Dear Senator McConnell:
I’m not sure where to start with the surge of garbage that
has poured in from McConnell world since I last wrote. I guess I’ll go with the
most disappointing first and work my way back to the good news.
Who am I trying to fool? I want to blurt out the good news
first to make sure I don’t forget. The most recent polls say you are extremely
unpopular with only a 36% approval rate in Kentucky. Everywhere I look, there are new
pages, groups, blogs, and memes talking about the horrible things you’ve done,
and about how many people dislike you. I flatter myself by believing that my
four-year-project has paid off. I smile when I think that your goal was to make
President Obama a one-term President while mine was to make sure your name
recognition carried with it knowledge of your horrible record. Finally, I can
say without doubt that you failed and I succeeded.
Now, I will return to the most disappointing issue.
Mitch McConnell joins far right fringe on guns I hate to admit this in public but I honestly held out a
little hope for you on this one. You are a father, and I am guessing that at
least one of your three children might have produced a grandchild although I
haven’t verified that. (A Google search for your grandchildren provides a link
to my letter On
Behalf of My Grandchildren,
Senator McConnell,
which addresses my grandchildren but not yours.)
When I heard the news about Sandy Hook,
my heart shattered. From what I understand, that is true for most people, and
many of us have not recovered. I guess I gave you the benefit of the doubt and
assumed that you had a heart to shatter. When your new BFF, and my other
embarrassing Senator, Rand Paul went public with his nonsense about
filibustering any attempt to strengthen gun safety in this country, I decided
that validated my belief that as terrible as you are at your job, I still have
a sliver more respect for you than I do him. At least I only fear you
politically; I fear him politically and physically.
And then you had to jump on the crazy train with him. Oh,
what a bittersweet dilemma that creates. On the sweet side, it will hurt your
campaign. But, we sane Kentuckians still have to swallow the bitter reality of
the whole world laughing at us. (In case you don’t know, the whole world IS
watching. My granddaughter gets a kick out of seeing which countries are reading my letters to you. Thanks for that little pleasure.)
I have no problem admitting that I was wrong in assuming
that you would feel the pain of every person who lost someone in that massacre,
and that you would lie awake at night thinking of all the things you could do to
make sure nothing like this ever happens again, and that you would realize there is no way to
predict who is mentally unable to handle the responsibility of owning a gun so
we must regulate and minimize, and that you would see through the NRA’s ridiculous
leap onto school safety when schools are not the problem. I was wrong – very wrong
– to assume that you would be anything like the sane, compassionate, fair,
logical people in this country.
Second on my complaint list is this: Mitch McConnell Won'tStop Saying That the Left Was "Bugging" His Campaign Office You know, Senator McConnell, that this is total bull. My
guess is that someone in your office defected. You are surely suspecting the
same now that you wasted tax dollars on an FBI investigation that came up with
nothing. Seriously, old fool would be an improvement over the way you are looking these
days. There’s some sweet irony (of the sickenly sweet variety) in your use of
tax dollars for this and in the fact that you also waste tax dollars taking
secret service to protect you when you visit school children.
Ashley Judd’s words are kinder than mine, and prove that her
mental status is certainly much better than yours. "This is yet another
example of the politics of personal destruction that embody Mitch McConnell and
are pervasive in Washington,
D.C," Judd said in the statement. "We expected nothing less from
Mitch McConnell and his camp to take a personal struggle such as depression,
which many Americans cope with on a daily basis, and turn it into a laughing
matter."
Another sore spot for me is that you and your cronies (or
should I say allies so you'll know I'm trying to insult you?) are ruining satire for me and causing friction between me
and one of my oldest friends. He suggested that we should label satire because
so many people are sharing some of the most inane stories as truth. It’s a
sorry state of affairs when Republicans are so absurd that there is no way to
exaggerate stories about them to the point that rational people stop and say, “Oh,
no, this can’t possibly be true so they laugh.” Here’s the latest example of
satire that the intelligent, informed people believed. I hope you will read it and weep.
And then there are usual complaints – the things that never
go away so I can’t wait for 2014 to be rid of you. Your obstruction is
childish, inexcusable, and harmful. The reason I know you are lying when you
claim to be Christian is that if you believed in hell you would know you have
earned your spot in the VIP section there.
Wishing you sleepless nights, haunted by visions of children
who have been shot with assault rifles,
Sandy
