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Rep. Tiberi:
Thanks for your reply to my last email. Your lengthy response is largely an argumentative recycling of your same old talking points: The PPACA is "onerous" and is "making things worse". The government is shut down because "the President and Democrat-led Senate refuse to negotiate or compromise", and "the only way to get Democrats to the table is to attach important issues to must-pass bills."
Sorry, but I can't buy what you're selling. As far back as July, a clean budget bill was agreed to, with funding below sequestration levels, but you and John Boehner allowed the wing-nuts in your party to hijack the normal process by making everything contingent on dismantling Obamacare. Not surprisingly, the Democrats cried foul, most Americans echoed that cry, and now all you'll do about it is whine that the Democrats won't negotiate. Negotiate what? There was a deal and your party screwed it up (and now you're poised to do the same thing with the debt ceiling). You let the shut-down happen and you are to blame, not the Democrats.
If, as you say, funding the government is a "must-pass" issue (and it is), then just pass it! You have the power and the votes to do it today. It's a matter of simply doing your job. Strip out all the extraneous junk, drop the piece-meal approach, and just do your job. You can fight your party's ideological battles on your own time.
I hope you read Joe Hallett's column in Sunday's Columbus Dispatch. (I bet you did.) He captured the reality of your predicament -- even with a gerrymandered guaranteed-seat-for-life, Republicans like you are timid. You won't stand up to the Tea Bag playground bullies and by your failure to do so, you implicitly endorse their lunatic-fringe agenda.
Time to cowboy up, Congressman!
Sincerely,
Buster Gammons
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