"Have You No Sense Of Decency?"

   

(My email sent to both Rep. Pat Tiberi and to Speaker John Boehner.  With Tiberi, you must be an actual constituent, but anyone can email the Orangeman at www.speaker.gov/contact.  It's the equivalent of a spitball -- won't do any good, but it sure is fun!)
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Re: Your vote on Friday's 2014 CR, H.J. 59

So, the brain trust of the House GOP is going to just shut down the federal government unless you get your way and "defund" Obamacare?

Many times you've employed this same blackmail, but it won't work anymore. You can spew all the lies and B.S. you want about Obamacare.  You think it's all just standard operating procedure -- political posturing and theater.  But do have you any idea how reckless and cruel and childish your tactics appear?  What you propose would hurt real people.

In the well-known words of Joseph N. Welch (chief counsel for the US Army in the Army-McCarthy hearings):

"Have you no sense of decency, sir?  At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

For a long time, I tried to persuade myself otherwise, but now I really believe the answer is, no, you have no sense of decency left at all.