Letter to the GOP – Drop Healthcare Repeal

While I may not disagree with every portion of the healthcare (Obamacare) bill, I do believe you do not pass a problematic, ill-conceived, and damaging bill ever, especially at this price tag. But instead of spending time in the current congress striking down a bill that can’t be stricken down, why don’t you focus on the other parts of your campaign promises? Why not expose some troubling parts of the bill, especially the parts that have nothing to do with healthcare? Focus on cutting spending in other areas — including your own staff – if nothing else than to prove your serious about your words, and not just looking to spew more rhetoric like your predecessors. Please?

GOP, don’t fail us now.

We The People righted the ship at the end of 2010. Not by handing the GOP one of the most sweeping wins in history, but by removing the single-party domination of Congress and the White House of the past 2 years. While those of us who do not subscribe to the two large parties would like to see other outcomes, the feeling among most was that we needed diversity between the Legislative and Executive branches in terms of party and ideology, and this was mostly accomplished in 2010.

Move on already.

If you don’t know by now about the shooting of nearly two dozen people in Tuczon, Arizona by a crazed lunatic, you probably ought to crawl back under your rock. This, like any mass-murder captures the nations’ attention and sympathy. But we need to move on, and quickly. Not because Americans have such a short attention span that they will resent this event from permeating their minds for too long. Not because healing needs to focus on the future. But because our politicians will turn this into a circus of political football.

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