I woke up this morning to find a thick, heavy frost on all outside surfaces, patches of clear ice on the deck and steps, snow on the mountains down to about 2500 feet, and… one of my letters to the editor in the Johnson City Press.
To be accurate, the snow was there yesterday afternoon as week drove into the valley around 1600. It was an incredibly beautiful view. The ice was also on the deck by 2200 last night. The letter was submitted 6 November. The frost, however, was new today.
The letter was written attacking Rep. Phil Roe for his submission to the Norquist no taxes pledge. I’m looking for an angle of attack that will somehow resonate with the GOP/teavangelists who make up the bulk of the voter base around here. Perhaps pointing out that their choice of elected representatives has effectively sold them out will trigger some response. They’re all anti-taxation voters. But they have effectively had their right to representative government sold out from under them by means of Roe, and other GOP/teavangelist legislators’ submission to Grover Norquist.
I would be thrilled to see a valid opponent to Roe, someone who might actually draw more than 1% of the total vote, on the ballot in 2012. I’m not an acceptable option, no question about that. But I’m willing to work against him and for a viable alternative. The local Democratic Party leaves me almost at cold as the official Republican Party. And the teavangelist populace here is truly something to be eliminated from Congress and any other government body. I may have to hold my nose and visit the Democratic Party. At least they oppose Roe already.
If anyone wants to use this anti-Norquist device in his or her local elections, I wish you success. Please let me know if you do, and what the outcome is.
Added below is the letter printed in today’s Johnson City Press.
Recall Roe, eliminate Norquist
Rational voters and recognized economists understand that in order to begin paying down our national debt requires both judiciously applied spending reductions along with revamping and implementing our tax codes to increase taxes for the ultra wealthy. That entails political compromise that the teavangelists and GOP are unwilling to agree to. Many of the GOP/teavanagelists have signed a “no tax” pledge demanded by a lobbyist/self-appointed authority named Grover Norquist. David Phillip Roe is among those who have sworn fealty to Norquist. Norquist does not live in Tennessee. However, Roe has chosen to represent Norquist rather than the people of Tennessee’s first District. He’s made it obvious that he serves Norquist’s interests in Congress.
Very well! This is sufficient reason in and of itself to recall Roe or to vote him out of office at the earliest opportunity. He no longer works for the people who pay the taxes that fund his political career. Let’s vote him out of office and let him ask Norquist for a job.
James S Lenon
Disappear Fear is playing at The Down Home tonight.
Shabbat Shalom!
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