Being Civil to Brian

Here is a letter I just wrote to Brian Baird of the 3rd Congressional Dist of Washington:

Congressman Baird,

I am writing regarding the Health Care, Health Insurance, Health (enter new idea here) reform that is gathering so much attention. I agree with you that this is a difficult and complex issue that requires a well though out plan to insure we are taking the correct path. My 2 greatest questions are:

1)Why are the President and the Democrat Legislators in such a rush to get this done now, instead of working to find the best solution? Your party has all the power and leverage right now. The Republicans could not prevent you from accomplishing anything right now. Yet you and your colleagues are demonizing Americans who are confused and upset, not by what you are trying to do but, by the tactics and reckless abandon you are displaying and the disregard you collectively have for the wishes of the American people.

2) With the government having spent more money than ever in its glorious history and having a deficit larger than the GDP of most of the countries in the world combined. How do you plan to pay for this? The government, my government has spent money at an unsustainable rate for the past 2 decades and if this happens we will lose our country and the liberties we (you) are taking for granted. Looking at the budget for the near future, we are scheduled to run a deficit in excess of everything we as a nation will produce. That concept brings so many adjectives to mind but, to me, the most fitting shameful.

You may inform all of your colleagues in the House of Representatives and the Senate that I will be working with a passion I have never known toward government to see that all of you are replaced in your next election. You as our leaders should have done better but you chose to be juvenile and think that Americans only see Red and Blue. We see all of the colors that make up our country. Democrats and Republicans have had our faith that you would do something different and both of you have sorely disappointed us. At least try to get this one correct.