Ann Marie Buerkle, Where Do You Stand?

This is to you personally, very personally, Ann Marie:

Shutting down the government tomorrow is a bad idea. Make no mistake, if that happens John Boehner and the Tea Party pressure groups will be to blame, and you will surely be blamed in the next election.

I used to think that Tea Party folks were arrested at the developmental level of "black and white" thinking. Now I think that would be preferable to the monochrome thinking of Tea Party extremists.

I find it shameful that tea partiers in Washington were cheering yesterday at the call to close the government. I wonder who will be complaining the loudest when the shutdown hits their pocketbooks?

I surely hope you, Ann Marie, do not expect to be paid if you are a part of this catastrophe.

Look around and you will see that the vast majority of citizens in this country do not want a government shutdown. You and all of your fellow Congresspeople were entrusted to act with the best interests of all of us in mind regardless of the margin of your win.

The enormous economic damage that a shutdown will cause will be laying right at your doorstep when next you go outside.