It feels like I'll never get married.
I finally reached a "grand bargain" with my boyfriend/partner/roommate to have a wedding this year.
He gets a really nice ring and I get a major tax reduction.
Our wedding in Washington D.C. would be great... one of our favorite spots and many beautiful options to hold the wedding among the national parks, museums, and monuments.
Well, we all know how this turns out...
My wonderful congressman Michael McCaul was on Fox and Fiends
He has defined that the American people want a 1-year delay to ACA. Tell that to the 4M+ people that tried to sign up. As an American people, I don't want a delay. Talk to me. You are not speaking for me.
At 1:32 in the video which was recorded on September 29th, Mr McCaul says that one of his staff members tried to sign up for ACA and he was listed in the wrong state. So his logic is that we shut the entire government down because 1 person had invalid information.
But the exchanges didn't open until October 1, so how did his staff member get early access to try to sign up? (Pants-on-fire anyone?)
So my letter to Mr. McCaul
Subject:
Government Shutdown.
As you admit, the Republicans are shutting down the US government to extract a 1 year delay in ACA, which is signed law. The shutdown is on your shoulders.
Please don't justify your actions to shut down the US government because some of your constituents tell you the congress should abide by the laws they pass.
If you truly believed that, then where is your legislation to require members of congress to stop insider trading?
It doesn't exist.
Just like your end-game for this impasse does not exist.
Stop this now.
Vote to reopen the government without holding the ACA hostage.
You've lost my vote in the next election. And every day of this shutdown, I'll add more money to my budget to help fund your defeat in 2014.
Stop playing games with the American people. This is real for many of us.
Get out of your ivory tower and see what is really happening to food inspections, scientific research, S-chip, NASA, as well as people's everyday lives. Our wedding plans to be married in DC are now thrown out the window thanks to you and yours.
Please. Please stop this insanity.
Open the government and then fight to change ACA as the law allows... not by closing the entire government.
It is not your constitutional duty to break our government and destroy our society, yet that is what you and the rest of the tea-baggers are trying to do.
Please stop.
As McCain said, you're not rational.
Grow up and stop trying to destroy the American government and our recovering economy. This is all on your shoulders. Hope to not see you again in 2014.
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Cypress, Texas
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