LETTER TO CHRIS MATTHEWS , CHRIS HAYES & RACHEL MADDOW

Chris Matthews on MSBC is usually an understanding guy especially when it comes to politics, but tonight he fell on his face. He raved on for a long time during his usual follow up at the end of broadcast about not having a vote about going to war. He said such innate things as we are in the business of killing Muslims without voting on the issue: Libya, Egypt, and Syria.

Chris, you are right! We should have a congressional vote on each war. The only exception would be when the president acts to prevent an imminent and sudden attack. I do not want Mitt Romney with his finger on the trigger. Mitt Romney’s closest advisors, the guys waiting in the wings if he were elected, were the same people who started the Iraq fiasco and turned it into funnel for money into their pockets and the pockets of their friends. Romney’s only foreign experiences are that he knows about the Cayman Islands and Switzerland; therefore, he would have relied on his advisors 100% for the rest of the world.

However, Chris, you are dead wrong if you think we can wait—in fact, the whole world wait—on the deadhead United States congress to do anything. We have to rely on Obama. One of the best Presidents we have ever had. Perhaps, we were lucky; perhaps the America people saw his values when they elected his the second time. But, we cannot have Obama forever as much as I wish we could.

Obama has done wonders but we are still hurting for jobs in this country. The House of Representatives have tied his hands—not one bill. We need legislation to control drones strikes but the Senate sets ideal; not exactly true, they do complain about the President using drones. We are in dire need of huge infrastructure investments; the House will do nothing. We need consumer protection but the do nothing.  We need to rebuild our public schools and establish health care but all we get is antiabortion legislation or repeal of Affordable Heath Care legislation, 39 times. . . pure nonsense. Chris Matthew, do you really want these issues decided by Michelle Bachman, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Marcia Blackburn. Can they even get their minds around such serious things as war and peace? Do you want Ted Cruz and Rand Paul to decide our future? You act as if Obama is responsible for the Congress, when you know, there is nothing more he can do that he is not already doing—running the foreign policy. He cannot control this Congress; only the American people can.  I am worried about what will happen when we no longer have a Democratic president and if you, Chris Hayes, and Rachel Maddow have your way, you will tear Obama’s heart out and hand it to the Republicans, when you hand the a presidency to a Republican.  

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