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Dear Senator XXXXX:
Normally I wouldn't waste my time writing to you.
There are two reasons for this. First, there are only
so many slabs of non-responsive boilerplate you can
receive as a constituent before the real-life thrill
of contacting one's elected representative wears thin.
Second, it doesn't matter what I write or think or
say, because you're just going to go ahead and do
whatever the Farm Bureau or the NRA or James Dobson or
the NAM tell you to do anyway, which makes the whole
exercise rather . . . how shall I say this . . .
pointless. Even so, in light of the recent GOP
"response" to high gasoline prices, I had to drop you
a line and let you know just how you're doing.
The word which best describes your proposal to
distribute $100 in gas money to tens of millions of
American families is "pathetic". I could also employ
such adjectives as "pandering" and "clueless", but I
think "pathetic" really says it best. It's not just
the sheer futility of such an idea, since it would be
easier by far to simply cut a check to ExxonMobil and
eliminate the middleman. It's the utter uselessness
of such an idea that makes it such a sniveling,
pathetic little rag of a plan.
Are there other ideas out there that might actually
get us through the next few decades rather than the
next few weeks? Well, yes, but in all cases your
party has said no. Tighten CAFE standards to improve
fuel efficiency? No. Massively boost funding for bus
and rail rapid transit systems? No. Increase
spending for Amtrak, the only passenger rail system we
have, which now limps along on federal funding amounting to
less than 1/10th of the money you and your party propose to
throw away on a few tanks of gas? No.
Instead, what we get from you and your party instead
of an energy policy is the same tired old wheeze - tax
cuts and elimination of federal royalty payments for
oil companies and (of course) drilling in Alaska,
assuming that the drilling rigs wouldn't just fall
over in the melting permafrost. I will say this -
once you've found a dead horse, you just never stop
flogging it, which speaks highly of your determination
and stamina.
And now this idea - $100 to fill the tank two or three
times. Above and beyond everything else, the
implication of this proposal - that our votes can be
bought for $100 in gas money - is both insulting and
degrading.
Your campaign contributors may well know the price of
your services. Do not make the mistake of assuming
that we as citizens have a price, or that you know
what it is.
Yours sincerely,
hatrack
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