If you're like me, then these last few weeks have not been easy.
From where I sit, it looked to me like our President got knocked on his ass and might not get up.
I was afraid that he had lost his mojo and might not get it back.
Clearly, I was wrong.
After what I saw from our President today, I felt encouraged to put on the gloves and get back into it.
So, having received yet another e mail from my GOP/wingnut Congresscritter, Peter Roskam, I decided that I wasn't going to just delete this one.
Not this time.
Today I felt like fighting back...
First, here is what I received in my inbox from Peter Roskam:
Dear Brian,
In 2010, Americans want Congress to get serious about creating jobs, stopping out of control federal spending and lowering our massive national debt. Earlier this week, I wrote an op-ed saying just this for the Dailycaller.com. Click here to read it.
Last year, Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid brought us double-digit unemployment, fiscal recklessness, a mountain of debt for our kids and grandkids, and 9 months of national focus on passing a jobs-killing Cap & Trade Scheme and a government takeover of healthcare that would raise your premiums and your taxes.
Unfortunately, the State of the Union was a defense of a failed "stimulus" plan that didn’t bring us jobs, and a call for more of the same failed policies. Afterwards, I posted this on my Facebook wall:
"The President claimed tonight that millions of Americans have more money in their pockets because of his policy, and that folks are busy starting businesses? Not where I come from."
Do you agree?
Next, my reply:
Dear Representative Roskam:
I find your e mail to be patently false and disingenuous.
It was the policies of President Bush which helped bring the financial meltdown of 2008 and the subsequent bailout.
You seem to forget that our national debt doubled under the Bush presidency.
Another role model for conservatives, Ronald Reagan, nearly tripled our national debt during the time he was President.
I find your claims against President Obama to be hollow compared to the fiscal irresponsibility of the two conservatives I just mentioned.
If you were to publish a real plan to create jobs, I would love to read it.
I don't care to read your false accusations toward a President who is trying his hardest to clean up a mess left him by the previous Republican President and has found only obstruction and obfuscation from the Republican Party.
President Obama just today took apart many of the GOP's talking points in his Q&A session.
I suggest you try to work with him instead of tearing him down, or perhaps the voters in Illinois District 06 will need to find a Representative who better stands for their interests.
Sincerely,
Brian xxxxxx
Now, I suppose I could have done better by refuting Mr. Roskam's lies about healthcare reform being a government takeover, etc. but I wanted to keep it short, to the point, and readable.
Perhaps a staff member will read it, maybe they won't.
The thing is, I don't think that yesterday I would have bothered to answer this pile of bullshit that landed in my mailbox.
What I'm glad for today is that between President Obama's SOTU speech on Wednesday and his masterful Q&A session today, I feel energized.
I feel like I have some fight in me again.
True, I may want to see one hell of a lot more change than we have seen so far.
True, I disagree with more than one decision this President has made so far.
It is also true that President Obama has been knocked down but he just got back up swinging.
Today I did too.
So,thanks for the mojo, Mr. President.
Now, let's get it done!