Dear Senator McConnell:
Legacy: something transmitted by or
received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past legacy of the ancient
philosophers>
Thirty years is a long enough pattern to become legacy. When
looking at your thirty years in office and focusing, as most people will, on
the years since 2007, when you became the Minority Leader in the Senate, your
legacy should not make you (or your children and grandchildren who will have to
live with it) proud. You will be remembered mostly for your vow to make
President Obama a one-term President, with no concern for how badly your attempts
to do that harmed the residents of Kentucky,
the nation, and the world. You will also be remembered for your pork, which you
bragged about for years until your party decided it was a terrible, horrible, must-be-stopped-and-criticized-forever
activity. Your filibuster record, including the fact that you are the only Senator
to filibuster his own bill, will most surely brighten up a few history classes.
Regardless of the something
a voter considers important, you have left the majority of us with less than we
had before – exactly like the parent who dies and leaves his children with more
overdue bills than assets.
We have fewer jobs. People work harder for lower wages, and each
dollar buys less than it did when you came into office. Many people lost their
homes and their health care, and are unable to feed themselves and their
families. When given an opportunity to vote for something that helps, you
consistently fail. Even if it were true that the majority were doing better
(and that is not true), ignoring the people who are hurting the worst is
inexcusable. Inhumane disregard for
those in need will be your legacy. I will help keep that legacy alive for
you as long as I can and then ask my grandchildren to continue for me.
Unfortunately for you, regardless of party affiliation/registration,
most of us would say we have lost rights during your leadership. Your side
screams about being persecuted Christians who are no longer able to pray in
school and plaster the commandments they can’t remember on every public space so
they’ll never forget to ignore them in public. They mourn the fact that their
party has not delivered the theocracy they want, that big brother is watching
over home-grown terrorist groups/militias, that they might possibly be close to
losing the right to be armed and ready to kill in the grocery and daycare. They
are fearful that they might be forced to work somewhere that won’t cause them
to have black lung, and that a same-sex couple will get married and cause their
spouses to abandon them. Both sides are angry about feeling spied on. Failure to protect our rights will be your
legacy (Remember
The Protect America Act and Legislation Related to the Domestic Surveillance Program
which you introduced but tried to squirrel away from?). http://www.llrx.com/extras/nsa.htm
You are in a no-win
legacy position, Senator. Your destruction makes you a loser from my proud
liberal perspective. The fact that you didn’t destroy this country quite enough
makes you unpopular on your own side. If I were you, I’d wish I had been a
one-term Senator.
You still have a month to change all of this. You could
admit the truth, apologize, and resign. I would remember you quite differently
and bet others would, too.
If not for yourself, you might want to consider your party.
If, by chance, you care about anything other than yourself. In the thirty years
that you have been in office, your party has been circling the bowl. Making
that last-ditch-effort change might encourage others in your party to do the
same before the final flush. (Food for thought doesn’t really work here, but
you get the idea.)
This is what a winning legacy looks like: Ted Kennedy http://www.legacy.com/news/legends-and-legacies/ted-kennedy-10-facts/826/
Sandy
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