Letter to a Senator

If you've ever been told to write to your congressional representatives, the time to do it is NOW. Our government is becoming more and more independent of the will of the American people, in effect creating a new class of elites that work with the corporations and interest groups to make decision for you that may really affect your lives. Get angry and do something. With no further ado, here's my letter to Senator Ben Nelson (D) - Nebraska, after he voted against de-funding America's #1 scumbag, Vice President Dick "The Dick" Cheney. You can read about the story here.

Stand up to the Vice President’s office!

Your inability to use your authority to pressure this secretive and corrupt VP is, to put it lightly, disappointing. The only way that this administration will comply with the will of the Congress, as elected representatives of the citizens of the United States is to apply the “power of the purse”.

By standing idly by and rubber-stamping this administration’s ridiculous and questionable expenditures, you are personally responsible for creating even more doubt and disapproval from the American people. This administration needs to be heeled in, like an aggressive and out of control dog. By failing to call the Vice President on the ridiculous idea that he is a separate entity from the Executive branch is nothing short of dereliction of duty.

I, like many Americans this decade, have been forced to have a dead reckoning with the political process in this country and can no longer care about your years of patriotic service, your length of Congressional tenure, who you are, were and what you’ve done for us in the past. Today, you failed the American people. You stepped carelessly aside at your post as a sentry at the gates to the Congressional treasury.

I know that some people may have seen this attempt to de-fund the VP’s office as a cheap news headline ploy, but the venom and bile that Americans feel for this man and his shadowy, back-room operation requires dramatic action.

I can only hope that your inaction on this issue was because of a principled stance that hopes elevate political discourse in the country in spite of your opponents’ ruthless attempts to nickel and dime the political process until the American people are so frustrated and lost in the mess of national politics that they just tune out.

Please for the sake of the republic that we all cherish, stand at your post, speak out against this administration and this pointless war. Expose the wasteful expenses and unsustainable policy of this entire government. Let history remember you for taking a stand for true American values and against the status quo.

[my contact info]
Los Angeles, CA