This is an open letter to all the men and women who currently hold positions of power in the US Congress. It is especially aimed at members of the Democratic Party, many of whom owe their current seats to the November 2006 elections. I’ve always held a sneaking suspicion that some of you come to the Democratic Underground to get a feel for our mood. Well...you're about to get mine. Please feel free to pass it on to everyone else.

Since the beginning of the year, the Democratic majority has been able to accomplish a few good things, but have sidestepped, caved or otherwise ignored the two major items that we, the voters, told you we wanted.

When we, the people of this country voted you into power, it was with the clear understanding that we wanted two major things accomplished. One was we wanted out of Iraq. The troops must be brought home. We wanted no more of our young men and women dying for this pointless, idiotic war. We wanted no more blood spilt over a lie.

The second thing we wanted was Bush and Cheney brought to justice, impeached for the high crimes and misdemeanors committed against this country. For the last six years, we have endured:

Bush and his cabal demolishing our economy.
The looting of our treasury for his war.
Watched as the price of basic necessities rose in price.
Bush giving tax cuts to the rich in a time of war.
Wire taps on our phones, our e-mails being read, snooping into every aspect of our lives, all in the name of flushing out supposed terrorists.

We complained as Bush:

Tried to privatize Social Security.
Let corporations take good jobs out of the country.
Commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby, even though he once said he would hold those who released the name of Valerie Plame--a CIA operative--accountable.
Shredded the very essence of our beloved Constitution.
Suspended Habeas Corpus against supposed terrorists, in effect taking that right away from all of us.
Continued an illegal war in which close to four thousand of our fellow Americans have died.
Stood by while thousands of our fellow citizens fought for their lives in the worst natural disaster we’ve ever seen, only to congratulate the head of FEMA for “doing a heck of job!”

I realize I’m glossing over innumerable other crimes this administration has committed, but there have been so many that it makes my head hurt just trying to remember them all. In addition, as every day goes by, new crimes are being discovered. It just never ends with this man or his people.

Which brings me to the main reason I’m writing this; I’m tired. Tired of being angry. Tired of the daily stupidity of Bush and everyone connected to him. Tired of the queasy, burning feeling in my stomach that happens every day after reading of some new outrage committed by this administration and, everyone connected to it.

It’s time to end this feeling.

I use to be a happy person. I had a decent job and life. I was someone who loved her country and was mostly proud of the good things America did here and around the world. That being said, I’m not so naive as to think we had a perfect country, but I’ve always felt that with a bit of effort, we could change any wrongs and make them right.

Well, my life has changed a lot over the last six years. I no longer feel that way. I no longer recognize the America I live in.

We need leaders in Washington now more than any other time in our history. So once again, I say to my elected officials; I’m tired and damned angry. Angry enough to make every Democrat in Washington a promise. If you, our current leaders, continue to ignore us—to disregard the very people who put you where you are today; if you can’t or won’t do what it needed to fix the ills plaguing this nation, I and others like me will elect people who will. We will make sure your time in office is a short one.

Of that, you can be sure. I and every other angry voter promise!