You Must Be Kidding: the Email Reply I Sent to Harry Reid

An email I received from Sen. Harry Reid, and the reply I sent him:

Subject: Humming

On 10/7/2008 11:06 AM, "Sen. Harry Reid" wrote:

Dear Elayne,

The difference between real change and more of the same is a filibuster-proof Senate. Without it, Barack Obama's hands will be tied.

Democrats are leading in six Senate races for Republican-held seats. We're close in five more.

That filibuster-proof majority is in reach, but all of us have to do our part. The DSCC needs another $2.5 million - raised $5 and $10 at a time - before Friday to fight the lies and keep our campaigns humming next week.

Senator Harry Reid

Dear Harry,

You must be kidding. You let the criminals rob the treasury on the way out, and you want money from us?! The people you've bankrupted with your lack of oversight and now your lack of foresight? All you had to do, instead of falling for the "Weapons of Cash Destruction, hurry-up-and-pass-it lie" AGAIN, was to hold a worldwide press conference and say, "You know this plan is bad, for your banks and for our country. We will have a new president in a month. We will have a new plan in a month, and we give you our word that we will act to protect your countries' economies as well as ours, but we must ask you to hang on for just one more month."

Everyone knows Bush is the Boy Who Cried Wolfowitz, except you. Eight years of allowing the Ponzi Real Estate Pyramid schemes on your watch, and you couldn't hold out four more weeks. Instead, you made a mockery of checks and balances (which will now be known as BLANK CHECKS and NO BALANCES), of oversight, of review, of our votes, and you let them empty the coffers completely this time to insure that the next president (probably a Democrat) will not have the money to implement one single plan for America, insuring the return to power of the Karl Rove Traveling Dinner Theater Players in a mere four years.

"Barack's hands will be tied if we don't have a filibuster-proof senate"? His hands, wallet, and pockets are now empty thanks to you, meaning there will be no money for health care reform, college loans, social security, Medicare, and infrastructure repair. What is there to filibuster, which party gets to turn out the lights? Bush and Co. are now treasury robbing equals with every African dictator and every banana republic shyster, and no doubt Laura Bush has three thousand pairs of shoes in her closet. The only reason I am even leaving my house on election day is to prevent the Supreme Court from becoming the DAR, as we know YOU won't stand up to any right wing ideologue put up for a vote by a Republican president. Other than that, my days of caring, volunteering, contributing to the pathetic and corrupt DEMOCRATIC party (we already knew that about the Republicans) are over. I am not going to waste another second of the time I have left on this earth paying attention to anything anyone in government ever says again. You are a disgrace to this country, and no better than the Bush Regime for what you let them perpetrate on the people who sent you to Washington to REPRESENT us. You are NOT the House of Representatives, you are the House of Horrors. My life's work is animal rescue (www.tailsofjoy.net). Thanks to your non-existent policies regarding animal welfare, and thanks to your criminally negligent policies spurring foreclosures, every dedicated volunteer is spending every penny she/he has left trying to prevent the obscenity of the ten million companion animals killed by the government each year in America from becoming twenty million killed this year. Good luck to us. By now Americans know their money is better given to dogs than senators.

You need ONLY "$2.5 million before Friday" to keep your campaigns "humming"? You rape the treasury, announce it "might not work but we had to do "something,'" and you are disconnected enough from our horror to breezily use the word "humming"!!?? How about another trillion to keep Iraq "tidy," or another hundred billion to "perk up" Afghanistan? What's in the air you are breathing in the capital, cartoon ink? Francoise Giscard D'Estaing once said, "We will only have true equality when we have mediocre WOMEN in high positions". Well, at least you've achieved something. Regards to Ms. Pelosi. Car mechanics say, "It could be thousands to fix, but I can try this first for fifty bucks. It might not work but we'll see." Nobody but the lunatics running the asylum say, "It's a trillion dollars AND it might not work." You are not fixing MY car, and you are not my party. Take me off your lists, and go away. No, really. Go away.

Elayne

Comments

[acupunk62]

Great letter! Thanks for catching the rage I feel at the sellout Dems. Time for a new Democratic Party built on real progressive values and common sense. I'm not going to hold my breath...

[kegbot1]

Elayne that was pure poetry of righteous rage.

Every word rings true. Thanks for sharing.

[dexxjones]

BRAVO! i feel the SAME WAY! the only money that i will be donating, going forward, it so TRUE progressive candidates. i wouldnt give one single penny to ried, pelosi or any other cowardly traitor who enabled this latest travesty.

impeachment off the table?

bailout? rescue? who cares when the day after we find out about TWO RETREATS (one already passed and one schedules) and THEN another 80 billion to bail out AIG AGAIN?

and NOTHING for the taxpayers being thrown out of their HOMES?

these people could be on fire and i wouldnt piss to put them out. donataion my ARSE!

[VideoHammer]

Please stop beating around the bush and say what you mean.

[Sneaky]

Given the illustrious performance of the Democratic congress-critters these last two years, I am very curious to see how voters will swing this fall. Republicans are pissed at the RNC's choice of candidates, but will likely still be voting Republican. I wonder if anyone has polls up for how Democratic House candidates (is it just the House or also the Senate?) are doing relative to Republican House candidates?

[fairwitness]

Very nice, Elayne. You spoke our frustration perfectly.

[timinhi]

Ooh, Elaine--Do you think Stephanie Miller will invite you to guest host her show again, given the views you stated here? I stopped listening months ago when Steph & Co. let it be known they were absolutely in the tank for Barrack and launched a campaign of insults against Hillary. If you DO guest host, it would be so cool if you could get Harry on as a guest so we could actually hear his response to your diatribe (which I totally agree with, incidentally). George Washington and many other of the founding fathers were against allowing political parties in our system, exactly for the reason that we would end up with the situation we now have. They envisioned a political system in which all candidates and elected representatives were "independent," not beholden to a particular group's agenda are policies. As a practical matter, we're stuck with what we have. Adding additional "third-parties" wouldn't change things appreciably because their members would also follow each other lockstep like sheep. Insisting that all Democrats completely follow a "progressive" or "far left" agenda is also not a solution. Better than half Americans would not agree with such an agenda and trying to force them would just further alienation. I don't have a solution, but I'm just as frustrated as you with a government that freely doles out corporate welfare, and throws trillions at the military industrial complex, while sitting back and allowing millions to live in tents in our city parks.