a0 I expect you even enjoy that sort of thing.\u00a0 At least, I hope you do.<\/p>\n When you deliver this kind of message \u2013 the message I voted for, two years ago \u2013 then I suspect you\u2019ll see those poll numbers of yours take a good bit of a jump.\u00a0 Not only that, but you\u2019ll leave the GOP quaking.\u00a0 Because you own the facts on these issues, Mr. President.<\/em> They own squat.\u00a0 And calling them out on their lies is the one thing that will have them squirting their trousers faster than anything.<\/p>\n Those of us, the ones who have been waiting for the news, would really, really appreciate it.<\/p>\n It\u2019d give us something to think about this fall.\u00a0 Instead of staying at home and watching re-runs of whatever is on at the moment, we might spend some time thinking that the President we elected isn\u2019t afraid to kick the teeth in on a bunch of treasonous Republicans who\u2019d rather throw the rest of us under the bus in order to grease their own wallets.<\/p>\n Hell, we might even come out of the house this November and vote \u201cD\u201d on our ballots.<\/p>\n Sincerely yours \u2013<\/p>\n T<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Mr. President \u2013 It\u2019s been a while since I last wrote, almost two years in fact.\u00a0 I have to say, it\u2019s been a long while coming.\u00a0 You\u2019ve accomplished quite a lot, and for most of that I am pretty … Continue reading