Dear Madame Speaker,
How are you these days? Since I don’t imagine you’re devoid of thought or conscience, I suppose you’ve felt better. You’re probably choking down mountains of antacids, analgesics and sleep aids, and if by some chance you aren‘t, you certainly should be.
I know I’ve certainly enjoyed happier, healthier times, and I‘m not even protecting gangsters like you are! My problem? Washington’s cresting corruption has so filled me with bile that I can rarely put it from my mind. It‘s variably interfered with my work, recreation, sleep, digestion, heart rhythms - everything! Worst of all, whenever I write about or discuss this I fear I’m inviting myself to Gitmo. If you’ll please take my advice, I think that we and millions more will feel better and eventually enjoy brighter days.
Now I’m sure you know that lots of Americans - I’d wager most of us - are very unhappy with your job performance since around November 2006. Maybe you are too? I suspect you might even feel awful about it, ignoring us and our constitution to aid and abet a traitorous, tyrannical oligarchy. Really, it must stink to not only closely associate with torturous war criminals, but also to disgrace yourself by aligning with them and, in violation of your constitutional oath and the public trust, misuse your office to shield them from accountability. It may help you to know that while I’m justifiably angry with you for this, I’ve honestly given you the benefit of much doubt.
After all, I could presume that you’re simply rotten to the core, having sworn some secret allegiance to heaven knows who or what, but I’m more inclined to believe you’ve simply been stupid: on the take and trying to look cooperative and tough among reckless, soul-less war-mongers, clumsily and increasingly entangling yourself in the evil you now powerfully support and protect.
A while back you famously (and disingenuously) asked what crime(s) (p)resident Bush has committed. Since then (and as before,) many frustrated patriots have been intensely striving to give you anything from a clue to a sizable laundry list of Bush crimes. I could do the same, but I’m pretty sure you don’t need to be told what crimes Bush has committed. In fact, I’m pretty sure you know damned well how immoral, criminal and treasonous the Bush Administration has been, just like I’m pretty sure you know how treasonous the “rubber-stamp congress” was - and how complacent and therefore complicit YOUR congress is for failing to impeach. And I’m pretty sure you know damned well you have been lying to and stonewalling us, because whether by accident or design, I’m pretty sure you know you too have become quite culpable for the Bush Administration‘s crimes, and you rightly fear your own prosecution.
Regardless, I’m pretty sure that you, just like Bush, Cheney and the whole neo-con rogues gallery, have put your full faith in your corporate sponsors and their propaganda machines: Duping the masses to save your asses. That might work indefinitely, but don’t count on it. What will you do when your term ends? Are you counting on a pardon or will you simply hope to be pardoned? Will you just wait for the truth to catch up to you and go on trying to discount it? As a gang-member who already “knows too much,“ will you ever be safe from “suicide?” Why not buy some dignity and protection right now? Impeach the murderous vermin infesting the White House!
Really, how about calling off your ridiculous charade and cooperating with the good guys? Why not ask Congress and the people for whistleblower protection and leniency in exchange for your testimony and full press for impeachment? You could win these, turn yourself in and file a detailed deposition covering the whole Bush cabal, or at least what you know of it. After the fire you’d likely be a briefly rebuked hero - instead of the despised goat you’ve become and are otherwise destined to remain. If I was you and did these things, I’m pretty sure I would at least sleep and feel much better, as would the rest of the world.
Sincerely,
Donald Rankin III
