TEA TIME FOR CONGRESSMAN ROSKAM
July 31, 2011
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam:
You sure look uncomfortable being thrust into the national spotlight as a Republican House leader having to defend the tea party cult that has virtually taken over your party, preventing it from exercising any rational discourse to fix our stagnating economy. There you are at the televised House press briefings positioned in back of Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor as they pretend to offer constructive policy when they can only parrot the extremist positions of the freshman tea party caucus that would exacerbate our economic decline if they had any chance of being enacted.
Your frozen expression as you are framed in the picture during these truly bizarre briefings makes one wonder what your must be thinking.
Are you thinking that your substantial paycheck from Uncle Sam might just be among the first checks to be deferred should the tea party cult's effort to shut down the government comes to pass? Are you wondering if you will be asked to voluntarily give up your paycheck due to your active role in that possible shutdown?
Are you thinking how long your constituents, tens of thousands of which are suffering under ruinous Republican policies, will continue to buy your statements about controlling spending when you support spending trillions on senseless wars, trillions on senseless tax cuts for the already rich, and hundreds of billions in senseless giveaways to Big Pharma who successfully lobbied your party to prevent negotiation for fair prescription drug costs for seniors?
Are you thinking about the thousands of Congressman hours wasted placating the tea party cult controlling your party instead of engaging in the most critical component of good governance...compromise?
Are you wondering if the 72% of Americans who demand fair taxation for the wealthiest Americans is reflected in your district as well when your number one priority is not only maintaining, but increasing tax breaks for your wealthy financial supporters?
Are you wondering how long you can continue to blame the Obama Administration for creating "uncertainty" in the market place when the unprecedented uncertainty caused by the tea party cult has solicited withering criticism from economists, bond rating services, the public, foreign trading partners, and even the dwindling number of rational Republicans who haven't yet been co-opted by the cult.
Are you wondering how many hundreds of thousands of hard working folks will be thrown onto the unemployment roles if the tea party cult gets the spending cuts to the social safety net they have forced you to support?
Are you wondering how your Illinois House colleague and tea party cult spokesman Joe Walsh (8th, IL) could have become such an embarrassment to your party with his reckless personal finances, while he shamelessly preaches fiscal responsibility?
Sir, only you can truly tell us what you're thinking as your frozen expression frames the two guys pretending to be statesmen
at those press briefings. But if I had to guess, one thought for sure is: "I'd rather be anywhere else."
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
Sixth District resident
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam:
You sure look uncomfortable being thrust into the national spotlight as a Republican House leader having to defend the tea party cult that has virtually taken over your party, preventing it from exercising any rational discourse to fix our stagnating economy. There you are at the televised House press briefings positioned in back of Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor as they pretend to offer constructive policy when they can only parrot the extremist positions of the freshman tea party caucus that would exacerbate our economic decline if they had any chance of being enacted.
Your frozen expression as you are framed in the picture during these truly bizarre briefings makes one wonder what your must be thinking.
Are you thinking that your substantial paycheck from Uncle Sam might just be among the first checks to be deferred should the tea party cult's effort to shut down the government comes to pass? Are you wondering if you will be asked to voluntarily give up your paycheck due to your active role in that possible shutdown?
Are you thinking how long your constituents, tens of thousands of which are suffering under ruinous Republican policies, will continue to buy your statements about controlling spending when you support spending trillions on senseless wars, trillions on senseless tax cuts for the already rich, and hundreds of billions in senseless giveaways to Big Pharma who successfully lobbied your party to prevent negotiation for fair prescription drug costs for seniors?
Are you thinking about the thousands of Congressman hours wasted placating the tea party cult controlling your party instead of engaging in the most critical component of good governance...compromise?
Are you wondering if the 72% of Americans who demand fair taxation for the wealthiest Americans is reflected in your district as well when your number one priority is not only maintaining, but increasing tax breaks for your wealthy financial supporters?
Are you wondering how long you can continue to blame the Obama Administration for creating "uncertainty" in the market place when the unprecedented uncertainty caused by the tea party cult has solicited withering criticism from economists, bond rating services, the public, foreign trading partners, and even the dwindling number of rational Republicans who haven't yet been co-opted by the cult.
Are you wondering how many hundreds of thousands of hard working folks will be thrown onto the unemployment roles if the tea party cult gets the spending cuts to the social safety net they have forced you to support?
Are you wondering how your Illinois House colleague and tea party cult spokesman Joe Walsh (8th, IL) could have become such an embarrassment to your party with his reckless personal finances, while he shamelessly preaches fiscal responsibility?
Sir, only you can truly tell us what you're thinking as your frozen expression frames the two guys pretending to be statesmen
at those press briefings. But if I had to guess, one thought for sure is: "I'd rather be anywhere else."
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
Sixth District resident
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