Like Obama asked last night, I put together a quick letter to Sue Myrick. I know I could've gone to extreme lengths and given many more examples but, this one has stood out in my mind for a long time.
Honorable Sue Myrick,
Please consider doing your part to negotiate a deal with the democrats to raise the debt limit.
I've lived in the Charlotte area almost my entire life and am quite familiar with your politics. I hope you can look back and see some of your mistakes and realize the harm you're about to bring upon your country again by making another one.
Let me point out one of your mistakes in particular. Sometime in early 2003, while George W. Bush was ratcheting up to the war in Iraq, you were on "The John boy and billy Show" explaining why we had to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein. You said (paraphrasing) "if you knew what I know", speaking of the briefings about WMDs and mushroom clouds I suspect, "you'd understand why we have to do this".
This is only one of your costly mistakes but, by blindly following your party line, you enabled the waste of uncountable money surpassing a trillion dollars and many thousands of lives that continues to be a burden on our economy today.
Please use some common sense and an open mind and do the right thing. Convince yourself and your colleagues to talk with and come to an agreement with those on the other side of the isle to settle this standoff so we can move ahead and get this country moving forward and get people working again.
I pray that God will guide you,
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