Dear Mr. President,
Magnificent! Your State of the
Union message was just what this country needed to hear… moving this country
forward for all Americans, united, rather than divided.
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| Always reaching across the aisle |
My last letter on January 3rd
talked about the three years you’ve spent reaching across the aisle asking and
hoping for Republican cooperation… and even now, in the State of the Union
address, you are once again asking the Republicans to work with you, to send
you legislation that you can sign to help lift the American people out of the
abyss we’ve been mired in for far too long. Asking both Democrats and
Republicans to work together for the ‘common good’ of all people, regardless of
their party affiliation.
I hope it happens. I hope the
Congress listens the words you spoke, the ideas you put forth, and the future
you proposed, without twisting those words and ideas into something malevolent
and unrecognizable. For once I’d like to hear some consensus, on the premise
that they can and should be doing more to move America forward.
Unfortunately, I doubt that we
will experience much movement in a positive direction. As I watched my local
news at 11:00 last night, I listened to 3rd Congressional District
Republican Dan Lungren, respond when asked by a reporter, what he thought of
your speech. His response was totally negative, suggesting that you didn’t even
mention how we were going to pay down the deficit. Apparently, he and I
listened to a different speech. You did, in fact, mention the debt and how
nearly $1 trillion will be added to that debt if we continue to give tax breaks
to the wealthiest 2%, and if we don’t close the tax loopholes, but I guess
that’s not what Lungren wanted to hear… so he didn’t.
Today I watched a YouTube video
Lungren put up when he got back to his office in Washington, with a much more
scripted response… however, after saying how he ‘likes you very much,’ he then lambasted
your policies, saying they are inconsistent with the facts and what he sees
back home, and that you described “an economy that was going gangbusters.” I
believe what you actually said was “the state of the union was getting
stronger, and we’ve come too far turn back now.” It’s exactly this type of bombastic,
irresponsible, exaggerated rhetoric that has created the gridlock in
Washington, and divided this nation and it’s people.
I live in the district that
Lungren represents and I see positive growth all around me, we have new stores
opening up in Folsom adding hundreds of ‘new’ jobs that weren’t there before…
and LAFCO voted 6 days ago to allow Folsom to grow by 3500 acres for development
that includes businesses, schools, homes, parks… etc… Folsom is a trade area
that is growing at twice the national average, so don’t listen to the Lungren’s
who claim to “like you very much”… because with friends like this, who needs
enemies?
Stay positive Mr. President,
because neither success nor greatness will be found in your power, prestige, or
your position… but instead, it will be found in your humility, your service, your
goodness, and your character, which you have in abundance.
Most Respectfully,
Marcia Reimers
Your Gadfly Granny
If the republicans cared more about the country than they do about defeating President Obama we would all be a lot better off. It would be wonderful if they would work with the President for a change instead of always working against him. I have a difficulty understanding that logic.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree Mr. Bothell, and the reason you have trouble understanding that logic is because it isn't logical. Republican's say they want to work with the President, but their actions show otherwise. I know the actions and votes of my Congressman, and they are almost all obstructionist votes to maintain the status quo. Sad, and demoralizing, but we can change that by giving the President a majority in 2012. Cheers
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