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June 20, 2007
A Message from Your Senator: You're a Bunch of Ingrates!
Yeah, I'm talking to you, talk radio listeners. You, too, whiny middle class workers and taxpayers.
We senators take time out of our busy schedules to go craft an immigration plan, we work on it for weeks - months even - and do we get any appreciation? No, all we get is complaints. One phone call after another about how you don't like this or how you don't like that. Worse yet, you insist on calling our plan an amnesty, when we've told you a thousand times it's not. And then, to top it all off, you doubt our promises that this time we'll actually enforce the law.
Well, we've had just about enough of your bellyaching. You keep saying that you sent us to Washington to work together. Well, we're working together! You don't like what we're working together on? Tough. We put a lot of time and effort into this immigration bill and we're not about to start all over. We don't expect you to like it - although it would be nice if you made an effort - but we do expect you to learn to live with it. It's the best you're going to get, so shut up already. Besides, let's see you do better.
We give you a grand bargain on immigration, and all you can talk about is how we haven't straightened out the mess in Iraq, or lowered energy costs. Sometimes we wonder why we even bother.
And let's be clear about something else: We're in charge here, not you, and certainly not those loud mouth obnoxious talk radio guys. If you're all so smart, how come you're back there and we're here in Washington? Huh? Think about that.
So, one last time: Stop calling this immigration plan an amnesty. Stop telling us that we're not going to keep our promises about enforcement. And, STOP calling us. We've heard what you have to say and we just don't care, so stop wasting your time and ours.
Posted on at June 20, 2007 04:38 PM