June 3, 2007
by Steve Osborn
My wife and I received in the mail today, a letter from Nancy Pelosi, asking for donations for a matching funds program for their next election. The letter tells us of all the wonderful things the Democrats have accomplished since their re-election. The letter came with a self-addressed postage free envelope, and some sample checks for us to fill out! It looks like it may be a national campaign. They call it the"Million Dollar March." Wheee!
We've had it up to here with lies and obfuscation. We have just written a letter to send back in the postage free envelope and I'll include a copy for your perusal. Perhaps those of you who are registered Democrats or who have been, will get similar begging letters. I suggest you use this forum to give them a piece of your mind. If you agree with our letter, feel free.
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Nancy Pelosi, Speaker:
You must be out of your mind, asking us to fall for your lies again! We elected and re-elected Democratic candidates to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and to clean up the cesspool that Washington D.C. has become. We asked you to impeach and remove the war criminals from their posts; Cheney, Bush, and the whole gang.
We asked for the return of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, intact and functioning, to the Halls of Government. We asked for the return of habeas corpus. We asked for the misnamed Patriot Act to be terminated. We asked for an end to imperial ambitions for the United States. We asked for an end to torture and gulags. We asked that the runaway Pentagon budget be trimmed and the money saved be put back into critical services for the people. We asked for an end to illegal surveillance of the American people.
What have we gotten for our votes and support? You've given Bush still more dictatorial power, should he desire to use it. We are all at risk of becoming "enemy combatants" at the whim of Bush and his minions, for the crime of speaking out, defending the Constitution, appearing at a protest.
You've given him an almost open budget to prosecute his illegal war, you've caved in on setting any deadline to get out. You have refused to forbid him to start yet another disastrous war with Iran or Syria.
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You've blithely condemned a minimum of two thousand more of our kids to die and another ten thousand to be maimed in mind and body, just so you can play political games for another year. You tied the minimum wage bill into this travesty, where people will not get their much vaunted increase until 2009, and at that, only in dribbles of a few cents more each year.
Then you have the unmitigated gall to trumpet how much you have accomplished!
Millions of us have signed the pledge not to vote for anybody who has voted to prolong the war. We won't! Prepare to return to private life, for as representatives of the people, you are a total failure.
And then you have the unmitigated gall to ask for more money? I wouldn't give you the sweat off my brow, let alone any other part of my anatomy.
We will look for people to really represent us. Take your ill-gotten gains and get out! The only reason you won't impeach is that you are afraid it will come back to bite you, and we hope to God it does.
With complete contempt and disgust,
Steve and Adrienne Osborn
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Of course, if you think they have lived up to their promises and shown great courage in Washington, why by all means write them a check.
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Stephen M. Osborn [send him email] is a freelance writer living on Camano Island in the Pacific Northwest. He is an "Atomic Vet." (Operation Redwing, Bikini Atoll 1956, ) who has been very active working and writing for nuclear disarmament and world peace. He is a retired Fire Battalion Chief, lifelong sailor, writer, poet, philosopher, historian and former newspaper columnist.
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