The letter

GLENN: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. He writes an open letter to our nation's leadership: I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.

Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when he will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.

Nice letter, I personally would be very happy to see 95% of the current Congress fired in 2010 and the president fired in 2012. And like the letters author I no longer give a damn about party. Most of the GOP is just as bad as most of the Democrats. Throw the bums out, all of them.

>This letter is bang on, as a Canadian on the outside looking in, the situation in the US scares the crap out of me, too bad nobody listens to the good people.

Then can I get your Canadian perspective on a couple of pieces I wrote?

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dv698tm_25c7b35cc9
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dv698tm_22dr6x3nfb

Well, I think this person is a rhetorical fiction—perhaps suggested by the curious way Beck calls her a “woman” and then speaks of her as “he.” but I agree with the talking points.

It says "she" on Beck's website.

The poster must have made a transcription error, or Beck's editor fixed it.

FYI, this throw the bums out, attitude started in the 2006 election and continued into the 2008 election. Just about every talking head mis interpreted those elections. “We the People” had had it with the incompetence of the Bush Administration and the GOP controlled Congress. More government, big spending, open borders, idiotic “free trade deals”, etc. So out with the GOP, unfortunately the only alternative was the Democrats. Foolishly the Democrats are giving us the incompetent Bush on steroids. OK, fine democrats, your turn next. I just wish there was a real alterative to the useless D’s and R’s.

Gotcha. In the interview this morning she said she spent about 2 hours on the letter, including the original writing and then going back and tweaking words and phrases here and there.

It may be talking points, but she sounded legit. I guess we’ll know withing the next day or two. If she plagiarized or used talking points, the opposition will find out and make it public.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution

Our down fall began when WE the PEOPLE allowed the government to start passing laws that circumvent the basic principles of our constitution. The tea party's that are going to be held on July 4th should include FIRST and FOREMOST that ANY AND ALL politicians that do not uphold their oath of office 100% will be removed and immediate removal will not be soon enough. WE must use our collective powers to send that message if we are to regain our liberty and the status of a free nation.

Totally possible.

If she’s a parent and grandparent, she grew up during a time when most democrats were what we now refer to as “Kennedy Democrats”; that is, strong on national defense, strong on lowering taxes, and strong on traditional American values.

The liberal nut kooks of that day weren’t called “liberal”, or “progressive”, or “democrat”... they were identified by the name that defines them: COMMUNISTS.

A couple of years after McGovern she registers democrat in about 1974 and votes for Carter in 1976, all that is fine but then she stays a democrat through the next 30 years after 1979 and now writes this?

This woman is goofy.

While I agree with this woman's grievances, her solution ain't ever gonna happen - too many people have a vested interest in maintaining the current corrupt system.

Gov’t employees, politicians, unions, illegal aliens, those on welfare, & the like are happy with our march to socialism/fascism. They will fight us tooth & nail to keep the gravy train headed their way.

She mentions voting out all in our greedy ruling class, but who is gonna vote out the likes of Pelosi, Reid, or Kennedy. Their constituents certainly will not. They gleefully go to the poll in droves to reelect these bums every time. Short of mobilizing a large group of conservatives to move into her district, Pelosi will never be replaced by a limited gov’t conservative. And with congressional leadership determined mostly by seniority, she will remain a very powerful congressman for years to come.

No, this country is as polarized as it was in 1776, & only a bloody revolution will change anything. And even then there is no guarantee the conservatives will succeed.

Just don't count on the ballot to change anything for the better. That should be obvious by now.

She mentions voting out all in our greedy ruling class,

Interestingly when I read her letter all I see is concern about money, the lifelong democrat voter doesn't seem concerned about moral issues at all. She sounds like a liberal that has developed an interest in keeping more of her money.

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