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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTO: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
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Madam:
I understand that you are calling on incoming House GOP campaigns chief Tom Emmer and the rest of the leadership team to determine what went wrong for Republicans in the 2018 midterms.
I think I can help you out here, because the answer seems pretty bleedin obvious. But then you Republicans arent as quick on the uptake as the rest of the population.
The most glaring problem you have is your pResident you know, the guy whos under investigation for all sorts of nefarious deeds. He kept insisting that the midterms were all about him (isnt everything?), and voters responded accordingly.
This might surprise you, but the majority of the citizenry dont think a lying, thieving crook should be running the country, nor do they believe that his GOP enablers should be in office. Given how spineless elected Republicans in congress are, and how derelict they have been in carrying out their Constitutional duty to act as a check on presidential power, it should be apparent why so many of them were kicked in the ass and told to go home.
Your party has proven itself more than willing to ignore the middle-class it invariably pretends to champion and many voters have finally woken up to that indisputable fact. In the past two years, your party has blown up the deficit in order to give massive tax-cuts to the wealthy, and is now threatening to gut Medicaid and social security. Just how many working people do you think are on-board with that bullshit? Try thinking it through.
Your pResidents tariffs are causing prices to go up, and businesses are failing as a result. How many farmers who are losing their farms do you think lined-up to vote for the party that caused their predicament? How many business owners do you think rushed to the polls to ensure that their Trump-enabling congress critters could continue to put them out of business? Seriously, maam this isnt rocket science. Its Common Sense 101 and your party is failing the course.
There are a lot of Americans who are way too intelligent to buy into the GOP shtick about being on their side, when the only side thats benefiting is the side who needs write-offs for their private jets.
There are a lot of Americans who see kidnapping migrant children from their parents and putting them in cages is NOT only unacceptable it is an outrage that goes against everything we stand for as a nation.
There are a lot of women voters who refuse to support a party that consistently treats them as second-class citizens, whose dominion over their own bodies is something to be decided by old white men. And the fact that your pResident is a self-proclaimed pussy-grabber hasnt exactly endeared you to females across the country. Good lord, is this really news to you? Exactly whose ass have you had your head buried in for the past two years, a position which has rendered you ignorant beyond belief?
There are a lot of young voters who dont understand why they are at risk of being gunned-down in their classrooms because Republicans are in bed with the NRA, or why climate change which will affect their generation more so than any other is being ignored by a party allegedly looking out for their best interests.
There are a lot of citizens who have watched your party look the other way while your racist-in-chief sows division and encourages violence, while he throws around terms like shithole countries and lauds Nazis and white supremacists as very fine people.
Seriously, maam, I dont understand why YOU dont understand what is causing your party to haemorrhage members and lose elections. It seems pretty obvious to everyone with a functioning brain but perhaps therein lies your problem.
The vast majority of American voters despise the party that kow-tows to a pResident who in turn kow-tows to our enemies. It should have been apparent to you from day one that voters wouldnt come out in droves to support Putins bitch, the idiot who tweets incoherent nonsense 24/7, the self-serving narcissist who is being investigated for among other things putting his own financial welfare above the well-being of his country, and the world at large.
But if you insist on having a heart-to-heart discussion with your party colleagues as to why you are quickly becoming politically toxic, by all means do so. And while youre at it, you might look at who in your party has been sleeping with the enemy, who in your party has Russian-sourced money to be explained away, who in your party has benefited from turning a blind eye to your pResidents oh-so-obvious corruption.
The fact that you actually need to have the bleedin obvious spelled out for you is just another reason why your party is crumbling before your eyes. You just dont get it and obviously never will.
We saddled the middle-class with debt in order to give tax breaks to the rich, we continue to enable an idiot who is destroying our former standing as a world leader, and were still defending the ludicrous lies of a pResident whose only priority is saving himself from winding up in prison for his crimes.
Face it, honey thats not a winning strategy. And the idea that you need that to have that pointed out to you and your colleagues demonstrates just how incredibly clueless you really are.
--- NanceGreggs (US citizen, registered Democrat, consistent voter, and person who knows the difference between Shit and Shinola)
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Cha
(295,921 posts)susanna
(5,231 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,039 posts)We need to kick some "bothsides" (alleged) journalists to the curb with their GOPer buddies, too.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)and I can tell you that she doesn't know because she's an honest to goodness idiot! She also lacks the spine necessary to lift her head up and look around to see what's going on. She refuses to show up for town halls and does what ever she can to avoid her constituents. I seriously can't stand this woman.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Covered all the bases. Thanks.
KelleyKramer
(8,851 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Theyre selling out the country for money and power.
Stop taking money from rightwing billionaires .
BSdetect
(8,989 posts)Gothmog
(143,999 posts)SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)The Wizard
(12,482 posts)a movie called " A Farce Writing Itself." This is what minority ruled government looks like. They're still in denial about the midterms. We have people in Congress with thought disorders. We have a chief executive who gets exposed daily as a mental defective. It's as if they ate the brown acid Wavy Gravy warned about at Woodstock.