Thank you for screwing over me and my family. I needed this Unemployment reauthorized, and because of you I will be giving notice to my apartment manager that I can no longer afford my rent and will be moving out. I, as a grown man, will have to take my wife and child and move in with my parents. I will now have to apply for food stamps for the first time. There's a time to worry about the deficit and a time to worry about the people. The deficit will not go homeless, the deficit will not starve. How could you care more about that than me. I am angry beyond belief. Please do not think that us voters are so stupid as to not remember who voted against the people when reelection time comes. Thank you Ben Nelson, because of your vote I am screwed.
As you may have read, the Unemployment standalone bill has been defeated tonight. It's on the front page of Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The bill failed 58 to 38, with Ben Nelson being the only Democrat voting against it (Besides Harry Reid who had to vote against it as a procedural measure in order to allow the bill to be voted on again)
This is getting harder and harder everyday to sit by and watch the entire Republican party screwing me and my family over. But what's even harder is having a Democrat but the final nail in the coffin.
The quote above is an email I sent the office of Ben Nelson. I doubt he'll read it, and I doubt he'd care. My one voice is easy to ignore, especially since I don't live in Nebraska. But what Ben Nelson does, has big effects on more than just Nebraska. While my one voice may not make a difference, I would hope that additional letters and calls would perhaps help put a human face on this struggle. You can contact Ben Nelson here:
http://bennelson.senate.gov/...
We need to have a clear target in who to blame on not getting this passed. Even Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins found it in their hearts to vote for this bill, yet Ben Nelson could not.
I am pissed off, and I don't know what else I can do. Forgive me if this Diary seems pointless or preaching to the choir, I just need to let some of my anger go. The way it looks to me now is like this:
Republicans are heartless, Democrats are spineless, and I am homeless.
Thanks for reading.
edit: I added a subtitle to my diary entry just in case people thought I was really thanking Ben Nelson.