Dear Madam Speaker,
I think the effort to sneak in funding for ACORN and other groups by siphoning future revenues (if any) from the taxpayer purchase of all this toxic debt was underhanded and despicable. I guess there is never a crisis within which you can't try to pack in a little pork, huh? Even if that provision is dumped as it should be, I suspect that "plan B" will be the American taxpayer buying up all those junk mortgages so you can campaign on and pass legislation to forgive all those mortgages in exchange for votes down the line... mortgage amnesty should be a big vote-getter, huh?
But what I really find disgusting is the pathetic excuse that somehow House Republicans "blew up" a deal that they had no part in, and for which your colleagues in the house would not need a single Republican vote to pass if the "deal" you supposedly had with the Senate was such a great idea. After all, when up until now have you ever given a hoot what the Republicans in your House have had to say in the past... even going so far as to kill the lights and C-Span cameras during the August recess so as to prevent the American people from getting their message as well. So, if you guys really had a deal that was so good why didn't you just pass it in the House on a party-line vote? Wasn't the whole financial system supposed to collapse if we didn't get a bill by yesterday? Apparently a little CYA for your party is even more important than timely passage of the legislation, huh? The right thing to do is the right thing to do, so why do you need to hide behind minority coattails?
With all due respect, I think you and the rest of your House and Senate majority leadership are a bunch of pathetic, feckless cowards, and I'm tired of your lies and excuses. If I were the Republican leader, especially after the way you treated my members to this point, I wouldn't agree to anything and force you into a party-line vote no matter what. You want to blow a trillion bucks and raise taxes on the middles class, which you and I both know is the only place you can get real money, go ahead and get started without us.
T. Doom Pickens
