Madam Speaker:
In plain and simple terms I would like you to know what an average American thinks about your 5 week vacation starting today; I DO NOT LIKE IT ONE BIT!
For several weeks, your leadership has been pathetic. You refuse to do the peoples work and take an up or down vote on energy policy (specifically offshore drilling) and today you have decided it is acceptable to leave for vacation with your work unfinished. If I did that, I would lose my job.
Worse still, you refuse to accept any kind of political discourse and shut off the lights, microphones, and media cameras on the floor of the House chambers. I find these actions deplorable and unacceptable. We do not live in the Peoples Republic of China where the leaders of the country chose for us what news we may see or may not see. We do not have State run medias that allow politicians to filter the news and sanitize it for accepted viewing. If the hard working members, including 17 of your own party, feel the need to do their constituents work, you should let them. If they feel the need to stay on the chamber floors with the lights, microphones, and TV cameras running, you should let them. You are the speaker for ALL Americans, and that means even if you do not agree with them.
Better yet, I hope you would call the House back into session to fix the problems that Americans are facing. Listen to your constituents, which, again since you are the Speaker of the House, are all the American people.
I hope you enjoy your vacation but I hope you feel the empty pit in your stomach for letting the average, hard working American people down by your unexplainable actions.
Thanks for returning civility and bipartisanship to Washington Madam Speaker.
Sincerely,
FightinBluHen51
Just email her from here... http://www.speaker.gov/contact/
Thank you fight - I used the 415 # and was able to leave a message, but I emailed also. The silver lining to this is that, without meaning to, she has galvanized a lot of dispirited Republicans.