Here is an e-mail I received from my TEA Party Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL11) who seems to have missed the point of what everyone else was saying in his appearance on Meet the Press yesterday. In most circumstances, I'd figure that the Congressman was just shining me along, but this guy might actually believe this evidence of his disconnect with reality.
The reply that I sent to him this morning follows his propaganda.
Washington, D.C . Update - Kinzinger on NBC's Meet the Press
Earlier today, I joined a roundtable discussion on Meet the Press to talk about whether Washington is too broken for Congress and the President to come together on a solution over the ongoing debt ceiling debate.
History will judge us by whether we worked together to solve our country's problems or played politics to score points in the next election. We have a responsibility to the American people which is why we need to take the most efficient and effective steps toward the path of economic recovery and prosperity.
11th District Update - Kinzinger Meets with Local Job Creators to Discuss Ways to Refuel the Economy
As unemployment continues to linger above 9 percent, getting folks back to work remains the number one issue on the minds of Americans and is my top priority in Congress.
Last week, I held two roundtable discussions in the 11th District to talk with local job creators about ways to improve economic certainty in order to refuel our economy now and leave future generations with a stronger, more prosperous nation.
My reply:
Congressman:
I saw your appearance on Meet the Press this morning, and I have to say that you were an embarrassment to the 11th Congressional District, standing as you did, as the embodiment of everything that was being reviled by the rest of what must be judged as a fairly conservative panel.
You did not help your cause with your claim of loyalty to a thoroughly incompetent Speaker of the House, and the sincerity of that claim must be questioned in view of your blind obeisance to TEA Party "principles".
Your e-mail to me regurgitates the campaign theme that jobs are your number one priority. In view of the fact that not one single jobs measure has been advanced by anyone in your party in the first six months of this congress, I have to judge that as being a pile of number two. In regard to your round table discussions, they aren't "job creators" if they don't create jobs, although I can see how that distinction may be lost on you at a fundraising luncheon.
I think that it is time to pull your head out of the congressional kiester and govern. You may start to exercise that option by proposing a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling, followed by another to retire the debt ceiling altogether. Then argue forcefully in favor of both in the interest of the nation whose Constitution you are multiply sworn to protect. It is instructive to note that those pledges you took to the Constitution in your military service as well as upon becoming a congressman take precedence over the imbecilic pander pledge you took as you smooched the finely tailored derriere of Grover Norquist.
Play time's over, Bunky. Get your ass to work.
