Are They Truly That Stupid?

Dear Ms. McCaskill,

WE THE PEOPLE got your e-mail about your upcoming visit to Sedalia next week and WE are impressed that even though you don’t know us personally, you took the time to make sure WE got the invite.

There are however a couple of problems with the timing of your visit. First, with the President working so hard to pass the Cap & Trade bill by Memorial Day WE would think you’d want to make the visit before this crucial vote so that you can gauge the feelings of your constituents, WE THE PEOPLE. The second issue WE have with your visit is the time: 9:30-10:30am? Sedalia and the surrounding areas are working class communities and many families have 2 working parents. In other words, the majority of the people that need to hear what you have to say and give you their input will be at work.

Follow up:

Since I’m one of WE THE PEOPLE that will be at work I’ll give you my opinion now of the Cap & Trade bill. I believe that President Obama’s desire to rush this (and other) legislation through Congress without thoughtful deliberation is not because he wants to take on big issues and get things done. I believe it’s because he is well aware that the clock is ticking on his enthusiastic accomplice, the Obamanic media. The blogosphere is aware but unorganized, and if it gets its act together to create a network that reaches masses with the historical but now defunct credibility of the “mainstream” media, that oldstream media will be toast.

When that happens, WE THE PEOPLE will be told the real cost of envirosocialist legislation like Cap & Trade and the new fuel mileage requirements, and there will be hell to pay for the legislators that were complicit in getting it passed. WE THE PEOPLE, who were misled into supporting Obama on the promise of lower taxes, will be infuriated by the fact that the thirteen-dollar-a-week reduction in our withholding won’t even begin to cover the cost of the higher prices generated by YOU OUR LEGISLATORS. Even if the tax rate gets lowered for working families, the resulting inflation will still put the increase in our cost of living into double digits. And to add insult to injury, that thirteen-dollar-a-week reduction in our withholding will be recaptured at the end of the year because it wasn’t WE THE PEOPLE’s tax rate that was lowered, just the withholding. You can blame the President, but in reality, nothing can be accomplished without YOU OUR LEGISLATORS, and YOU will have created the taxes on corporations and upper-income individuals that will have caused the inflation.

So my question to you Ms. McCaskill is this: Are you truly unaware that these will be the consequences if Cap & Trade passes, or do you know the consequences but go along with the party so you can hope to get pork for Missouri in order to get reelected?

Or to put it another way: Are you truly that stupid, or do you just think WE THE PEOPLE are?