Sunday, May 18, 2008

Time Has Proven This Correct

April 6, 2007

Dear Senator ___________

Since I pay attention to voting records, I exclude you and Senator _______ as well as Representative ________ from this letter.

I think Congress has sinned mightily against those for whom they swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Words cannot express my disdain, disgust and repugnance for the House and the Senate. I am not alone. Senate and House ratings are in the toilet and the Speaker of the House works overtime to flush even that.

Congressional ratings approach single digits because the people have no respect for it. Congress has demonstrated no respect for the people or the law and are completely self serving while the leadership appears totally devoid of ethics, honor or respect.

Duty! Honor! Country! These stirring words of self sacrifice echo in the halls and hearts of America’s defenders. What stirring words echo in the halls of Congress where truth is commonly sacrificed for power, duty is subservient to self, honor a rare virtue and country comes after reelection, if at all?

There is a law called the Logan Act and it deals with those who conspire with foreign nations illegally. Nancy Pelosi and several others, both democrat and republican, have violated that law. Violation is a felony. You know what will happen to them? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! There will be no investigation, no hearing, nothing!

How can a Representative caught red handed with $90,000.00 in bribe money be seated by the House? There will be no trial and no sentencing! Has Congress no shame at all? Apparently Congress has slid a long way since Adam Clayton Powell.

Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, and Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, admitted using PUBLIC FUNDS to buy the votes of members of Congress via unrelated earmarks for wording in the Military Spending Bill meant to interfere with the Commander-in-Chief’s efforts in Iraq and put Americans at risk. Their attempted theft of funds was greater than the amount asked by the President to pursue the war. Their cowardly, backdoor meddling is a disgrace yet there will be no investigation, no hearing, nothing!

And didn’t Senator Diane Feinstein, ranking member on the MilCon Committee, recently get caught awarding millions of dollars in contracts to her husband’s company and affiliates? She merely resigned her position on the committee and still sits in Congress. Where is the investigation and trial for malfeasance in office? That IS what it is isn’t it? She deserves her day in court. All I hear from Congress is crickets chirping.

The President and the majority of both houses want to welcome millions of lawbreakers into this country with open arms and care not about the economic and social disaster that will be in terms of the cost of services and the destruction of American unity. E Pluribus Unum will be a thing of the past. America will be one nation divided into many with no common language. I hear the people scream “NO!”, yet I see the leadership on both sides of the aisle marching in lockstep to make it so, the law and will of the people be damned.

Senator, Representative and Congress used to be awe inspiring terms of honor and respect. They are now synonymous with poltroon, thief and liar and will remain so until those few statesmen in office with character and decency gather the courage to end and punish the injustice, indignity and dangerously un-American activities of their colleagues. Even the President has failed to insist that apparent treason be investigated and dealt with when it appeared from several venues.

The current Congress has proven itself neither mature enough, wise enough nor fiscally responsible enough to govern this nation. Neither was the last. When professional politicians can be, and are, bought and sold like slaves in the market place by their leadership it is a disgrace and an abomination. They should be standing before Gonzales instead of the other way around and under indictment. America deserves a new deal from a fresh deck.

What, specifically, Senator, will you do to bring to justice violators of national law and end threats to America’s security? What will you do to stop the ethical embarrassments to our country? Are you in the stands or on the field?

Sincerely,
William S. Fortner

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