I have been thinking about doing a diary for quite a while, so I could vent a little on things that irritate me. When I received a letter from the Republican party, asking for a donation, it was the last straw! This is my first time, so I hope you will excuse any mistakes I make. Mind you, I never donated to a Republican, God forbid, but received the following letter from Senator Jerry Moran, Chairman. Totally shocked me. I scanned the letter into my computer, but was unable to figure out how to put the actual letter in here. I retyped most of it, so you can get a gist of it:
Dear John,
I checked again and our records say that you have yet to activate your 2014 NRSC Sustaining Membership, and I am hoping that if you make one gift all year to our party, that this is the one you make.
Here is why...first we have ripped up the old campaign playbook in favor of innovating. We are listening, we care and we are working non-stop to improve our voter ground game and win the Senate. With roughly 3 months to go, we are proactively making the wheels turn more quickly in all 36 races and here is the latest snapshot of how the NRSC is using support from members like you to fire Harry Reid:
* On Offense 24/7 in North Carolina: Kay Hagan is lugging around the anchor that only 30% of voters believe she deserves to be reelected as she attempts to be North Carolina's first incumbent Democrat, to win a 2nd term to the U.S. Senate since 1968. Hagan is a “lockstep” vote for Barack Obama and Harry Reid's agenda. Starting last summer, the NRSC began exposing Hagan's liberal record with seven billboards in Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem, highlighting her tipping point vote to pass ObamaCare, which has already cost at least 160,000 North Carolinans their current health plans, and skyrocketed some premiums by more than 400%!
* On Offense 24/7 in Iowa: With this Senate seat up for grabs for the first time since 1984, the NRSC began running billboards in Des Moines as early as last summer in the form of baseball scoreboards that accurately reflect Democrat Bruce Braley is bad for families, farmers, seniors and small businesses for his ObamaCare vote.
* On Offense 24/7 in Louisiana: The NRSC'S TV ad “Misfire” exposed liberal Mary Landrieu (who votes with Barack Obama 97% of the time), to help make our case to Louisiana's voters that Mary has “gone to Washington.” The ad ran during 'Duck Dynasty', which broke cable viewership records with 11.8 million viewers nationwide. Landrieu trumpeted from the Senate floor that her election should be a referendum on ObamaCare– declaring that if Louisianans don't like it, they can “unelect” her. And that is exactly what your Membership in the NRSC can help do.
John your Sustaining Membership matters. It makes a difference now because this is our opportunity-our moment to repeat the 2010 Republican “shellacking” that elected six new Republican Senators by riding a wave of voter outrage. Your Sustaining Membership Gift of $36 (just $1 for each Senate race in 2014) or even $72 will help the NRSC use every available means – social media, smart phones, the internet, direct mail and neighborhood canvassing – to reach crucial voters, especially independants, with our true agenda of growth and prosperity in each of 10 to 12 battlegrounds where control of the Senate is going to be decided.
So, please, with vulneralble liberal Democrats on the ropes in 7 states Obama lost and 5 Democrat retirements unexpectedly draining resources, the door to the Senate Majority is wide open and I am truly ccounting on your support to make sure we walk through it on election night.. Thank you and stay tuned!
Six More Seats!
Senator Jerry Moran Chairman
Mr Moran:
I don't know where you got the idea I am a Republican and want to support your jackass agenda, but I am not! I would be ashamed to even admit I was a Republican, seeing all the jackass stunts they have pulled off, since President Clinton.
You spent most of your time trying to impeach him and no matter what you did to him, he managed to come through. You did accomplish a couple things though, which I am sure you are proud of.
1) You wasted a lot of your time, which should have been spent doing your job, which the American Taxpayer pays you to do, passing worthwhile legislation to help create jobs and take care of other problems, which would help the American people and your own constituents.
2) The second thing is you succeeded in burning through millions of dollars of taxpayer's money, trying to impeach him, when he only had a few more months to go, before his 2nd term was up. That's something you can be very proud of! Especially since you are supposedly looking out for the American people and saving them money.
You say you are for smaller government and are working for the American People, to save them some of their hard earned money. How much of the American People's hard earned money have you pissed away, filing nuisance law suits and forming different commissions, to try and pin some kind of scandal on the Obama Administration?
Think Benghazi, the scandal you are searching for, which you won't give up on. How much of your time, have you wasted taking votes to repeal Obamacare? Isn't it over 50 times now, but you have failed, yet won't give up on it!
Instead of working with the President, to get the Healthcare.gov website functioning properly, you spent all of your time cutting it down and bad mouthing Obamacare. Do you pay people to tell the world how bad Obamacare is? I guess you don't want your constituents to have health insurance, so they can avoid medical bankruptcy and you couldn't care less how many hospitals have to write millions of dollars off, for people, who did not have insurance and could not pay or how many hospitals have to close, because they went bankrupt. Yet you profess to be there for the American People. Which American People are you there for? The upper 1%, who supplies the billions of dollars for your negative campaigns, trying to get a Republican elected?
Now, since Barack Obama was elected president, the Republicans waste most of their time filing frivolous lawsuits and digging for any scandal they can dig up, to cause problems in this administration. Wouldn't it be nice, if you spent as much time doing your job and passing needed legislation, as teachers spend making sure your children get a good education?
Of course you badmouth teacher's saying they are way overpaid, for what they do. Do you have any idea what a teacher does? They don't have the summer off. Many go to school to further their education, so they can do a better job teaching their students.
Many teachers spend a lot of their own money, to buy supplies and other items, for their students, because Republicans would rather take money away from education, so they can give the upper 1% a tax cut, which will supposedly trickle down to us peons. Of course then the schools must cut their budgets, so the teachers are out of luck and need to make do, with what they have.
Teachers do not have an 8 hour day. Many of them end up spending numerous hours into the night, correcting and grading papers their students turned in and preparing their lesson plans for the following day.
Too bad Congress don't do the same! Would be nice if you would concentrate on doing your job, instead of looking for scandals in the Obama Administration and filing nuisance law suits. How many days out of the past year have you actually worked?
How much taxpayer's money are you spending with the frivolous lawsuits and commissions appointed to try and dig up scandal somewhere? Seems to me, you should be doing the job you were elected to do and are paid to do.
Remember last October, when Obamacare became a reality and you insisted employers be given another year to implement the rules they were needing to follow? At first the President didn't want to go along with it, but now that he has agreed to do it, you are filing a lawsuit against him, for doing it. Does that make sense?
The current Congress is the worst Congress in history and has gotten the least done, of any other Congress, in history! I'm sure you are proud of that fact. How many days have you actually worked this year? Yet you have the gall to say teacher's are overpaid and only work 9 months out of the year. Wouldn't it be nice, if you would work as hard as a teacher and put in as many hours?
How much taxpayer money are you wasting with all your antics? You spend the majority of your time trying to kill Obamacare and embarrass President Obama & the Democrats. How many times have you voted to repeal Obamacare? Isn't it over 50 and yet you lost each and every time, but still you keep on trying.
How many times do you see to it that bad rumors are spread about Obamacare, only to be proven you were wrong. Of course you don't admit the rumors you spread were proven untrue. You claimed nobody would sign up, yet no matter how many million are signed up and are actually using the insurance, you still try to put as much of a bad spin on it as you can, only to be proven time and again, you are wrong.
How many hospitals are benefiting, from not having to write so much off from uninsured people using their emergency rooms, who are unable to pay? Since the ACA, many hospitals are seeing the number of uninsured people using their emergency rooms decline significantly. Now since they no longer have to write so much off, they are actually showing a profit?
How many Republican Governors, who refused the Federal money, to expand Medicaid, are seeing many of their state's hospitals going bankrupt, because of all the uninsured people, who are using their emergency rooms.
You claim so many people lost their insurance because of Obamacare and that their premiums are higher, but how many of these same people are losing their high premium, high deductible, low coverage policies, which do not meet Obamacare's minimum requirements for coverage, and actually gaining a better policy, with more coverage and lower premiums?
Did you see how many people there are without insurance or medical care, in Virginia and the Appalachians? Did you see how once a year volunteer Doctors, Nurses and staff, donate their time and supplies, to go to the area, to provide free Dental and Medical care, for these people?
Did you see how many thousands of people travel 100's of miles, just to get there and receive the free services, then end up waiting for days, to get the healthcare they need? Many aren't even able to get any care, due to the sheer number of people who travel all that way. Many have to go home and hope next year, when they make the trip, they will be able to get that care.
The United States is not a 3rd world country and all it's citizens should be able to get Medical and Dental coverage. Thankfully we now have Obamacare, but yet the Republicans are doing their best to repeal it.
Do you think your constituents are going to want to vote for a candidate, who doesn't care enough for them to allow them to get health insurance or benefit from the changes Obamacare has made to the insurance industry?
I guess you couldn't care less about the people in your districts who are benefiting from now having health insurance and being able to take advantage of all the benefits of Obamacare. Do you think they will vote Republican, if they know you are trying as hard as you can to take this benefit away from them?
All you care about is trying to make the president look bad, because after all, he's black and he's a Democrat. You keep wanting to cut taxes and social programs, which benefit the poorer people, in your district. The taxes you are trying to cut, benefit the few, in the upper 1% of society. Supposedly they earned their money, but in reality, couldn't care less about anyone else. It doesn't occur to them how much people, with lower incomes, are allowing them to have the lifestyle they have gotten used to.
Where would they be, without the rest of us, who help produce the products & services they are enjoying. Who would do all of the dirty jobs, which have to be done, to allow them the type of lifestyle they live and yet they don't feel they should contribute their fair share of taxes!
What if they were taxed according to the same percentage, the rest of us are being taxed? I am sure we would not be having the deficit problems we are having now. When George Bush became president, after President Clinton, he inherited a huge surplus, but it didn't take long for him and the rest of the Republican party to turn it into an uncontrollable deficit.
Not only did the Republicans burn through all of that Surplus, they turned it into a huge deficit. They also gave President Obama a financial meltdown, which he had to work hard to keep from having it not only ruin our stock market, but the world stock market too.
What would have happened, if he let the banks, which were too big to fail, fail and let General Motors and Chrysler go bankrupt and not try to help them make it through. Of course the Republicans were not for the bail out at all, figuring they should be allowed to fail.
Even with the Federal help, how many Americans saw their huge nest eggs, vaporize over night? How were they going to recoup their loss? It ruined the economy and ever so slowly it is coming back, although not as fast as you think it should. You criticize President Obama for doing what he did, to try and restore the American's confidence in the government, but you are right there to push all the doom and gloom, instead of trying to give the people hope things will get better.
The rest of us can't afford fancy lawyers to find all of the loop holes, in tax law, which allows them to escape paying their fair share. We aren't earning obscenely large amounts of money, to be able to afford lawyers to help us avoid taxes. We don't have obscenely large amounts of income, which we can pay lawyers to help us find a way to hide it in overseas accounts to avoid taxes, in the United States.
The huge Corporations receive “Corporate Welfare”, which is much worse than the government assistance the poor rely on. Yet they are right there to claim they “earned” the money they are getting and that the poor are just a bunch of “loafers”, who don't want to work.
I guess they don't realize just how many jobs are available, for these “loafers” to apply for and get. How many of these so-called “loafers” have a higher education, but end up taking a fast food job for minimum wage, which in most areas, is only $7.25 an hour. Yet the big corporations scream bloody murder, when it is suggested the minimum wage should be much higher.
The majority of these workers are families or single parents, trying to take care of their families on what little they make. It is no longer the high school kids earning some extra spending money, but regular people, who have no other choice, but to work there, because it was the only job they could get. Of course your Republican party seems to feel there are plenty of jobs out there for everyone.
Did it occur to anyone of you, if you paid the help a lot better and if they had healthcare benefits, they would not be reliant on government assistance? Many of these places not only pay minimum wage, but won't give the worker enough hours, to make enough money to even support their family on the piddly pay check they are getting.
Not only are they not getting paid enough per hour, but they are not even getting enough hours, to be able to live on the piddly amount they are paid. To top it off, these cheap employers don't give them specific hours, but are constantly changing their schedules so that employee is stuck in that job and can't even look for a 2nd job or even look for a better job.
I know of people, who were hired by Walmart, to work part time, to avoid having to give them benefits, but who mysteriously end up working full time hours, with no benefits! Even when they complain, nothing is done, so they quit.
If they are allowed to look for a better job, they might actually get that better job and the cheapskate employer will be out another employee, who they can take advantage of. The American worker needs to provide for their family! They are not a high school kid, in his first job, making some spending money, while living at home, with his parents and has no other responsibilities!
Yet the restaurant industry can't see this. It don't occur to them if they paid better, their workers would not need so much government assistance. They could then live a respectful life, without having to depend on food stamps or other assistance. They want to work to support their families, but then have to swallow their pride and apply for food stamps and public assistance.
They would then have enough money to actually patronize some of these restaurants, by taking their families out to eat once in a while. If they didn't need all of that government assistance, there wouldn't need to be that much money put into social programs, to help them. They would be self sufficient and no longer a so-called “loafer”, who don't want to work and just wants to live off the government. If there was less need for government assistance, then there wouldn't need to be more money added to the deficit, for those programs.
When I was a little boy, in the 50's & 60's, it seemed the Republicans were pretty decent, but now that the Republican party is begging money off the Billionaires and answering to the Teabaggers, they have become a totally different party, who are only interested in cutting taxes for the rich and cutting social programs, for the poor.
Your party feels that spreading rumors about different lies about President Obama & Obamacare, will drum up support for your agenda. Unfortunately, for you, people are realizing how much they are benefiting, from Obamacare and the changes it made to the insurance industry. It will be highly unlikely they will vote for Republican's, especially seeing all of the stunts you are pulling.
How much money did you save the taxpayers, by coming close to shutting down the government? You are so interested in embarrassing President Obama and Democrats, you couldn't care less if anything of value gets done, in Congress. You also couldn't care less about how much of the taxpayer's money you waste, with your antics.
You benefit from most media outlets, who tend to spread your lies and even when they are proven wrong, they don't admit it. Fox News is not news, it's just putting a fantasy twist on actual events and they don't even report what is actually happening!
I'm sure you are very proud of your star members, such as Ted Cruz, Sarah Pallin, Michelle Bachman, Louie Goemert and so many others, who spread lies and absolute nonsense, just by opening their mouths. I had always believed, if you are elected to congress, you need to have some brains, but I'm finding out many of your members thought God said trains, when he asked them if they wanted any, so they said no. All I have to do is listen to what comes out of their mouth, to know they don't know anything about what they are talking about.
Also why does your party go out of their way to discourage people from voting, especially the poor, African Americans & Latinos. Is it because they would vote Democratic and you can't have that?
All the bolding is mine, just wanted to bring attention to some of the BS they are pushing.