Reality Slate

Mr. President.

On election night in November, you claimed that, while just under half the country didn't vote for you, you would be the President of all Americans. Many of us on the right were encouraged, but leery, of this inspiring promise. What has transpired since, has been disappointing at best.

The Stimulus Package was your first opportunity to show that you would represent all of America. In that brief period, between your Inauguration and before the passage of the bill, you told us that without the bill's passage, we could be heading for disaster. You chose to criticize the Republicans who did not support the stimulus, you accused them of listening to Rush Limbaugh instead of the 'people,' which must have been code for 'you.' Your Press Secretary has repeatedly used such unifying terms as 'the party of no, and 'the party of no ideas,' when referring to the Republicans, but let's not forget my favorite of the unifying phrases, 'old habits die hard.' In the end, the stimulus package was passed in a hurry, full of pet projects, and rushed through legislation, largely unread. If there are any jobs created in the Stimulus Package, they will all be Union jobs, in sectors of the economy that are not suffering. To quote a famous economist "if you rob Peter to pay pay Paul, you can generally count on the support of Paul." The problem is that you promised to represent Peter as well as Paul.

The alienation of the half of the country who did not vote for you continues. Your Energy Department has been repealing oil and natural gas leases all over the country. A majority of the country wants us to to utilize our natural resources, including nuclear energy, but in each spending package, or Executive Act, we are getting squeezed. The promise of a Green Energy Economy, by way of massive Federal subsidy, will mean higher taxes on energy prices, and fewer jobs. Once Cap and Trade is added to the energy mix we could end up with a malaise that will leave the country reeling with; fewer jobs, higher prices, massive inflation, punitive regulation, bureaucratic red-tape and higher and higher deficits. When will you represent the views of more Americans than the left-wing special interest groups, who benefit from your initiatives?

Policy aside many of your constituents feel that the U.S. is the greatest force for good on earth. We see no reason to apologize for who we are, or what we create, or for our prosperity. To have a President go to Europe and call our country 'conceited, dismissive and often derisive,' does not represent, the views of, many of your fellow citizens, neither does getting a rousing applause, when referring to the closure of Guantanamo Bay, and declaring 'Americans do not torture.' This statement implies that we did torture before you benevolent hand ended it. This may make you popular to the adoring fans of Europe, who didn't vote for or against you, but it does not reflect many of us at home, which is the U.S, in case you forgot.

We will remain the Greatest Country on earth, but the real question is, will we remain that way, because, or in spite of your administration. Remember that punitive taxes, and allegiance to a European elite power, is what we fought to liberate ourselves from, in the U.S. Revolution.

We call on you to do as you promised, represent us who did not vote for you, stop spending us into oblivion, while blaming the Bush administration for the deficit. Stop blaming the U.S. for the other countries' financial problems. Don't tax us into stagnation. Heeding these calls would represent all Americans.