Monday, September 29, 2008

K.R.'s Letter to the Squeaker of the House

The Hon. Nancy Pelosi
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Ms. Pelosi:

As a voter who is registered as, and actually is an independent, I have been appalled by the excessive partisanship you have displayed in what has been passing as leadership in what used to be "the peoples house."

Nonetheless, I was stunned by the ineptitude and dishonesty you exhibited in your statements attacking the Bush Administration prior to yesterday's vote on the Paulson financial system rescue plan.

Although I am neither a friend nor a supporter of the administration, your partisan effort to blame the current financial crisis on it seems to me to have been calculated to maximize Republican opposition to the bailout proposal. Furthermore, your argument, probably intentionally, ignored and seems to have been intended to divert attention from your party's major role in creating the crisis.

The Democrat record of supporting the excesses and corrupt practices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is clear and well documented. Repeated efforts to reform those entities and warnings of the dangers they posed were ignored and even mocked by prominent members of your party such as Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Christopher Dodd. They repeatedly claimed the operations and finances of the GSE's were sound as they and other members and supporters of your party profited handsomely from support of the status quo.

Your conduct makes clear that you are interested not in the well being of the country or the health of its economy but, instead, in power and power for its own sake.

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