Here's a letter I got form my useless hack, Senator Jeff Merkley...


Dear Hector,
I’m sure you’ve been hearing a lot about impeachment lately -- on the news, online, and maybe from your own friends and family.

As impeachment proceedings begin in the U.S. Congress, I wanted you to also hear directly from me as your representative in the United States Senate.

Impeachment is a grave step. It should never be used over political or policy differences, no matter how strong those disagreements may be. It must be reserved for the most weighty situations in which there is substantial evidence of serious lawbreaking or fundamental abuse of power.

Unfortunately, we are now at a moment where there is substantial evidence of both.

The presidency comes with awesome powers, and our Constitution and our entire system of government is designed to ensure that those powers are constrained by the rule of law.

There is substantial evidence that President Trump has violated those boundaries.

The Mueller report lays out extensive evidence of criminal wrongdoing by President Trump in four cases of obstruction of justice, including one case of witness tampering. More than one thousand former federal prosecutors have written to Congress stating that any ordinary American committing these acts would be indicted for felony crimes.

And now we are presented with substantial evidence that President Trump used his office to solicit the foreign government of Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. If true, this is an enormous abuse of power.

Our founders were deeply afraid of an imperial presidency where the President would begin to act outside the law. They guarded against that by giving the House of Representatives the power of impeachment, which is equivalent to an indictment, and the Senate the power to hold a trial following impeachment. Conviction requires a supermajority of two-thirds of the Senators. This guarantees that a conviction must have bi-partisan support.

As I ponder this moment, I keep thinking about the enormous responsibility Congress has to hold the President accountable to the rule of law. It is a responsibility that must be exercised without partisan taint. We must strive for a standard that would be applied equally regardless if a President is in one’s own party or in the opposing party.

I encourage all Oregonians to be engaged as we wrestle with the process before us. Read the key sections of the Mueller Report. Examine the whistleblower letter and the testimony it leads to. And feel free to share your thoughts by calling or writing my office.

While the House proceeds with the impeachment inquiry, I hope the Senate will turn to the many issues we face. Good legislation is awaiting action in the Senate on healthcare, housing, education, infrastructure, jobs, equality of opportunity, and carbon pollution. We would do the nation a real service to engage in debating and voting on the bills that address these issues.

If the House does act on impeachment and there is a Senate trial, I pledge as a Senate juror to work to ensure that the rules established for the trial ensure that the Senate and the American people get a complete picture of the evidence and the appropriate context to understand its significance. Moreover, I pledge to weigh that evidence carefully and conscientiously.

This will be a test of the rule of law and our system of government, and whether and how we rise to the occasion will have impacts on American government far into the future.

Impeachment is a step Congress should resolve to take only as a last resort, but we must be equally resolved to safeguard the principle that, in America, nobody is above the law.

All my best,
Jeff


I replied with a note that I found typos in their message. Here's my response...

I’ve read the Meuller report and I’ve read the call transcript and it’s nothing like what the media are reporting. I think you need to re-word your e-mail to read more like this…

We, as Democrats realize that we’re doomed to lose at the ballot box to President Donald J. Trump with our current crop of presidential candidates, and we’ve resorted to our last desperate measure of making up baseless charges to impeach The President.

President Donald J. Trump has demonstrated that in spite of intense opposition from both parties, his policies have led to record unemployment, record growth, record employment for blacks, Hispanics and women, and he’s embarrassed us so much, we’ll embarrass ourselves by using our propagandists in the mainstream media to lie to the American people in attempt to implant our own worthless do-nothing activist puppet who will further destroy American rights and ship jobs and technology overseas. We will continue to push The Green New Deal while ignoring China, Russia and India as global polluters.

We will also promise to keep America divided by touting class-warfare, racism, anti-Americanism, fear mongering and not solving the immigration issues in this country. We also promise to not work with The President of the United States on securing the border and passing the USMCA which would further help jobs and the economy. This would further deal us a blow for the 2020 elections and that’s more important to us than the health and well-being of the American people.

Sincerely,
Your dishonest, lying, Democratic political hack,
Jeff Merkley.

I won’t hold my breath though…

Tony B.

Nicely Done....

Where is my email/letter from Merkley????? I am an Oregon resident too....

That's okay if it were a paper letter I would only burn it, and an email from him tends to get deleted quickly as he is anti second amendment, pro Communism.

I have no use for him or Wyden.

nice typo correction there OP!!!

Merkley has expanded from being merely a fool and a tool AND a disappointment, into full tilt DNC zombie parasite. IMHO.

Thanks for taking the time to give him what-for, Tony. It'll fall on deaf ears, no doubt, but, still, thanks for speaking up.

You're welcome guys! I'm on fire right now!

They're pushing LGBT crap on our schools right now and attempting to keep it secretive. I re-activated my Facebook to join a parents group that didn't like the material that was being pushed on the kids.

I pointed out to the group that it was all political propaganda with links and proof and the liberal democrats in the group got butt hurt and got me kicked off the group.

The truth hurts; doesn't it?!

I brushed it off, but when I got this e-mail I was already feeling feisty so I unloaded on him.

Tony.

Giveum hell Tony....

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I re-activated my Facebook to join a parents group that didn't like the material that was being pushed on the kids.

I pointed out to the group that it was all political propaganda with links and proof and the liberal democrats in the group got butt hurt and got me kicked off the group.

WTF? That makes no sense, did they start the FB group because the material being pushed wasn't far left enough?

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Originally posted by lizardman_u:
Where is my email/letter from Merkley????? I am an Oregon resident too....

That's okay if it were a paper letter I would only burn it, and an email from him tends to get deleted quickly as he is anti second amendment, pro Communism.

I have no use for him or Wyden.

Don't feel left out. You can send him a love letter here...

Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov

Tony.

Awesome! Who's Hector?

Me. Tony is my middle name that I’ve gone by since childhood. I didn’t know my name was Hector until fifth grade. Benny is the name the military gave me (my last name shortened).

Tony.

You may not get a Christmas card this year from this jerk.

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
You may not get a Christmas card this year from this jerk.

But the Stooges from California may just receive a plagiarized version of Benny's email.

Great response, Tony.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
You may not get a Christmas card this year from this jerk.

But the Stooges from California may just receive a plagiarized version of Benny's email.

Haha.

And yes, perfect response, Tony.

Very nicely done.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
You may not get a Christmas card this year from this jerk.

But the Stooges from California may just receive a plagiarized version of Benny's email.

Nothing would make me happier than to see my letter plagiarized and viral! Feel free to borrow and change names as you see fit!

You saw it first here on SF!

Tony.

Awesome!! I live in Oregon and cant stand them assholes.

Excellent letter. Too bad more people like you don’t take the time to do things like this.

Zing!

That was awesome Tony!

Hell yeah.