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Hope you had a rotten vacation. I was too broke and too idle to take any serious time off from my moribund business. I spent most of August grieving for the tortured, the displaced, the unemployed, the indebted, the illiterate, the sick, the hungry, the imprisoned, and the other victims of malfeasant government. On our watch, yours and mine.I hope (vainly, as I learn again and again) that I'm discharging my duty as a citizen by telling you your duty as my representative. If you're doing your job, you're compiling an agenda. If these items aren't near the top, you still have some work to do:
Impeach the president and vice president
Take our soldiers out of harm's way
Recompense the victims of our government's wanton destruction of New Orleans
Ask unanswered questions about what happened on 9/11/2001
End torture and punish torturers
Free prisoners who are held without legal process
Prosecute conspirators in the political corruption of U.S. attorneys
Clean your own house and repudiate corrupt congressmen, like Lewis, and corrupt practices, like "earmarking"
Assess the damage done by the past few Congresses (including this one) and devise a strategy to reverse it
Announce that you're quitting after this term as a duty of honor and your acknowledgement that we need to begin anew.
My agenda goes on, but those are my top ten.
