My Letter To Mary

[demwing]

I used to think: "What a sad day, if some day in the future they let the ANWR be destroyed." I honestly never thought I would see that day. I hoped my children never would, either.

But that day is coming. It knocked on the door, and three democratic Senators said "Welcome!"

And what have we gained?

The oil supply in ANWR is limited. The oil that IS there won't remove our dependence from foreign oil.

Making SUVs more efficient would have accomplished the same gain, without the same loss, so what have we gained?

And why?

That's what my ten year old son asked me. "Why did they vote to drill for oil there, dad? Don't they care?"

I didn't have an answer for him.

"Maybe they didn't know any better," was my son's answer to himself. He needed to invent a justification for your actions, because he couldn't see any justification. He's only ten. He doesn't understand the nature of greed. Not completely.

Not yet.

So he assumed you just didn't know. That was the only way he could wrap his mind around your vote.

But you knew better. Yeah, you knew.

I won't tell my son that he's wrong. Better to let him remain ignorant of the selfish things that our "leaders" do to stay in office. I'll let him live with his innocence a bit longer.

You and I don't have that option. We are not among the innocent.

We know...

[Maraya1969]

1. Great Letter...but who is Mary?

[realFedUp]

3. Senator Mary Landrieu....

[blue agave]

2. I like it.

Mary is the dishonorable gentle lady from the great state of LA.

[realFedUp]

4. I agree with your letter. Senators represent us all and just voting their

states may be where their votes are in elections,
but each of their actions affects us all. This
was a shame and a crime IMO....back room deals
should have nothing to do with the greater good.
Unfortunately the Senators from Hawaii and
Ms. Landrieu are self-serving in their votes.
If the grassroots is organized enough, we'll
find people to run against them.

[dusty64]

5. Very good

and very sad at the same time. I feel the same way, our politicians for the most part no longer serve the People and don't even feel the need to hide it anymore. Sadly, from the complete lack of outrage from the citizenry over the things that have happening in Washington lately it looks like they can do whatever they please to us.

[demwing]

6. Hawaiians had a reason. Landrieu had a donation.

From Yahoo News....
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=1&u=/thenation/20050318/cm_thenation/132273

** Democrats Daniel Akaka and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana handed Bush a huge victory--and the environment a huge loss--this week by voting to open up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for oil drilling. The Hawaii delegation made a shrewd political compromise: they'd support the ANWR provision if Alaska's Ted Stevens co-sponsored a bill recognizing Native Hawaiians as indigenous peoples. Mary Landrieu, on the other hand, is the darling of her state's oil and gas interests, who contributed $303,000 to her 2002 campaign. Before the vote, a Kerry staffer told me that Landrieu would vote with her fellow Democrats. Apparently, there's nothing quite like stabbing your own kind in the back.

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[dusty64]

7. Interested

in knowing if you get a response from her.